From left: Managing Director, NPA, Mohammed Bello-Koko presents a plaque to the acting Registrar/CEO, CRFFN, Chinyere Uranta during the visit.

Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority NPA, Mohammed Bello- Koko, last week led other top management of the authority to play host to officials of Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria CRFFN, who were on a working visit.

Bello-Koko assured the CRFFN officials that the management under his watch was doing everything humanly possible to make the nation’s seaports efficient, user-friendly and globally competitive.

He further assured that the management was assiduously working on the modernisation of existing port infrastructure across all port locations in the country as well as the automation of port operations, which are expected to drive desired efficiency of the ports, thus reducing cost of operation and enhance competitiveness.

Acting Registrar/CEO of the council, Chinyere Uranta, who spoke earlier, commended the Bello-Koko –led management of the NPA for the various reforms and innovations it has brought to the port industry even within a very short period of time.

Uranta said she was particularly excited by the disappearance of the seemingly intractable Apapa gridlock, which almost grounded port operations for several years, adding that dismantling the perennial gridlock in Apapa was truly a great feat.

She urged the MD and his management team to continue the good work in NPA, which has tremendously transformed the port industry within a short time.