The management of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council, NSC, has directed freight forwarders operating at the nation’s seaports to ignore unauthorized policemen that are involved in the illegal interception of already cleared cargoes from the seaports.

The Nigerian Shippers Council, NSC which is the nation’s Port Economic Regulator, also serves as the industry anti-corruption watch-dog in its bid to ensure smooth trade facilitation in the nation’s maritime domain.

The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council, NSC, Mr Hassan Bello, has said that the proposed Inland Dry Ports, IDPs, will permanently take care of congestions at the seaports when completed and operational and enhance the nation’s cargo handling capacity.

The challenges facing Nigerian shippers are too many and from different directions. Apart from the issues of infrastructure in Nigerian ports environment that have impacted negatively on trade facilitation locally, importers have had to contend with the surcharges imposed on them by shipping agents who are acting on the dictations of multinational shipping lines under different conferences involved in the movement of goods from one continent to another.

The Nigerian Shippers’ Council, NSC, has called for the removal of obstacles to intra-regional integration in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) sub-region saying that it “will be beneficial to the small scale traders that conduct cross-border commerce within the region.”

THE Nigerian Shippers Council, NSC, has threatened to bar any unregistered port service provider from accessing the nation’s seaports across the country.

IN a bid to checkmate quackery in the Nigerian maritime industry, the Nigerian Shippers’ Council, NSC, yesterday, commenced registration of port service providers aimed at regulating their activities.

The Executive Secretary of Nigerian Shippers Council, NSC, Hassan Bello, has said that the Federal Government is focused on eliminating gridlock along the Apapa port axis in the next three months.

The Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC), has warned that there won’t be a meaningful port concession review without involvement of the Council.

Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, yesterday charged members of the West and Central Africa sub-region of the Union of African Shippers Council, UASC, to work at implementing the World Trade Organization, WTO, trade facilitation agreement.

The Nigerian Shippers Council, NSC, yesterday faulted its exclusion from the planned review of the port concession exercise embarked upon years back.

The Nigerian Shippers Council, NSC, yesterday, said its planned signing of a Memorandum of Understand, MoU, with shipping companies operating in Nigeria will reduce cost of doing business in the country by 35 per cent.

THE Nigerian Shippers’ Council, NSC, has said that it was working on a door-to-door cargo delivery mechanism with a view to ensuring the safety and security of cargo delivery.

The Nigerian Shippers’ Council, NSC, has recovered over N80 million illegal charges from shipping companies between in the first half of 2018.

THE Nigerian Shippers’ Council, NSC, has ordered shipping companies to vacate the off-dock terminal charge of N70,000 per container which they introduced about a month ago.