The National Council of Managing Directors of Licensed Customs Agents has called for the granting of a revolving loan from the Maritime Fund of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency to indigenous transporters and licensed customs agents to procure trucks and barges and replace the rickety trucks and barges in the port industry.
The group disclosed this in a recent letter addressed to President Bola Tinubu, titled RE: An Urgent Need to Provide Revolving Loans from the Maritime Fund of NIMASA to Revive the Rickety Barges and Trucks Used by Maritime Transporters/Licensed Customs Agents for the Carriage of Goods from Nigerian Ports, signed by its National President, Mr Lucky Amiwero, and obtained by The PUNCH.
The group stressed the urgent need to replace the rickety barges and trucks within the nation’s expanded coastline “to save the port industry from the constant breakdown of trucks and barges by granting a revolving loan facility that will be used in replacing the rickety barges and trucks, which endanger life and property along the highways and coastlines.”
NCMDLCA added that the nation’s ports need efficient multimodal transport and infrastructure for the proper conveyance of goods by road, rail and coastline to safe destinations.
