Dala Dry Port, Solution To Nigeria’s Seaports – Chairman 

Following the Commissioning of the multi-Billion Naira Dala Dry Port in Kano,  Chairman of Inland Dry Port, Alhaji Abubakar Sahabu Bawuro, says the Port is the solution to the problems faced by  the Nation’s  seaports.
He said the Port will introduce cargo tracking and door-to-door delivery of goods and services.
Bawuro, who stated this to newsmen shortly after the commissioning of the Port by President Muhammad Buhari in Kano, said the port is prepared technically and physically with interested partners to boost businesses in Kano, Nigeria and Africa at large.
He urged the media to partner with the management in ensuring efficiency, emphasising that the place is not a monument but a business venture.
Earlier, Managing Director of the Inland Dry Port, Ahmad Rabiu, described the Port as the first international inland dry port  in the country where cargoes will go anywhere in the world from Kano State, without follow-up to any seaports across Nigeria.
He said  the Federal Government under President Muhammad Buhari has given all the support required for the take up, noting that they have met the requirement on infrastructure and other critical amenities.
The MD said the stacking area has the capacity of containing 20 thousand units of containers before moving anywhere at any time, noting that the area covers 6 hectares of land and the management is willing to add more.
According to Rabiu, all the requirements needed for clearance by businessmen, customs duty will be done right from Kano without follow-up to any seaport in Nigeria.
He said the success of the inland dry port is a joint venture between the state government, business community, regulatory agencies and Federal Government of Nigeria and to make business in Kano and its neighborhood more competitive.

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