Stakeholder Urge CRFFN To Reduce Cost Of Training Executives

The Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) has been advised to reduce the high charges of training of executives and directors of the freight forwarding firms in the maritime industry.

The Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) has been advised to reduce the high charges of training of executives and directors of the freight forwarding firms in the maritime industry.
Vice chairman (International Relations), National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF), Chief Osisi Tico Philips who disclosed this to Shipping Position Daily in Lagos stated that for the objectives of training practitioners in the industry to be achieved, there should be reduction in the cost so that most of the top executives and directors can afford to attend the training programme that is put together by the freight forwarding regulatory agency in the country.
The NAGAFF top man said that, so far the various training programmes for the executives have not been well attended as a result of the high charges and added that since it is the responsibility of CRFFN to train practitioners, fees charged should not hinder the players from attending.
"CRFFN has been living up to expectations,  but the only area that I find not comfortable with, is the money charged for training of executives which I must say it is too high" , he said.
"The money is excessively too high and as we can see, many people are yet to participate in the directors and executives training programme put together by CRFFN".
"I believe if the authority could reduce the cost to N50,000,N30,000 or even N20,000, it will enable people to participate. As it is at the moment, I doubt if 30 persons have been trained by the council”, he pointed out.
He further stressed that "there should be total reduction to enable the practitioners to take part in the training of executives in freight forwarding profession".
"From the look of things, the council has not trained enough number of top executives as they ought to because the money they change is too high”, he said.
"Imagine a situation, where an individual who is a managing director is paying N250,000 for training of just one week, I mean it is too much because when we are talking about training it should not be limited so much, rather it has to be reduced such that a lot of people will participate".