From right: Acting Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority NPA, Mohammed Bello-Koko presents the authority’s plaque to the Chairman, Senate Committee on Privatisation and Commercialisation, Senator Theodore Orji, during the committee’s oversight function visit to NPA corporate headquarters in Lagos Monday.

The Senate Committee on Privatisation and Commercialisation, Monday said it would stop at nothing in supporting the Nigerian Ports Authority NPA in its renewed efforts towards making the nation’s seaports efficient and competitive.

Chairman of the committee, Senator Theodore Orji, who led other members on a one-day working visit to the authority as part of its oversight functions, commended the management for its efforts to reposition the seaports to compete with their peers across the globe.

The chairman assured that the committee would liaise with the entire National Assembly in order to ensure the strengthening of the legal and regulatory framework for the seaport industry to make the ports globally competitive.

Acting Managing Director NPA, Mohammed Bello Koko, who led other members of the management team, assured that it would not relent in its efforts to ensuring hitch-free port operations.

He particularly assured that concerted efforts were being made to rid the port approaches, especially the Lagos Ports Complex and the Tin Can Island Ports Complex of all inhibitions to free flow of traffic.

He noted that the authority’s electronic call up system codenamed ETO, through which the authority plans to regulate the influx of trucks and other articulated vehicles was being refined for better efficiency, assuring that the Apapa gridlock would soon become a thing of the past.