President of Advocacy for Maritime Development Association Oluwasegun Alabi has said lagislations are required to improve policies that would revolutionise the Maritime sector.
At a round table discussion organised by AMJON, on Thursday, Alabi noted that his mission for establishing his Advocacy Association was to further improve the industry for the good of stakeholders.
“I’m also a strong ANLCA member and a trucker too with a disguised record, I formed the association to actualise standard, improve functional methods of doing business in the industry”
Alabi who address various issues affecting the Maritime sector insisted that policies guiding the effecient running of the Ports must be sustenable.
According to him, freighters have to understand their limits .
Nigerian laws have to be amended such that foreigners won’t have undue advantage over their Nigerian counterparts in Port business.
He clearly nsisted that lagislations on the ownership and operation of freight forwarding companies must be instituted.
As it is, foreigners have upper hands in port businesses in Nigeria and this must change not by speech making but in changing certain policies through lagislations that would empower the locals.
According to him, that was why he had to establish the Advocacy for Maritime Development Association whose membership would grow with time.
On Apapa gridlock, he commended NPA on the effecient implemention of ETO system, “I personally drove my car to Apapa on Thursday, in the past, it would be impossible, the traffic was light and movement was easy, this is ETO working”.
Introduction of the ETO system had helped in regulating traffic in Apapa. I personally drove my car to Apapa on Thursday, in the past, it would be impossible.
He revealed that the cost of freighting goods from Apapa to Ikeja has drastically reduced and this was because of the efficient implemention of the ETO system, he said.