The
Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has called for the
collaboration of all stakeholders to tackle traffick gridlock, port congestion
and other problems in Apapa and its environs.
Fashola
made the call at a stakeholders meeting on the ongoing Apapa Wharf Road
reconstruction project in Surulere.
The
stakeholders at the meeting included the three financiers of the project,
Dangote Construction Company Ltd, Flour Mills of Nigeria Ltd and Nigerian Ports
Authority NPA.
Others
were National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers NUPENG, Association of
Maritime Truck Owners AMATO and National Association of Road Transport Owners
NARTO, among others.
The
stakeholders, after extensive deliberations, agreed to resolve issues of
logistics and regulation of truckers and port operations. They
called on shipping companies to return to the system of using their loading
bays and effective call up systems to end port congestions.
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