• Says Council, Not NPA Should Collect CTN
For the first time since the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has started collecting of the controversial Cargo Tracking Note (CTN), the Nigerian Shippers’ Council has expressed displeasure with it saying that it was wrong to have given the responsibility to NPA.
Executive Secretary of the Council, Capt. Adamu Biu, argued last week that the council should administer the Cargo Tracking Note (CTN) and not the Nigerian Port Authority (NPA). “It is wrong for the business of CTN to reside with the Nigerian Ports Authority,’’ Biu said at the NAN Forum on Sunday in Abuja.
Biu disclosed that the scheme started worldwide in 1998 and the essence was neither to make money, nor a security instrument. “It is simply a statistical instrument of what goes in and comes out,’’ he stated, even as he lamented that an otherwise simple policy has been blown out of proportion.
Giving an insight into the evolution of the concept, the Shippers’ Council boss disclosed that it was a creation of the African Shippers’ Council, and more specifically, an instrument of the United West and Central Africa Shippers’ Council; a body comprising 26 nations to enable each member nation to take the statistics of the cargo coming in and going out of her territory.
Lamenting the inefficiency of CTN as it is been implemented in Nigeria, he said it was regrettable that “some vessels that came into the country recently with toxic wastes had CTN and it did not reveal it, so where is the security of the CTN?’’
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