The Chairman of the Association of Nigeria Licensed Customs
\nAgent (ANLCA), Mr. John Ofobike,\u00a0 wants
\nthe Federal government to appoint a commercial regulator to oversee the
\noperations of concessionaires in the Maritime sector.<\/p>\n
The Chairman who made the call in Lagos recently said the
\ncommercial regulator is responsible for ensuring that port users operated
\nwithin the ambit of the law as well as the protection of the facilities.<\/p>\n
Ofobike said: \u201cThe concessionaires are business men that
\ncome here to make profit; somebody must be there to regulate them.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe concessionaires are having a field day with no one to
\nmoderate their excesses; they are maximising profits at the expense of quality
\nservices\u201d.<\/p>\n
According to him, they lack modern equipment thereby making
\nit difficult to clear cargo quickly.<\/p>\n
He said that the government owed it as a duty to protect
\nNigerians by appointing a commercial regulator to protect the rights of
\nshippers and other stakeholders.<\/p>\n
The ANLCA Chairman regretted that it was not possible to
\nachieve 48-hour cargo clearance because of the absence of a commercial
\nregulator.<\/p>\n
He lauded the government\u2019s good intentions in bringing the
\nconcessionaires to enhance operations at the ports but claimed that they were
\nuncooperative.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am not totally against port concession; at least there is
\na decrease in corruption but when there is insufficient manpower on the part of
\nthe terminal operators and they want to save money and use bad equipment then
\nsomething must be done,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Ofobike also urged the government to review the rates
\nimporters paid to clear on cargo.<\/p>\n
He listed other issues which needed the government\u2019s
\nattention to include the lack of quality services, insufficient manpower and
\nbad access roads to the terminals.<\/p>\n
The Chairman said that the concession of the ports had not
\nimpacted positively on his association because of delays in clearing cargoes.<\/p>\n
\u201cPort concession has affected my pocket because there is non-availability of trucks to carry containers from the ports; the vehicles are scarce because there is no place to drop empty containers after the load in them has been discharged\u201d, Ofobike said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Chairman of the Association of Nigeria Licensed Customs Agent (ANLCA), Mr. John Ofobike,\u00a0 wants the Federal government to appoint a commercial regulator to oversee the operations of concessionaires in the Maritime sector. The Chairman who made the call in Lagos recently said the commercial regulator is responsible for ensuring that port users operated within […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maritime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}