NPA Tasks Stakeholders On Ports’ Facilities Protection

Stakeholders have
been urged to protect facilities across the nation’s ports.
Speaking to newsmen in Calabar on Friday, the General Manager, Eastern ports of the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA), Mr  Joshua Asanga, said stakeholders’ support is relevant in ensuring that facilities under the Eastern ports are protected to ensure businesses at the ports thrive.
Asanga said there was need for adequate utilization of the facilities at the port as a business hub for states in the North Eastern flank of the country.
He said facilities at the ports in Calabar were usually and regularly patronized by local craft and light vessels from countries of Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and Sao Tome and Principe and other countries.
He said proactive measures had been taken to assess the state of facilities at the port to ensure that commerce and business at the Calabar port thrive.
The General Manager said that the initiative to assess facilities at the port was basically to synergise and identify with all stakeholders that interact with the usage of port facilities in the course of their business.
He said that, the port management would collaborate with other agencies of government at the Calabar port to exchange information, show commitment and live up to expectation in its responsibilities to the various stakeholders.
He added that the port management could think in isolation but work genuinely in concert with other stakeholders   to avoid anything going wrong with the port facilities.