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GOVERNOR Babajide Sanwo-Olu inadvertently gave an insight into the corruption and racketeering within the Lagos ports and its environs when he rece. ....
Usman warned that trucks found on the Apapa road without e call-up would be impounded, while insisting that shipping companies must have their own holding bays for empty containers. However, Nwabunike in an interview with Daily Trust yesterday said the traffic situation around Apapa made the cost of shipping containers into Nigeria to rise by 600 per cent in the last quarter of 2020. He said in the first half of 2020, it cost $1,000 to ship a 20-foot container to Nigeria from the Far East, adding that towards the end of the year, the cost charged by shipping lines for the same service rose to between $5,500 and $6,000. ....
National President of the Association of Nigeria Licensed Customs Agent (ANLCA), Iju Tony Nwabunike, has said the electronic call up system recently introduced by the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) is capable of crashing haulage cost by 50 per cent if not sabotaged. ....
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Eromosele Abiodun After years of untold hardship and deaths, sanity yesterday returned to Apapa, a once thriving port city brought to its knees by protracted traffic gridlock. This followed the take off of the electronic call-up system (ETO) introduced by the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA). Apapa had in the past several years defied effort to solve its traffic problem. The efforts, including a presidential task team, were blighted by corruption. However, normalcy returned to Apapa following the removal of trucks that littered the port access roads – Apapa Oshodi Express Way and Western Avenue leading to Ijora. When THISDAY visited both ends of the port access roads yesterday, officials of the Lagos State government and NPA taskforce teams were seen with tow vehicles well positioned to remove erring trucks. ....