The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), said it facilitated a total of 3.5 million metric tonnes of export trade through the nation’s seaports in the first six months of 2023. LEADERSHIP reports.InformationGuideNigeria
Speaking during a panel session on the export of non-oil products at the 2023 Zenith Bank International Trade Seminar, in Lagos, on Tuesday, managing director of NPA, Mohammed Bello-Koko, said that NPA has been recording growth in export since 2019
According to him, in 2019, the ports recorded about 2.8 million metric tonnes of export, and it increased to 3.8 million metric tonnes in 2020.
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Live, Study and Work in Canada. No Payment is Required! Hurry Now click here to Apply >> Immigrate to CanadaAccording to him, export volume grew in 2021 to 3.79 million metric tonnes, and over 5.1 million metric tonnes in 2022.
He said the NPA is working closely with other government agencies such as the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) and Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) to ensure that imports and exports are cleared out of the port faster.JAMB Result
“We need the Customs to reduce the time it takes to scan and inspect cargo because the faster it takes, the earlier the importer and exporters take their goods,” he said.
Bello-Koko said the collaboration with the Nigeria Customs Service helped the NPA in achieving the feat as he expressed optimism that the agency will achieve more than it attained in previous years.
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“NPA’s responsibility is to handle the logistics issue as relates to the delivery of cargo to ports, reviewing the cargo and also ensuring that it is loaded for the voyage. We encouraged the terminal operators to create hinterland aggregation points and dedicated spaces for export within the port terminals, but we need to realise that the ports are very small and therefore there are capacity issues.JAMB Portal
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“So, what we did was to create export processing terminals and the export processing terminals are one-stop shops where you consolidate, test, weigh, and pack it and then go straight into the ports. What the Customs did for us is to create an export command. This means there are individuals responsible for all export problems that you can relate with,” he said.
“Don’t forget that shipping activities actually pick from the middle of the year, so you can perceive that we are going to achieve more than what we got last year,” he added.
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Live, Study and Work in Canada. No Payment is Required! Hurry Now click here to Apply >> Immigrate to CanadaConfirming the growth in export trade, executive director/CEO of Nigeria Export Promotion Council (NEPC), Ezra Yakusak, said, Nigeria had a non-oil export performance of $4.8 billion in 2022, which is the largest since the creation of NEPC in 1976.NYSC Portal
“We exported 214 products which means that Nigeria has huge potential. About 1,122 companies exported to 122 countries. Last year, there was an increase of about 39.6 percent in the export of manufactured products, meaning that Nigerian export is changing from being mostly raw materials to becoming processed or manufactured products,” he said.
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