The Nigerian Ports Authority and the Nigerian Customs Service have reestablished their partnership to increase exports and facilitate trade, particularly in the area of agricultural exports.
The interim Comptroller General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, was recently visited by the NPA’s managing director, Mohammed Bello-Koko, who made this declaration on Tuesday.
According to him, the meeting’s main goal was to make export processing simpler by getting rid of any procedural bottlenecks that cause delays and reduce the competitiveness of Nigerian goods, particularly agro-allied products, in the global market.
Adeniyi had already praised NPA for building export processing terminals, which had boosted exports from the nation.
He assured NPA that the NCS was putting the finishing touches on efforts to streamline the abundance of Customs units, checkpoints, evacuation of overdue cargo from the ports, and swift relocation of the Customs facility standing on the rail link of Apapa Ports.
He continued by saying that once these issues were all resolved, Ikorodu Lighter Terminal could be optimized.
Given that the balance of trade is essential to preserving the value of the naira, the renewed cooperation between the Nigerian Ports Authority and the Nigerian Customs will give President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s attempts to expand the national economy additional energy, he concluded.
