Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) have pledged to boost exports and facilitate trade. They renewed their synergy when NPA’s Managing Director, Mohammed Bello-Koko visited Customs’ Acting Comptroller General, Bashir Adewale, at Customs Headquarters in Abuja. The meeting focused on ease of export processing by eliminating procedural bottlenecks causing delays affecting competitiveness of Nigerian goods, especially agro-allied …

The Federal Government on Friday inaugurated Bollard Pull Tug Boats (vessels) at the Lagos ports acquired by the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA). Justifying the need for the unveiling of the new vessels, NPA Managing Director/CEO, Mohammed Bello Koko said the government was driven by the need to provide efficient domestic cargo needs, win back transit cargo hitherto lost to neighbours …

Baring any urgent intervention from the management of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), dockworkers in Lagos seaports appears set to truncate normal operations at the AP Moller Terminal (APMT). The marine workers angst against the foremost terminal operators is not unconnected with the inability of the two bodies to agree on a mutually acceptable condition of service for the mariners who …