The Nigerian Shippers' Council (NSC) has vowed to take urgent actions to streamline export procedures, promote ease of documentation
The Nigerian Shippers' Council has vowed to take urgent actions to streamline export procedures, promote ease of documentation for exporters and lead the removal of 4,837 overdue export containers abandoned at Apapa port for years.* Shipping lines to evacuate 2,752 containers in five days
Akutah announced that the Council would organise a stakeholder engagement to bring every player in the value chain together to address the complexity of export regulations that have led to these delays and congestion at the ports. He also noted that terminal operations are hindered by repeated handling of export boxes which remain unshipped due to incomplete documentation. Daniel said the terminals have been advocating for the evacuation of these trapped export containers and had received commitments from shipping lines, including Maersk, CMA CGA, and Zim, to move about 2,752 export containers out of the port within the next five days.
“Most of these containers arrive at the port as ‘good to go,’ but only when they reach the port do Customs and other authorities discover some missing elements, which prevents the shipping line from loading them,” he explained. He emphasised that service providers, the Shippers’ Council, Customs, the Nigerian Ports Authority, and other stakeholders need to collaborate to improve the export process in Nigerian ports.
The National Council of Managing Directors of Licensed Customs Agents has called on President Bola Tinubu to urgently reform the clearance process for unentered and overtime goods at Nigeria's ports and government warehouse in Ikorodu, Lagos
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