NPA MD Spot Checks Port Access Roads, Holds Process Improvement Talks with Terminal Operators

With the resolve to promptly respond to stakeholders’ feedback on the truck traffic situation along Apapa and Tin Can Island Port Complexes access roads, the Managing Director Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Dr. Abubakar Dantsoho paid an unscheduled visit to the Lagos Ports access road, on Monday 17th February, 2025.

Speaking during the spot check of critical operational arteries, Dantsoho said, “Such unscheduled visits, which will be frequent, are motivated by our continuous improvement paradigm”

Although I have tasked the Port Managers to urgently resolve the areas of concerns raised by the trucking and freight forwarding community, I will continuously follow up directly to ensure compliance and measurable results.

“Traffic Management efficiency is a deliverable that we take very seriously, which is why beyond optimizing the electronic call-up (eto), we are working assiduously towards multimodal means of evacuation through barges and the rail lines. Specifically, we will work with Nigeria Customs to relocate the scanner sited on the rail line link in Apapa to facilitate seamless evacuation”.

“The Port access road is an international corridor, so we have zero tolerance for traffic clogs that cause congestion. So we are poised to increasingly hold ourselves and everyone to account. First the automated access gates must work, we must shorten the SOPs to align with the necessity for quick transaction turnaround to remain competitive first with our peers in the region and internationally”.

On Honourable Minister for Marine and Blue Economy Adegboyega Oyetola for securing Federal Executive Council FEC approval for the commencement of actual works for reconstruction of TinCan Island and rehabilitation of challenged aspects of Apapa Port Complexes, Dantsoho further said, “these positive developments coinciding with the Federal Government’s approval of the National Single Window (NSW) project signposts Nigeria’s readiness to berth large cargo carriers commensurate with the size of Nigeria’s population”.

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