Four companies have been pre-qualified for the development of the nation’s ports master plan. The firms were selected nofollowing
Authority (NPA).
A 25 year port development plan is being embarked upon by the NPA as a strategic policy for effective utilization of resources and efficient service delivery in the ports sector.
NPA’s Managing Director Mallam Abdul Salam Mohammed who dropped the hint at the recently concluded First USA-Nigeria Trade and Investment Framework agreement TIFA business forum held in the three cities of Atlanta, Houston and Chicago in the United States of America, encouraged investors to position themselves to take advantage of the emerging opportunities in the country.
On the issue of security at Nigerian Ports, the managing director who was represented by the General Manager Eastern Ports, Mr Sotonye Etomi, explained that channels had been secured and measures had been put in place to ensure that all the ports are compliant with the International Ship Facility Port Security code.
Mohammed said plans had been put in place to connect all the nation’s ports by rail. Already rehabilitation and building of existing and new rail lines respectively were being undertaken and opportunities still exist in these areas.
In a statement by Malam Iliya Musa, the NPA assistant general manager, Public Affairs quoted the managing director as saying: “Everything you need in other sectors is invested in the ports that are why the pre-reform challenges were addressed.”
In her presentation, the Director of commercial service in the US Department of Commerce, Julie Carducci commended the organisers. She said that the forum had further strengthened the platform for Nigerian companies and agencies to develop relationships with US exporters and investors.
The Vice President of Corporate Council of Africa (CCA), Mr Tim McCoy while commending the forum and encouraging American investors to come to Nigeria also said that in spite of global economic meltdown, Africa had continued to post economic gains and that Nigeria is too big a market to ignore he concluded.
Meanwhile, the authority had appointed Mr. Efioita Okon Ephraim as the new Port Manager of Tin Can Island Port Apapa Lagos.
He replaced Mr. Henry Cline who retired from the NPA after some years of meritorious service.
Until his appointment, Mr. E. O Ephraim was the acting assistant general manager, Monitoring and Compliance at the NPA corporate headquarters in Marina.
The new port manager holds a bachelor degree in Economics from the University of Calabar (UNICAL), post graduate diploma in Port & Shipping Management from the International Maritime Transport Academy (IMTA), Holland and a masters degree in transport from Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye.
He was called to the bar in 2005 having bagged and LLB and BL from Lagos State University (LASU).
The experience he has gathered in marketing and commercial departments, attendance at several maritime seminars both local and international and his membership of various operational committees will be useful in consolidating the gains that has been recorded by the successful concession of the Tin Can Island Port.

Source: Nigerian Compass

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