NPA in fresh moves to remove containers from roads 

The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has directed shipping companies to henceforth be responsible for the movement of empty containers from their holding bays to the port or face strict sanctions.
   
This is coming after its intervention halted the agitations and planned a three-day warning strike by the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MAWUN) at the seaports.
   
The Authority, in a statement by Assistant General Manager, Corporate & Strategic Communications, Ibrahim Nasiru, said: “Shipping companies are to be responsible for the movement of empty containers from their holding bays to the port. Consignees are to drop empty boxes at the designated empty container holding bays.”
   
It warned that “failure of shipping companies to remove empty containers at the holding bay will attract sanctions”.
 

“In the interim, management is liaising with the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing for the immediate commencement of remedial works on failed portions of the port access road.
  
“Management is partnering with the Lagos State Government to deploy law enforcement officers for the maintenance of sanity along the port logistic ring,” he stated.
  
Maritime workers under the aegis of MWUN had threatened to embark on a three-day warning strike from December 9, over the deplorable state of access roads to Lagos seaports.