The Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Ms Hadiza Usman, on Wednesday said that the port concession agreement would be reviewed.
Usman said this in Calabar at the commencement of a three-day facility tour of the Calabar port.
The managing director went on tour of concessioned facilities such as : Intels Logistics Services Nigeria Ltd, Ecomarine Terminals and Shoreline Logistic Ltd.
She said that the review of the concession agreement would have to be carried out in order to put all players on the same page.
The managing director expressed concern that there have been violations of some of the terms of the concession agreements..
She spoke against the backdrop of many complaints by concessionaires in the port.
Usman said that the concession agreement should be adhered to.
[b]
All the three major operators in the port lamented over inactivity, saying that they were experiencing 25 per cent capacity utilisation in the port.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that 26 terminals across the country’s major ports were concessioned in 2006 by both NPA and the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE).
The General Manager, ECM Terminals Ltd, Mr Kingsley Iheanacho, said that the terminal no longer earned revenue from yard operations.
He said that container vessels and clearing agents were not coming to the port.
Iheanacho said that the terminal was just barely managing to remain afloat and operating skeletal services.
“Presently, we are having 25 per cent utilisation and that is what Calabar port is all about,’’ the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) quotes him as saying.
He lamented that the management of the terminal spent a lot of money monthly to maintain equipment.
“We were assured dredging would be completed by December 2006 but this has not been done,’’ Iheanacho said.
Welcoming the new managing director, the Port Manager of Calabar Port, Mr Oluseyi Ogunbdele, said the port management and the General Manager, Eastern Ports, had been engaging stakeholders on how to boost container traffic in the port.
He recalled that when he assumed duty in Sept. 2015, he inherited some challenges ranging from the relocation of passenger boat operations from the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) jetty to shoreline terminal.
Ogundele also spoke about the problems of power supply and congestion along the port access road.
“Today, passenger boat operation is running smoothly at shoreline logistics terminal; public power supply had been restored; and the heavy traffic gridlock along the port access road has been contained.[/b]
“Again, through the initiative of local port management, the wreckage of a ship “Hope of ECOWAS’’ which has been a long-standing limitation to port operation has been removed.
“Other wreck such as `Cala Niger’, is also on the verge of being removed,’’ the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) quotes him as saying.
He said that other challenges confronting the port management include completion of the dredging of the Calabar channel and provision of modern equipped tugs and pilot cutters.
Ogundele also called for guaranteed security in the port and its channels.
He complained about erosion menace within the port and at Harbour Village and the bad state of the common user roads within the concessioned terminals and the entire port.
On revenue in the first half of the year, the port manager said that the Nigerian National National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is indebted to NPA an amount of N152.8 million.
He said that from January to June 2016, the port generated N450.9 and 7.5 million dollars, while N106.9 million 6.2 million dollars were collected in the same period of 2015.
According to Ogundele, in the first half 216 vessels entered the port with 1.8 million tonnes against 165 vessels with 2.1 million tonnes in the mih period of 2015.
He said that this showed 30.91 per cent increase in vessel traffic and 15.1 per cent decrease in Gross Registered Tonnage (GRT).2
“A total of 1.0 million tonnes of cargo was handled during the first half in the port compared to 1.1 million tonnes recorded in the same period of 2015, indicating 10.29 per cent decrease. (NAN)

http://leadership.ng/business/545636/npa-to-review-port-concession-agreement

Ok

- I thought APC informed Nigerians that only Lagos Port is the only functional port generating income for FG
- Since the last government failed to dredge the Calabar channel, when shall APC commence dredging operations?
- Even the wreckage of a ship “Hope of ECOWAS’’ has been removed. But we were told that PDP-led FG did not invest in that port.

They just rode to power with fat lies. Useless party and their propaganda.

Nonsense

Afonjas don't travel outside Lagos, so what is ogundele doing in calabar and at the eastern port?

Afonjas always reaping from where they did not sow.

that is why they faint at the mention of biafra.

