Haulage costs plunge by over 60% at Apapa, Tin-Can ports; operators share reasons behind the decline

• While prices of everything successful Nigeria are rising, importers person seen haulage costs clang by much than fractional successful 1 week
• The truckers and cargo operators person their antithetic ideas astir what is liable for the driblet successful prices
• The physics call-up strategy was introduced astatine the Apapa and Tin-Can oversea ports past twelvemonth to easiness logistics

Legit.ng writer Ruth Okwumbu-Imafidon has implicit a decennary of acquisition successful concern reporting crossed integer and mainstream media.

It is absorbing times for Nigeria, arsenic haulage costs astatine the Lagos seaports person crashed much than 60% successful the past week.

The haulage costs refers to the terms spent to determination already cleared containers retired from the larboard to the destination, and is antithetic from the import and clearing duties.

Truckers confirmed that the terms of a haulage travel from Apapa seaport to Sango Otta, Ogun State, tanked massively from N900,000 past week to astir N350,000 this week.

The e-callup strategy was introduced to easiness logistics astir oversea ports, particularly successful Lagos wherever determination was ever congestion. Photo credit: Picture Alliance/Bloomberg
Source: Getty Images

The outgo of haulage from the seaport to Ikeja besides outgo astir N650,000 to N750,000 past week for a trip, but is present successful the scope of N250,000.

A travel from the larboard to Agege besides outgo astir N600,000 to N650,000 before, but present costs N200,000.

Operators stock reasons down the terms drop

One trucker, Yusuf Liadi told Leadership News that the terms driblet was a effect of respective factors starting with debased imports.

Liadi stated that owed to the unfavourable speech complaint and precocious clearing costs, measurement of imports had reduced drastically, besides reducing the request for the haulage trucks.

According to him, respective trucks are successful the yards waiting to get a Terminal Delivery Order (TDO) to determination cleared cargoes to the warehouses, and this created a supply-demand imbalance that origin prices to crash.

The beingness of a viable modular gauge obstruction enactment present besides means that galore importers are opting to determination their cargoes retired of the seaports to Oyingbo oregon Sango Otta.

Liadi expressed his concerns implicit the existent terms which helium said is not a existent reflection of Nigeria’s economical reality, and hoped it would summation again.

Cargo operators recognition it to the e-call system

Chairman of the Lagos State Truck and Cargo Operators Committee (LASTCOC), Alhaji Lukman Shittu, attributed the terms driblet to the ratio of the physics call-up strategy now.

With the e-callup system, it is easier to marque bookings, and the larboard entree roads are escaped reducing the clip spent successful haulage and translating into the reduced prices.

He explained;

“When determination is simply a scarcity of trucks astatine the terminals, we person a fewer trucks chasing truthful galore already cleared cargoes, the terms volition spell up. Also, erstwhile determination is congestion connected the larboard entree roads, prices volition automatically spell up.”

Shittu debunked talks of debased imports, insisting that up to 100 trucks haul cargoes retired of the ports daily.

Another trucker, Alhaji Alaba Asobiaro, corroborated his statement, noting that the terms driblet is owed to the lack of congestion connected the larboard roads, arsenic supported by the e-call-up system.

With the physics callup system, congestions are gone arsenic trucks tin easy publication and thrust into the ports to prime cargoes without wasting time. Photo credit: Ports and ships UGC
Source: UGC

He noted that if the easiness of booking and accessing the ports stay arsenic is now, helium expected the prices to enactment low.

Recall that investors pulled retired of the Lekki-Epe ports corridor owed to the suspension of the physics call-up.

Truck drivers place cartel opposing e-callup system

In related news, Legit.ng reported that the members of the Trucks Transit Park (TTP) had identified a cabal opposing the implementation of the e-call-up system.

The authorities had introduced an physics call-up strategy astatine the ports to heighten motortruck logistics and easiness question successful those corridors.

The cartel, made up of backstage and nationalist workers, however, preferred the aged strategy wherever they exploited motortruck drivers, and truthful tried to frustrate the e-call-up.

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Source: Legit.ng