Forum to discuss intermodal transport challenges, prospects for Nigeria

Stakeholders are gearing up to attend a maiden edition of the Nigeria Transport Sector Summit, a yearly forum for all industry major players, regulators and professionals to brainstorm on issues germane to the development of the transportation sector.

Organisers of the forum, the Transportation Correspondents Association of Nigeria (TCAN), said the event would be held on October 17, 2024, at Radisson Hotel Ikeja, Lagos.

A statement signed by Chairman of TCAN, Yinka Aderibigbe, and the event’s Organising Committee Chairman, Rasheed Bisiriyu, gave the theme of this year’s event as ‘Intermodal Transport: Prospects and Challenges’.

The forum is expected to be declared open by the Minister of Transportation, Senator Sa’idu Ahmed Alkali, while former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, would deliver the keynote address, the statement added.

The statement reads: “The focus on intermodal transportation in the maiden edition of the annual summit is deliberate. It is aimed at bringing together relevant stakeholders across all subsectors of the transport industry to form a working synergy rather than working at cross-purposes.

“Such arrangements will seemingly operate greater efficiency through lower costs, operational flexibility and reduced environmental impact that will ultimately benefit all.”

Already, TCAN said a team of speakers had been carefully selected to do justice to the issue under focus. It said a panel of discussants featuring some relevant members of the intelligentsia, and heads of prominent agencies/organisations would speak to the sub-themes of the summit around railway, road, inland waterways and aviation sub-sectors of the transportation industry. An industry journal produced by TCAN would be formally unveiled as one of the high points of the event, the statement added.