Apapa Customs targets 200 containers hourly scanning to facilitate trade, cargo clearance

By Godwin Oritse

Comptroller Oluwadare Oshoba, Customs Area Controller of the Apapa Port Command, has called connected larboard users and stakeholders to hole for a much seamless commercialized process arsenic the Nigerian Customs Service advances its modernisation task with the commencement of fixed scanner installations.
With the installation of fixed scanners present underway astatine Apapa Port, the Nigerian Customs Service has taken different large measurement successful its modernisation thrust arsenic Comptroller Oluwadare Oshoba, who oversees the Apapa Command, assured larboard users and stakeholders that the improvement volition construe into faster and much businesslike commercialized processes.

In a connection signed by Tunde Ayagbalo, Public Relations Officer of the Apapa Area Command, the Customs Area Comptroller, Oshoba, disclosed this soon aft inspecting the determination for the installation of 3 caller scanners astatine the port, saying that the Command is acceptable to surpass expectations arsenic the scanners would beryllium examining 200 containers per hour.

While describing the quayside determination for the scanners arsenic an operational masterstroke, the Customs Area Comptroller stated that nary consignment volition flight high-tech, non-intrusive inspection astatine Apapa Port, arsenic the scanners volition beryllium strategically positioned adjacent to the berthing area.

He commended the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Mr. Adewale Adeniyi, for his relentless committedness to NCS modernisation, portion urging  officers to hole for intensive train-the-trainer sessions, arsenic the adjacent signifier aft installation would beryllium grooming up of afloat deployment.

He advised NCS ICT officers to heighten their capableness gathering for the tier 1 and tier 2 levels of scanner maintenance, which are the archetypal of their benignant successful the West and Central Africa sub-region.

Oshoba described the feat arsenic a large milestone astir to hap and advised larboard users, particularly importers, exporters, and their agents, to uphold the tenet of sincere declaration, arsenic each mendacious declarations and concealment would beryllium exposed by the technology.

Oshoba said, “I privation to, connected behalf of our officers and men, convey the CGC for starring america done an epoch of revolutionary customs modernisation. The accomplishment of these scanners is 1 of the galore large benefits we volition reap from the modernization project.

“Our partners, the Trade Modernisation Project (TMP), person assured america that the installation would past for 45 days, and we are expecting 2 units of scanners from them, with an further 1 from APM Terminals. These 3 scanners would guarantee that determination is nary downtime for cargo introspection present and reenforce our presumption arsenic the fig 1 destination for larboard activities successful Nigeria.

“All hands indispensable beryllium connected platform to spot to the afloat realisation of this imagination which would prevention time, summation revenue, heighten nationalist security, beforehand commercialized and forestall larboard related crimes from the earliest constituent of entry.”

Aliyu Suleiman, Team Leader of the Trade Modernization Project (TMP) explained that the fixed scanners being installed are NUCTECH FS6000 models from China.

He noted that the high-throughput, drive-through X-ray strategy tin scan trucks and containers successful a azygous walk astatine speeds of up to 15 km/h, enabling non-stop inspections astatine engaged ports and borders. The technology, which uses dual-energy X-ray transmission, produces elaborate images to observe concealed contraband and hazardous materials.

Suleiman added that the scanners’ compact, modular plan makes them casual to relocate and integrate with systems specified arsenic License Plate Recognition (LPR) and RFID. He further disclosed that speech from the 3 fixed scanners being deployed, APM Terminals has pledged to supply a mobile scanner arsenic backup successful lawsuit of downtime.

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