Keneking:
Ok

- I thought APC informed Nigerians that only Lagos Port is the only functional port generating income for FG
- Since the last government failed to dredge the Calabar channel, when shall APC commence dredging operations?
- Even the wreckage of a ship “Hope of ECOWAS’’ has been removed. But we were told that PDP-led FG did not invest in that port.

They just rode to power with fat lies. Useless party and their propaganda.

Nonsense

Did u read were it was said port concession agreement would be reviewed??
Do u even understand what that's means??

I pray it starts full operational services, atleast Lagos port will be relieved from some containers and some services.
But will Lagos like it?

NATIONALPASTOR:
Afonjas don't travel outside Lagos, so what is ogundele doing in calabar and at the eastern port?

Afonjas always reaping from where they did not sow.

that is why they faint at the mention of biafra.

I pray it starts full operational services, atleast Lagos port will be relieved from some containers and some services.
But will Lagos like it?

NATIONALPASTOR:
Afonjas don't travel outside Lagos, so what is ogundele doing in calabar and at the eastern port?

Afonjas always reaping from where they did not sow.

that is why they faint at the mention of biafra.

Yet OSU elders were the slaves that OBJ was using to actualise his 3rd term agenda to continue in Aso rock?

Dem swear lack of sense for una?

Pls when are u getting your biabia abi una never suffer oppression reach?

hopeforcharles:

I pray it starts full operational services, atleast Lagos port will be relieved from some containers and some services.
But will Lagos like it?

And pray, can you tell why Lagos with all its greatness, opportunities and possibilities won't like it?

LORDOFTHEOSU:


And pray, can you tell why Lagos with all its greatness, opportunities and possibilities won't like it?

Because the revenue it derives from there will reduce drastically, because a lot of the importers are easterns,
Which state will want it's internally generated revenue t
drop.

hopeforcharles:

Because the revenue it derives from there will reduce drastically, because a lot of the importers are easterns,
Which state will want it's internally generated revenue t
drop.

but of course

Have you heard of customs? Do you know the FG controls it and the revenue it generates?

What about Nigerian Ports Authority? Do you know the FG controls it and the revenues it generates?

Do you know NIMASA? Do you know it and its revenues also belong to the FG?

Can you tell me which revenue the Lagos state govt makes from the ports? Then when you're through, you now calculate the pressures and stress exerted on the infrastructure in Lagos and how they compensate

This is good. We need all the ports to be viable.

We need as many jobs as can be created. We also need to decongest those Lagos ports.

Keneking:
Ok

- I thought APC informed Nigerians that only Lagos Port is the only functional port generating income for FG
- Since the last government failed to dredge the Calabar channel, when shall APC commence dredging operations?
- Even the wreckage of a ship “Hope of ECOWAS’’ has been removed. But we were told that PDP-led FG did not invest in that port.

They just rode to power with fat lies. Useless party and their propaganda.

Nonsense

It still a mystery to me that you are living your zombie team to join the Wailers!
Am still watching you enjoy your probation period because we are yet to properly screen you!

Wailers Deputy Assistant Vice Chairman Southeast!

About time

Even if the FG dredges Calabar, double dredges Onne, builds a new port in Akwa Ibom, Brass and Bonny Island...... Igbos will still not leave the West.
Their excuse that the busiest port is in Lagos is just so flimsy. When you see them in such places as Abeokuta and Benin you will have to ask yourself if the seaports are the reason they are also there.
Igbos you can't survive without the rest of Nigeria, you people should just admit it.

Hmm!

Keneking:
Ok

- I thought APC informed Nigerians that only Lagos Port is the only functional port generating income for FG
- Since the last government failed to dredge the Calabar channel, when shall APC commence dredging operations?
- Even the wreckage of a ship “Hope of ECOWAS’’ has been removed. But we were told that PDP-led FG did not invest in that port.

