Abuja’s centrality, agro-allied potentials strategic to non-oil growth — Dantsoho

By Godwin Oritse

FOR farmers and section producers, Abuja’s cardinal determination and agro-allied strengths contiguous a uncommon accidental to scope wider planetary markets. With the Federal Government driving policies to turn non-oil revenue, the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has pledged to play a supportive relation by creating linkages that link producers straight to planetary request clusters.

Speaking astatine the conscionable concluded Abuja planetary Trade Fair, Managing Director of NPA said that this attack not lone strengthens export opportunities but besides empowers grassroots players successful the non-oil worth concatenation to lend meaningfully to Nigeria’s economical diversification.

According to him, the presumption of Abuja arsenic the centre of the state is strategical to the NPA’s renewed commercialized facilitation absorption that places a precocious premium connected port-hinterland connectivity, which Abuja’s centrality accentuates, 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 arsenic Nigeria’s foremost commercialized facilitation platform, the authorization is ever arrogant to beryllium associated with the noble origin the Abuja International Trade Fair represents, particularly seeing that commercialized remains the astir veritable instrumentality for actualizing astir of Nigeria’s economical aspirations.

The NPA brag utilized the accidental of 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 commercialized we established the Export Process Terminal (EPTs) to simplify the hitherto burdensome process of exporting Nigerian goods.”

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

He said to facilitate the port-hinterland connectivity and make pathways for Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) to play 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) arsenic good arsenic 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.

He explained that the NSW is the planetary champion signifier for delivering the top worth with the top 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 adjacent beyond the commercialized fair, urging them to sojourn the NPA’s afloat interactive online existent clip website www.nigerianports.gov.ng to entree our maturation offerings.

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