The Murtala Muhammed Airport Chapter of the Association of Nigeria Licensed Customs Agent (ANLCA) in Lagos is set to begin a three days training on ICT operations for its members and all customs brokers operating at the chapter.
This is coming even as the Nigeria Customs Service has just concluded a four-day training exercise for custom brokers at the headquarters of ANLCA at Festac Town, Lagos.
The Murtala Muhammed Airport Chapter of the Association of Nigeria Licensed Customs Agent (ANLCA) in Lagos is set to begin a three days training on ICT operations for its members and all customs brokers operating at the chapter.
This is coming even as the Nigeria Customs Service has just concluded a four-day training exercise for custom brokers at the headquarters of ANLCA at Festac Town, Lagos.
Speaking with Shipping Position Daily at the chapter in Lagos yesterday, Chairman of ANLCA at the airport; Alloy Nze Igwe said that the airport training is designed to among other things, transfer the knowledge gained from the recent Customs training at the headquarters down to members at the airport.
The training is scheduled to take off from 17th to 20th of November 2014.
Also speaking with our correspondent, the Public Relations Officer of the chapter; Mr. Emmanuel Njokwu explained that the training is equally meant to equip members on ICT operations.
Njokwu revealed that one of the operators at the airport; Nigerian Aviation Handling Company (NAHCO) has provided a computer room for agents and there is need to equip members on how to use this facility.
The computer room that was provided by NAHCO is expected to be a one-stop-shop where all transactions can be carried out without necessarily having human interface.
This, according to the freight forwarder will further reduce the crowd at the airport as well as reduce the stress in manual documentation and payments.
"There is now an ICT room at NAHCO where agents can go and interface with computers and pay their charges"
"NAHCO has provided the rooms and they are already installing the computers, this will reduce the crowd and the stress of documentation as it affects our transactions with NAHCO", he stated.
According to him, once this is fully operational, the agents will approach Skyway Aviation Handling Company Limited (SAHCOL) to provide the same at its terminal.
"This is why my chairman has been encouraged to put this training in place so that those who do not have the technical know-how can begin to have it and make use of the provisions available, all these are geared towards trade facilitation and we are embracing it"
"A lot of people are not yet conversant with the use of internet in capturing and processing their goods clearance, so we want to use the association as a platform to train people from 17th of November to 20th of November", Njokwu stated.
The customs broker described the training at ANLCA headquarters as very enriching and this was why a date has been chosen to transfer the knowledge acquired to airport operators.
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