The newly appointed Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Abubakar Dantsoho, has promised to rehabilitate the nation’s dilapidated port infrastructure.
Mr Dantsoho, who made the promise whereas talking throughout a go to to Tin Can Island Port (TCIP) on Monday, mentioned he’s going to collaborate with port stakeholders in a bid to ship environment friendly providers on the nation’s seaports.
“With the form of backing now we have from the Honourable Minister of Marine & Blue Financial system, His Excellency Adegboyega Oyetola CON, I need to guarantee stakeholders that the much-talked-about reconstruction of Tin Can Ports Complicated will transfer from rhetoric to motion,” he mentioned.
He defined that sufficient port infrastructure and sturdy collaboration with stakeholders will allow the nation’s seaports to realize improved income technology via effectivity and productiveness.
Talking additional, he reiterated President Bola Tinubu’s mandate to ship environment friendly port providers and improved business outcomes, noting that his administration crew is poised to do this as shortly as attainable.
He famous that port competitiveness depends on sound infrastructure and guaranteed that the NPA will ship on that necessity as quickly as attainable to higher service Nigeria’s home cargo wants and people of landlocked neighbouring nations.
The brand new MD additionally pledged to additional the digital transformation of the NPA and advance ongoing efforts in port rehabilitation and modernisation.
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“We’ll proceed the digital transformation of the Authority and reinforce the present efforts at deploying the Port Neighborhood System (PCS),” he mentioned.
Through the ceremony, the speedy previous Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Mohammed Bello-Koko, mentioned the company recorded an unprecedented progress in income technology and remittances to the Consolidated Income Fund (CRF) beneath this management.
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