They just rode to power with fat lies. Useless party and their propaganda.

Nonsense

You lack knowledge and your unwillingness to learn is so glaring with your comment after reading. Everything is politics to people like you, reason we're not moving forward.. Concession agreements will be reviewed was what I read, you obviously skipped it to the part you could make innuendos about

Josmila:


You lack knowledge and your unwillingness to learn is so glaring with your comment after reading. Everything is politics to people like you, reason we're not moving forward.. Concession agreements will be reviewed was what I read, you obviously skipped it to the part you could make innuendos about

Which concession agreement reviews? Those affected or the entire agreement covering entire sea ports operations in Nigeria?

Keneking:
Ok

- I thought APC informed Nigerians that only Lagos Port is the only functional port generating income for FG
- Since the last government failed to dredge the Calabar channel, when shall APC commence dredging operations?
- Even the wreckage of a ship “Hope of ECOWAS’’ has been removed. But we were told that PDP-led FG did not invest in that port.

They just rode to power with fat lies. Useless party and their propaganda.

Nonsense

Must you talk for talking sake....Why not keep shut instead of saying what you don't know
Your level of ignorance is beyond my comprehension

This good at least let's see the excuse OSU will give for leaving their ravaged land to swest!

realjoker:
The Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Ms Hadiza Usman, on Wednesday said that the port concession agreement would be reviewed.
Usman said this in Calabar at the commencement of a three-day facility tour of the Calabar port.
The managing director went on tour of concessioned facilities such as : Intels Logistics Services Nigeria Ltd, Ecomarine Terminals and Shoreline Logistic Ltd.
She said that the review of the concession agreement would have to be carried out in order to put all players on the same page.
The managing director expressed concern that there have been violations of some of the terms of the concession agreements..
She spoke against the backdrop of many complaints by concessionaires in the port.
Usman said that the concession agreement should be adhered to.
[b]
All the three major operators in the port lamented over inactivity, saying that they were experiencing 25 per cent capacity utilisation in the port.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that 26 terminals across the country’s major ports were concessioned in 2006 by both NPA and the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE).
The General Manager, ECM Terminals Ltd, Mr Kingsley Iheanacho, said that the terminal no longer earned revenue from yard operations.
He said that container vessels and clearing agents were not coming to the port.
Iheanacho said that the terminal was just barely managing to remain afloat and operating skeletal services.
“Presently, we are having 25 per cent utilisation and that is what Calabar port is all about,’’ the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) quotes him as saying.
He lamented that the management of the terminal spent a lot of money monthly to maintain equipment.
“We were assured dredging would be completed by December 2006 but this has not been done,’’ Iheanacho said.
Welcoming the new managing director, the Port Manager of Calabar Port, Mr Oluseyi Ogunbdele, said the port management and the General Manager, Eastern Ports, had been engaging stakeholders on how to boost container traffic in the port.
He recalled that when he assumed duty in Sept. 2015, he inherited some challenges ranging from the relocation of passenger boat operations from the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) jetty to shoreline terminal.
Ogundele also spoke about the problems of power supply and congestion along the port access road.
“Today, passenger boat operation is running smoothly at shoreline logistics terminal; public power supply had been restored; and the heavy traffic gridlock along the port access road has been contained.[/b]
“Again, through the initiative of local port management, the wreckage of a ship “Hope of ECOWAS’’ which has been a long-standing limitation to port operation has been removed.
“Other wreck such as `Cala Niger’, is also on the verge of being removed,’’ the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) quotes him as saying.
He said that other challenges confronting the port management include completion of the dredging of the Calabar channel and provision of modern equipped tugs and pilot cutters.
Ogundele also called for guaranteed security in the port and its channels.
He complained about erosion menace within the port and at Harbour Village and the bad state of the common user roads within the concessioned terminals and the entire port.
On revenue in the first half of the year, the port manager said that the Nigerian National National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is indebted to NPA an amount of N152.8 million.
He said that from January to June 2016, the port generated N450.9 and 7.5 million dollars, while N106.9 million 6.2 million dollars were collected in the same period of 2015.
According to Ogundele, in the first half 216 vessels entered the port with 1.8 million tonnes against 165 vessels with 2.1 million tonnes in the mih period of 2015.
He said that this showed 30.91 per cent increase in vessel traffic and 15.1 per cent decrease in Gross Registered Tonnage (GRT).2
“A total of 1.0 million tonnes of cargo was handled during the first half in the port compared to 1.1 million tonnes recorded in the same period of 2015, indicating 10.29 per cent decrease. (NAN)

