Customs Decries Low Business In PH Port

The Nigerian Customs
Service (NCS) Area One Command, Port Harcourt, has expressed worries over the low level of business activities currently witnessed at the Port Harcourt Port, which they say is seriously affecting the revenue generation of the command.
Speaking while interacting with The Tide in his office in Port Harcourt, the Public Relations Officer of the Command, Mr Samuel Harry, said that what has become of revenue generation  at the command is worse than previous years.
He said that the efforts being made by the present Comptroller of the area, Mr D.G. Kuffi in ensuring that business at the command flourishes, which had yielded results in the past three to four years, has now dwindled.
According to him, the command exceeded the revenue target given to it by the Federal Government in years 2011 and 2012, but that events turned between 2013 and the present year where revenue targets could not be met.
The command’s spokes man said that one of the major issues that has affected the revenue profile of the command is the policy on rice, where high duty if placed on rice by the federal government.
“You can see with your eyes without being told that the port is dry. It is only frozen foods like fish, butimen mostly that have kept business at the port still going, and that is the reality right now in this port,” he stated.

Corlins Walter