₦airaland Forum

Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has embarked on operational and investment campaign tour of Onne and Rivers Port complexes to enable them complete profitably.

This was in continuation of its resolve to galvanized the port concessionaires and terminal operators into increasing their in-country investments on infrastructure equipment.

The Managing Director of the authority, Dr Abubakar Dantsoho said on Thursday that his visit to the ports was coming on the heels of the current administration’s readiness to deepen Nigeria’s competitiveness in vessel and cargo traffic to match the needs of Nigeria’s huge population of over 200 million inhabitants.

The tour covered BRAWAL Oil Services Ltd, Onne Multipurpose Terminal, INTELS, INDORAMA,West African Container Terminal (WACT) and NOTORE and the terminals at Rivers Port Complex, Port Harcourt.

Dantsoho explained that with the quantum of investments our maritime neighbours, especially along the West & Central African Coast are attracting, Nigerian ports could only stay competitive if they redouble their investment drive by providing requisite infrastructure and equipment to attract the sizes of vessels that scale up Nigerian cargo throughput that would adequately serve the huge population.

He added: “As far as this management is concerned we have the mandate of the Honourable Minister of Marine & Blue Economy Adegboyega Oyetola to create the enablers for increased investment, and we are poised to do just that.

“Let me seize this moment to reiterate my earlier plea to investors to take maximum advantage of the investor-friendliness of His Excellency President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to infuse greater Investment and be assured of guaranteed return on investment.”

The managing director, who was recently elected as the first ever Nigerian President of the Port Management Association of West & Central Africa (PMAWCA) added that the reality of Nigerian ports processing 2 million containers of cargoes to service a population of over 200 million was an anomaly that must be urgently addressed through deployment of huge investments.

Asgard73:
Believe APC and believe a rat can fly..

Seeing is believing … stories are propaganda for their people

Lanretoye:
do you even believe in yourself?,some terribly pessimistic people.

Lanretoye:
do you even believe in yourself?,some terribly pessimistic people.

Hankim:
Only a fool will believe APC and we know where you belong as a person

Asgard73:
Believe APC and believe a rat can fly..

Seeing is believing … stories are propaganda for their people

EmperorCaesar:
If one would have to believe a random comment online like yours over an FG report, then that person isnt logical at all

I'm too smart to take your comment seriously.

No logical person would

EmperorCaesar:


Tinubu wan decongest and depopulate Lagos

Mrvitalis, you no get excuse again

mrvitalis:
Investment is not the issue with eastern ports

Allow Ports import all goods they want... Don't limit certain goods to certain ports.. That's the Koko.. All this other things are rubbish

Allow us import pharmaceuticals ,chemicals ,foods, textile from any port not only Apapa like u have it now

PressMyButton:
A time will come when there will be no more propaganda against Tinubu.

Kukutenla:
Such is possible if he performs.

Then you can wake up every morning, face Abuja and hit your head on the floor saying Tinubu Akbar.

But for now, there's no propaganda against him.

He's just failing dasoll

PressMyButton:
I can't blame you, you can't even manage a bet naija shop, that's why you think managing a country is like opening a tap water.

PressMyButton:
This one does not even know that four private companies have been granted concessions to operate Onne port and they offer various logistics and cargoes delivery services.
Keep basking in ignorance.

Hankim:
Only a fool will believe APC and we know where your believe lies

mrvitalis:
Bros I would give u 100 million if u can import pharmaceuticals from onne... Let's see who is ignorant

EmperorCaesar:
If one would have to believe a random comment online like yours over an FG report, then that person isnt logical at all

I'm too smart to take your comment seriously.

No logical person would