http://leadership.ng/business/545636/npa-to-review-port-concession-agreement

wrong picture OP...make use of google sometimes, it elps

Keneking:


Which concession agreement reviews? Those affected or the entire agreement covering entire sea ports operations in Nigeria?

The new NPA chief is barely a month old in office, begin your criticisms when she's not leaving up to her billing, don't put the cart before the horse sir. Peace

buharisbae:
This good at least let's see the excuse OSU will give for leaving their ravaged land to swest!

Which part of Nigeria are u from because I don't get it. When Igbos are bashing Yoroubas you join them in bashing vice versa. Same way when its the Nothern. Let it not be that you are an ethnic LovePeddler have been hearing about.

Which one is osu and afonja... Seun you've gotta do something quick to this forum.

Its just a hate section these days..filled with miscreants who can diss each other online while politicians of all tribes collaborate to loot us offline.

Do something about those using this platform to spread hate and tribalism..

Enough said... 50% of Nigerians dont think straight.. This i know.. But then spare the rod and spoil the child right??


Ok...bye!

hopeforcharles:

Because the revenue it derives from there will reduce drastically, because a lot of the importers are easterns,
Which state will want it's internally generated revenue t
drop.

Guy, you are so ignorant. FYI LAGOS DOES NOT GET A DIME OF ITS IGR FROM ITS PORTS COZ ALL THE REVENUE FROM THE PORTS, LAND AND AIR GO TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT!!! Hope you get it now? Geez, you people's hatred for LAgos and the SW blinds you to common sense and simple logic. SMH!

Josmila:


You lack knowledge and your unwillingness to learn is so glaring with your comment after reading. Everything is politics to people like you, reason we're not moving forward.. Concession agreements will be reviewed was what I read, you obviously skipped it to the part you could make innuendos about

shut up, if every tin isn't politics wat ar de? ur APC govt n bubu is a fraud, Notin gud is happening in Nigeria since de took ova.

nonsense.

okay

OoduaVanguard:


Guy, you are so ignorant. FYI LAGOS DOES NOT GET A DIME OF ITS IGR FROM ITS PORTS COZ ALL THE REVENUE FROM THE PORTS, LAND AND AIR GO TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT!!! Hope you get it now? Geez, you people's hatred for LAgos and the SW blinds you to common sense and simple logic. SMH!

All right I might be ignorant in this, I give up I never claimed I know everything, besides there is a way the government earns a revenue from the port, ask the people in charge, it earn from business activities that are affiliated to the ports and it's environs, so stop been a Dundee

The port should be dregded already.

Any container meant for south-east , south-south , even some part of north-east need not come to lagos and constitute nuisance, adding to traffic gridlock, and toppling

over bridges causing deaths.

LORDOFTHEOSU:


but of course

Have you heard of customs? Do you know the FG controls it and the revenue it generates?

What about Nigerian Ports Authority? Do you know the FG controls it and the revenues it generates?

Do you know NIMASA? Do you know it and its revenues also belong to the FG?

Can you tell me which revenue the Lagos state govt makes from the ports? Then when you're through, you now calculate the pressures and stress exerted on the infrastructure in Lagos and how they compensate

You haven't heard that there are some businesses that are close to the port who pays the state government taxes? If you say the state government is not earning directly it's earning indirectly.