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Home » Port Manager Says that NPA Set to Deploy New Equipment to Nation’s Ports

Port Manager Says that NPA Set to Deploy New Equipment to Nation’s Ports

by Joshua
October 24, 2012
in Uncategorized

The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) says it will soon deploy new operational equipment to the various ports in the country as part of measures to enhance their operational capacities.
 The Manager of Port Harcourt Port, Mr Dele Alabi, disclosed this in an interview with newsmen in Port Harcourt last week.
 Alabi urged port users, especially shipping companies, to bear with the authority as the new equipment, when fully deployed, would enhance the ports’ operations.

The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) says it will soon deploy new operational equipment to the various ports in the country as part of measures to enhance their operational capacities.
 The Manager of Port Harcourt Port, Mr Dele Alabi, disclosed this in an interview with newsmen in Port Harcourt last week.
 Alabi urged port users, especially shipping companies, to bear with the authority as the new equipment, when fully deployed, would enhance the ports’ operations.
‘’Already, the management of the authority has made arrangement to procure some of these crafts, as we speak, I am aware, those crafts are just waiting for deployments.‘’So, I am also waiting to be briefed, fully briefed.‘’I intend to look at the report to find out what the situation of things are.’’
Alabi assured that the authority would come up with answers to the issues raised by the shipping trade group soon. He was responding to observations that were made by the group.
Chairman of the shipping trade group in Rivers, Mr Miebaka Lugard had said shipping firms had been encountering problems at the Port Harcourt Port.
 He said the firms paid for pilot boats and tug boats, but noted that such services had yet to be provided by the authority.
According to him, ‘’for some time now, we have not been enjoying these facilities any longer, facilities like tug boats that attend to ships when they are berthing or when they are sailing. We also have pilot boats that convey pilots from Port Harcourt to their places of operations either at Bonny or at Okrika or at Onne.
Speaking further, he added that, ‘’ we also have facilities like pilot cutters that always bring in vessels from the sea to Bonny anchorage for inward movement to the Port or outward movement outside  the Port.‘’To buttress our case, in every bill we pay, all these facilities are paid for in advance.’’
Lugard said the trade group had forwarded its complaints to the NPA management on such issues.


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