• Grants 75% Waiver To Owners
Apparently choked by the sheer number of imported vehicles that have been abandoned at its terminal by their owners since 2008, the management of Port and Terminal Multiservices Limited (PTML) last week cried out to the government to free its facilities of these unwanted cargoes.
• Grants 75% Waiver To Owners
Apparently choked by the sheer number of imported vehicles that have been abandoned at its terminal by their owners since 2008, the management of Port and Terminal Multiservices Limited (PTML) last week cried out to the government to free its facilities of these unwanted cargoes.
Speaking through its General Manager; Mr Tunde Keshinro, the PTML told a gathering of stakeholders last week Thursday at Tin Can Island port that it was prepared to grant owners of the abandoned used vehicles a 75 per cent waiver on demurrage. He however said that this is applicable only to vehicles imported between 2008 up to 2012.
He also called on the Federal Government to intervene and authourise the auctioning of overtime cargoes in the terminal, even as he confirmed that there are more than 2, 000 overtime vehicles that have been abandoned within its terminal that need to be auctioned out.
Keshinro stated that the company has been battling the issue for about two years.
He blamed freight forwarders for the problems because according to him, the freight forwarders who stand as agent to the importers usually bite more than they can swallow.
“Part of the challenges we are having today is that many clearing agents collect jobs but because of inadequate quotation they are unable to deliver the jobs”
“A lot of people are bringing vehicles to Nigeria without having their money in their hands to clear it, help us to enlighten your customers, if you have capacity to bring two vehicles then bring only two and not 10. Gone are the days when people are bringing vehicles to the port to sell, that will not happen again, so please don’t bring vehicles to come and sell” he warned the freight forwarders.
He stressed that the terminal is not a warehouse that can keep vehicles forever even as he stressed that the terminal is having space constraints, “we cannot stack vehicles, it is only containers that we can stack”
“A lot of vehicles are being locked up in our terminal without being cleared, we have over 2,000 over time vehicles that we want to get out of our terminals, we have been working on this for the past two years, to even get the government to auction overtime cargo in our terminal” he said.
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