Onne Port Assures Terminal Operators Of Improved Standards

The management of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Onne Port, has assured terminal operators and other stakeholders of continuous improvement on the standards of the port.
Port Manager, Onne. Alhassan Ismaila Abubakar, gave the assurance while addressing participants at the first quarter Safety Committee meeting held at the Port Manager’s Conference Hall at Onne Port last Wednesday.
He expressed satisfaction with the NPA for sustaining the tempo of enhanced safety and environmental standards at the port.
NPA, he said, was steadily on top of attaining appropriate safety standards in all its operations.
He urged terminal operators and other stakeholders to key into the vision of the authority to maintain high level of standards.
“At NPA, we are working to attain ISO 9001 and OH SAS 18001 certificate. By this, we are setting the agenda, we are also renewing our procedures, moving on to enhance Ease of Doing Business at the Port”, he said.
Abubakar assured the operators that there would be numerous benefits for NPA and all the stakeholders in the area of job execution, creating an organisation and wide performance with the standards of ISO..
Earlier, the Chief Port Safety Officer, Onne Port,  Engr. Sule Wunti, had urged the stakeholders to review the performance of the port in the area of safety compliance.
He commended the NPA management as well as management of the Intel’s Services for  recording improvement in safety within the period.
“Intel’s did not record any incident within the period. I commend them and urged others to emulate them”, Wunti said.

Chinedu Wosu