At UNGA, Dantsoho Pledges Globally Competitive, Digitally-driven Port System

The Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Dr Abubakar Dantsoho, has said the authorization is moving to physique a globally competitory larboard strategy that volition heighten commercialized facilitation, pull Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), and boost capitalist assurance successful Nigeria’s economical future.

Dantsoho disclosed this portion delivering a insubstantial titled “Optimising Nigeria’s Port Infrastructure, Enhancing Trade Facilitation and Global Competitiveness,” astatine the ongoing United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).

Dantsoho disclosed to the planetary assemblage that the authorization would motorboat the Port Community System (PCS) by the archetypal 4th of 2026.

He said, “We are gathering a globally competitory larboard strategy that volition fortify commercialized facilitation, pull Foreign Direct Investment, and boost capitalist assurance successful Nigeria’s economical future. We look guardant to continued collaboration to execute these goals.

“NPA is besides implementing a digital, collaborative, and all-encompassing level connecting stakeholders, data, transactions, and initiatives to amended NPA’s integer footprint. This level (Port Community System) was seen arsenic viable successful the archetypal 4th of 2026.”

The NPA brag further stated that each the nation’s seaports’ integer platforms allowed for paperless transactions, which minimises waste.

He stated that the nation’s seaports’ ratio has contributed to a 19.6% maturation successful non-oil exports successful the archetypal fractional of 2025.

“The NPA is utilizing astute digitalisation to execute thin and greenish operations. We’ve deployed a caller physics obstruction strategy astatine each Lagos Port Complex terminals to amended postulation and power access. This strategy is integrated with the “Eto Electronic Call-Up System’ (a call-up motortruck strategy developed successful collaboration with respective motortruck parks), which manages motortruck introduction and eases congestion.”

“We are optimising cargo processes by introducing e-Tag verification, Joint boarding apps, physics nonstop systems, and others to trim cargo dwell clip and turnaround clip successful our ports. Our integer platforms let for paperless transactions, which minimise waste.

“The NPA is infusing sustainability into its operations to boost ratio and semipermanent viability. We are improving intermodal connectivity to trim reliance connected roadworthy transport and little emissions. We are presently moving connected automating our Barge, Truck, and Railway applications,” helium disclosed.

Speaking connected reducing emissions, the NPA helmsman said the authorization is spearheading the shore-to-ship emanation reduction, starting with the Lekki Port.

“We are improving intermodal connectivity to trim reliance connected roadworthy transport and little emissions. We are presently moving connected automating our Barge, Truck, and Railway applications.

“The Authority is spearheading the shore-to-ship emanation reduction, starting with the Lekki Port. NPA is spearheading the collaborative one-stop store (OSS) ref hed lipid export/local crude outgo to heighten seamless approvals and gross procreation for the government,” helium added.

He stated further that the authorization is dedicated to modernising the nation’s seaport infrastructure and streamlining their services.

“This multi-purpose larboard successful the Lekki Free Zone is simply a cardinal collaboration betwixt the NPA and different partners. The port’s capableness to grip ace post-Panamax vessels is indispensable for achieving economies of standard and enhancing the competitiveness of Nigerian exports.

“We person commissioned and dedicated a state-of-the-art fleet of tug boats and allied Marine Crafts to work the ever-growing operations astatine the Lekki Deep Seaport, the Dangote Refinery, which is the largest single-train refinery successful the satellite and the Dangote Fertiliser Plant, which is the largest granulated urea fertiliser works successful Africa.”

“The Nigerian Ports Authority is dedicated to modernising our larboard infrastructure and streamlining our services. We look guardant to continued collaboration to execute these goals,” helium stated.