NATIONAL SINGLE WINDOW: Team Lead Technology, National Single Window, Adedamola Yusuf; Government Relations Manager, APM Terminals, Adeyinka Akinlade and Director Operations, National Single Window, Femi Ekunkoya, at the Stakeholders and Customer Engagement Forum organised by APM Terminals Apapa, at the Lagos Port Complex Apapa on Tuesday.
By Godwin Oritse
Nigeria’s largest container terminal, APM Terminals Apapa, has brought together key government agencies and importers in a concerted effort to resolve operational bottlenecks affecting cargo clearance on the National Single Window (NSW) platform, as authorities pledged to fine-tune the system and improve trade facilitation across the nation’s ports.
At a Stakeholders and Customer Engagement Forum held at the terminal in Lagos yesterday, representatives of the National Single Window Project, the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS), National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and the Joint Task Force met directly with customers to address concerns ranging from permit processing and Harmonised System (HS) Codes to documentation errors and regulatory overlaps.
