The Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi has succeeded in placating freight forwarding associations; Association of Nigeria Licensed Customs Agents ( ANLCA ) and the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders ( NAGAFF ) to suspend their plans to go on strike at all ports in Nigeria.
Shipping Position Daily gathered from sources at a meeting between the minister and the five freight forwarding associations in Lagos on Wednesday that government had appealed to the agents for more time to look into their complaints.
Amaechi was represented by the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Alhaji Sabiu Zakari.
The meeting which held at the board room of the Nigerian Shippers Council had in attendance the Registrar of Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN); Sir Mike Jukwe, Executive Secretary of the shippers council, Mr Hassan Bello and some of his management staff.
Confirming the resolutions to our correspondent, President of Association of Registered Freight Forwarders of Nigeria ( AREFFN ) Dr. Frank Ukor said that the meeting was called to address the 21 – days ultimatum that was issued recently by ANLCA and NAGAFF to shut down the ports.
Ukor said the government has promised to look into these problems and start acting on them.
"On the issue of the 21days ultimatum we would want to exercise patience since the government is already interceding. They asked us to give them time"
"So the ultimatum would now start from tomorrow for another 21days for the government to look into the matter"
"We had a very fruitful meeting, the ministry of transportation came, Shippers Council, CRFFN, the five associations were all there"
"ANLCA and NAGAFF highlighted all the problems we have in the port, these points were properly documented and this was what was adopted as the position of the problems at the ports", he told our correspondent.
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