Government Says Single Window Deployment Will Ease Trade Bottlenecks At Seaports

The National Single Window (NSW) Secretariat, connected Monday, assured stakeholders of the Federal Government’s committedness towards deploying the NSW to trim bureaucratic bottlenecks hindering trade.

Speaking during a stakeholder sensitization  programme for  the NSW task successful the South East and South-South region, the manager of the NSW Secretariat, Tola Fakolade,  said  the level would alteration the state go a caller concern destination, saying, each bureaucratic bottlenecks hindering commercialized would beryllium drastically reduced.

LEADERSHIP reports that the NSW task is expected to beryllium operational by archetypal 4th of 2026 arsenic directed by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu arsenic portion of the determination successful achieving the $1 trillion system by twelvemonth 2030 successful enactment with satellite economical maturation projections for countries. Fakolade emphasised the government’s committedness to simplifying commercialized processes and improving transparency crossed Nigeria’s ports.

He, however, applauded the efforts of the Nigeria Customs Service, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and others for their pioneering roles successful digitisation of commercialized processes.

Fakolade assured the stakeholders of the national government’s afloat committedness towards deploying the NSW to alteration the state to go a caller concern destination, portion hoping that each bureaucratic bottlenecks hindering commercialized would beryllium drastically reduced.

“It volition guarantee transparency successful the strategy and enthrone predictability erstwhile transacting business, yet reducing outgo of doing Business and idiosyncratic to idiosyncratic contacts successful the commercialized ecosystem,” helium stated.

In his keynote address, the Registrar, Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding successful Nigeria (CRFFN), Kingsley Igwe, highlighted the NSW’s benefits to traders, noting that importers and exporters basal to summation from reduced bottlenecks, faster clearance and improved competitiveness.

He urged stakeholders to instrumentality vantage of the strategy and leverage it successful their businesses, describing it arsenic a 1 -Stop Shop level that houses each authorities related gross postulation agencies, importers and exporters arsenic good arsenic different regulatory agencies, granting them a azygous entree for declarations.

In his opening remarks, the Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adeniyi, represented by the Zonal Coordinator, Customs Zone C, Headquarters Port Harcourt, Assistant Comptroller General of Customs, Kamal Mohammed, welcomed the stakeholders, insisting that the lawsuit was a defining infinitesimal for commercialized facilitation

The Customs brag called for collaboration of each stakeholders to marque the task work, emphasising that nary azygous organisation tin execute meaningful occurrence successful isolation but done collaboration.

He stated that, with National Single Window, clearance process and procedures arsenic good arsenic documentation would beryllium easier and faster, thereby reducing outgo of commercialized adjacent arsenic helium said that corporate intent was the watchword.

Also contiguous astatine the event, the President of the Association of Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA), Emeka Nwokeoji and the Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Shippers Council, Dr Pius Akutah, applauded the inaugural and called for stronger collaboration among stakeholders to guarantee its success.