NPA Wants Port Users To Evacuate Cargoes By Rail

The Managing Direc
tor, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Mrs Hadiza Usman, has urged port users to use rail transportation in evacuating their cargoes to facilitate trade.
Usman made the plea during her tour of Western ports in Lagos, on Wednesday.
She said that roads had been over stretched with too many cargoes.
“It is still cheaper and less risky to convey cargoes via rail, ” she said.
The managing director, who held a brief closed-door management meeting on arrival at the Lagos Port Complex (LPC), Apapa, conducted an on-the-spot assessment of the workings of the various concessioned terminals.
At the APM terminals, she advised the management to rehabilitate the rail line to facilitate movement of cargoes to the hinterlands.
“We are going to liaise with the Nigeria Railway Corporation to see how the old rails would be replaced.
“It is our aspiration to see that cargoes, both containarised and bulk, get to their destinations via the rail.
“We have a mandate to facilitate marine trade as one of the ways of increasing public revenue.
“Therefore, we will partner with every organisation that can aid us in achieving that,” he said..
At the ENL Consortium Ltd., she advised the management, represented by the company’s Director, Mr Mark Walsh, to always ensure good work ethics.
Walsh was pleased with the message of the managing director concerning the use of rails.