Port manager vows to end traffic congestion

The new Port Manager, Tin-Can Island Port, Lagos, Emmanuel Akporherhe, has promised to work with stakeholders to end the perennial traffic congestion along access roads to the port.
He made this known during an operational tour of all Terminals within the Tin-Can Island Port with his management team yesterday.
“The terminal operators are doing well at Tin Can Port but their major problem is congestion along the access roads to the port, which the present NPA management is working hard to stop.
“My major goal is to find how the gridlock along the port access road will be defeated.
“Many people do not know that the congestion had truncated a lot of businesses and created a lot of complications to operations.
“Congestion also slows down business activities. The NPA management will team up with all government agencies, stakeholders as well as Lagos State and local governments to eradicate the traffic problem,’’ Akporherhe said.
The Port Manager said that for those terminals facing challenges of miscreants and hoodlums, NPA would combine efforts with the Terminal Operators to fight it.
He said that the introduction of barges would go a long way in easing the traffic congestion, adding that it would also make Nigerian ports more attractive.
Also speaking, the Managing Director, Grimaldi Agency, Ascanio Russo, said the management of the Terminal had introduced barges to beat the traffic and improve on their services.
“The customer does not have to come to the port. The barges will pick the cargo from the Terminal and deliver the cargo at Mile 2 Terminal for the customers.
“We just started the operations of barges a week ago and so far we have been able to discharge 400 containers off the Terminal without facing delay of trucks coming into the port to carry containers,’’ Russo said.