…As it lifts suspension order on 4 shipping firms
The Management of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has stated that it’s desirous of sustaining the existing collaboration between it and the Army College of Logistics with the view to ensure that we benefit from the logistics experience of the college.
This is as the Authority has ordered the restoration of services to the four shipping Companies whose operations were suspended for their failure to comply with the directive of acquiring and operating holding bays for their containers.
NPA had suspended Maersk line, Cosco Shipping, APS and Lansal for breaches on prevailing port regulations.
Speaking when the team of army logistics led by the Commandant of the college, Major General Richard Duru paid a working visit to the Management of the NPA, the Executive Director Engineering and Technical Services, Prof Idris Abubakar said “in order to standardize operations at the nation’s seaports, the Authority would tap into the world of knowledge of the logistics professionals of the Nigerian army”.
Professor Abubakar, who represented the Managing Director, Hadiza Bala Usman, offered a common area of confluence of understanding and information sharing to necessitate basic solutions to questions requiring answer in the dual-collaboration involving both agencies of government.
Earlier in his presentation, the Commandant of the Army College of Logistics, Gen. Duru said that being a crucial hub for national logistics supply chain, the NPA deserves support from all and sundry with the view to ensuring that necessary variables are deployed expectedly.
He said the Army College of Logistics would be ready to partner with the NPA and other government agencies in the area of offering training facilities of repute manpower development to employees thereby contributing most meaningful in enhancing the logistics at the Ports and beyond.
Furthermore, the Commandant commended the various successes recorded by the Hadiza Bala Usman led NPA Management and expressed the optimism that it is expected that the Management would surpass greater expectations placed on them by stakeholders.
On safety and security, the Commandant opined that nothing should be allowed to mortgage societal safety adding that the issue of conflict, peace and harmony are amongst the art of societal living that are prioritized into the front burner so as to safeguard the society and contribute effectively to the Ease of Doing Business across the nation in line with International Best Practices
