Nigerian ports face renewed congestion as racketeers exploit electronic call-up system

• The seamless question of trucks and freight astatine the Apapa and TinCan Island ports is nether threat
• Hiccups successful the implementation of the physics call-up strategy are causing congestion and chaos astatine the larboard entree roads
• Stakeholders accidental that a racketeering radical astatine the ports has taken implicit the e-call-up strategy and is liable for the chaos

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

The authorities introduced the physics call-up strategy past twelvemonth to tackle congestion and logistics challenges astir the seaports and their entree roads.

The strategy has been implemented, suspended, re-implemented, and present faces challenges arsenic the truckers study that racketeers are taking over.

The racketeering astir the strategy has present caused congestion and rowdiness to instrumentality to the ports astir the Tin-Can and Apapa Ports.

The crippling of the physics callup strategy tin origin congestion to instrumentality to the larboard roads. Photo credit: Ports and ships
Source: UGC

The concern has present warranted the Nigerian Customs Service, and different licensed stakeholders to measurement successful to avert full chaos.

Racketeering strategy takes implicit physics call-up system

The racketeering features achromatic marketplace dealers exploiting truckers and freight agents, and frustrating the physics call-up system.

Even though the ETO summons officially costs N20,750, achromatic marketplace dealers are collecting betwixt N250,000 and N400,000 from freight agents to circumvent the process.

The Coordinating Secretary of the Joint Association of Licensed Customs Agent and Freight Forwarders, Apapa, Mr. Dominic Chukwuemeka, noted that these racketeers are frustrating a strategy that was designed to get escaped of larboard roadworthy congestions.

Speaking astatine the motorboat of a grooming programme to sensitise cardinal stakeholders connected the physics call-up system, Chukwuemeka described the existent strategy arsenic chaotic, the GUARDIAN reports.

He explained that immoderate truckers present get fake ETO tickets, get entree to the ports utilizing fake sheet numbers that lucifer their tickets, and origin congestion everywhere.

He lamented;

“Some truckers region their archetypal sheet numbers and connect fake ones that lucifer the summons conscionable to get done the larboard gate. After loading, they power back. That is however atrocious it is.”

To code this problem, the relation had requested a betterment to the ETO booking strategy truthful that the tickets are not conscionable linked to the trucks sheet number, but straight to the instrumentality fig and measure of lading.

The Chairman, National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF), Apapa Chapter, Mr. Eze Uchendu, confirmed the concern adding that with the existent chaos, an ETO call-up summons nary longer guarantees 1 entree to the port.

E-callup strategy Training for Customs agents

The Head of Operations, Trucks Transit Park (TTP), Irabor Akonoman, lent his dependable to the discussion, noting that the concern is present misleading and respective radical judge that the ETO tickets outgo implicit N200,000.

He urged the Customs agents to imbibe the cognition and skills to recognize the e-call up strategy and the booking procedures, truthful that they could efficiently play their roles arsenic gatekeepers successful the larboard logistics.

Akonoman noted that customs-licensed agents are liable for facilitating motortruck question successful and retired of the ports, and allowing them to publication and contented tickets straight to transporters volition heighten transparency and efficiency.

The racketeers merchantability fake ETO tickets to truckers, causing disruption to the Electronic Call-Up System. Photo credit: Lagos Today/LA Times
Source: UGC

Recall that the suspension of the e-call-up strategy was 1 of the reasons investors pulled retired of the Lekki-Epe corridor.

E-call-up strategy causes clang successful haulage costs

In related news, Legit.ng reported that haulage costs astatine the Lagos seaports person crashed by much than 60% successful 1 week.

The truckers and cargo operators person antithetic ideas astir what is liable for the driblet successful prices.

Some operators deliberation the electronic call-up system introduced astatine the Apapa and Tin-Can oversea ports past year, is liable for this.

PAY ATTENTION: Сheck retired quality that is picked exactly for YOU ➡️ find the “Recommended for you” artifact connected the location leafage and enjoy!

Source: Legit.ng