The Association of Maritime Truck Owners (AMATO) has directed its members to strictly comply with the approved single-lane arrangement and avoid indiscriminate parking along the Lagos ports corridor ahead of the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) clean up exercise.

The association also directed truck drivers to remove all broken-down trucks obstructing the port access roads and ensure orderly conduct throughout the period of the operation.
The PEBEC is expected to commence a two-day clean-up and enforcement operation along the Lagos Port Corridor on May 14 and 15, 2026, aimed at addressing congestion and traffic bottlenecks around the Apapa and Tin Can Port access roads.

This follows the gradual return of trucks and traders along the Apapa port corridor, as well as the various complaints of hardships truckers are currently enduring as a result of incessant extortion by unauthorised personnel and other exploitative practices perpetrated against truck operators within the port corridors.

In a statement signed by the Secretary General, AMATO, Mohammed Sani Bala, the group said the exercise is designed to tackle persistent challenges such as traffic congestion, extortion of truckers, indiscriminate dumping of refuse and unauthorised checkpoints.

Others issues to be addressed include, indiscriminate parking and other uncoordinated activities along the port corridors which continue to hinder cargo movement and increase logistics costs.

“Members are advised to cooperate fully with enforcement agencies in order to avoid sanctions and heavy penalties. To be forewarned is to be forearmed,” the group stated.