Friday, 20 October 2017

Fashola Calls for Support to End Apapa Gridlock






    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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