Abuja Agro-allied Potential Strategic To Boosting Non-oil Revenue Says Ports Authority

The managing manager of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Dr Abubakar Dantsoho, has said that Abuja’s centrality, coupled with its affluent agro-allied potential, is germane to strengthening NPA’s committedness to supporting the Federal Government’s efforts to turn non-oil gross continuously.

During the NPA Special Day, astatine Abuja International Trade Fair, Dr Dantsoho said Abuja is connected to section worth producers successful the non-oil worth concatenation to place planetary clusters of request for their goods.

According to him, Abuja’s presumption arsenic the country’s centre is strategical to the NPA’s renewed absorption connected commercialized facilitation, which places a precocious premium connected port-hinterland connectivity.

He further argued that Abuja’s centrality presents a seamless linkage with the comparative advantages inherent successful each regions of the federation that tin beryllium harnessed to prolong maturation successful the measurement and worth of Nigeria’s exports.

He said that, arsenic Nigeria’s foremost commercialized facilitation platform, the authorization is ever arrogant to beryllium associated with the noble origin of the Abuja International Trade Fair, particularly seeing that commercialized remains the astir veritable instrumentality for actualising astir of Nigeria’s economical aspirations.

The NPA MD utilized the juncture of the “NPA Special Day” to invitation the full trading and investing nationalist to research the tailor-made simplified export processes and different vistas of accidental contiguous astatine the Nigerian Ports Authority.”

He said, “As immoderate of america are aware, successful our bid to lend to the strengthening of the home system done the promotion of equilibrium of trade, we established the Export Process Terminal (EPTs) to simplify the hitherto burdensome process of exporting Nigerian goods.”

Dr Dantsoho explained that the EPTs were conceptualised to service arsenic a one-stop store for cargo consolidation, stuffing, documentation, packaging, certification, and onward shipment done physics call-up to the Ports successful a speedy turnaround time, frankincense eliminating the duplications and bureaucratic overlaps that antecedently rendered Nigerian exports uncompetitive successful the planetary marketplace.

He said that to facilitate port-hinterland connectivity and make pathways for Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises (SMEs) to enactment successful the export worth chain, the EPTs person been structured to person a seamless handshake with the Domestic Export Warehouses (DEWs) successful synergy with the Nigerian Exports Promotion Council (NEPC) and the Inland Dry Ports.

“To align with the economical stabilization resoluteness of the Federal Government and the taxable of the year’s just ‘Sustainability: Consumption, Incentives and Taxation’ we are unifying our assorted operational channels into a singular transaction gateway known arsenic the Ports Community System (PCS) which lays the groundwork for the implementation of the National Single Window (NSW) which sustainably eliminates each forms of opacity and attendant delays associated with undue quality interference,” helium stated.

Dr Dantsoho further explained that the NSW is the planetary champion signifier for delivering the astir outstanding worth with the astir fantabulous easiness by connecting each stakeholders successful the commercialized worth concatenation for seamless enactment astatine the propulsion of a button, saying NPA has enactment measures successful spot to nexus worth creators successful the remotest portion of the hinterland with the farthest clusters of request anyplace connected the globe.

He assured each stakeholder that the doors of NPA are ever unfastened for partnerships beyond the commercialized fair, urging them to sojourn the NPA’s afloat interactive online, real-time website www.nigerianports.gov.ng to entree our maturation offerings.