BUSINESS: FG SET TO INAUGURATE PORTS, CUSTOMS EFFICIENCY COMMITTEE
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The Ports and Customs Efficiency Committee (PCEC) will be established by the Federal Government (FG) through the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) with the goal of enhancing port operations and service delivery efficiency in a sustainable manner.
The Vice-President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Senator Ibrahim Kashim Shettima, will preside over the inauguration, which will be held at the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) headquarters in Lagos. The event will include more than 50 heads of government agencies and private sector industry captains from across the whole range of value chains that play a major role in Nigeria’s economic development.
A multi-stakeholder (public and commercial sector) project, the PCEC seeks to improve service delivery and increase efficiency in Nigeria’s ports and customs industry. Its main goal is to find gaps and put solutions in place to make conducting business easier by cutting down on inefficiencies that hinder trade facilitation and restrict the rate of economic growth in the country.
Improved efficiency and shorter cargo stay times, increased accountability and transparency in port operations, improved stakeholder cooperation, and a stronger customer-centric focus are some of the immediate benefits anticipated from the PCEC.
Dr Abubakar Dantsoho, Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), stated that the organisation was prepared to host the meeting.
“We are greatly delighted to host this all-important collaborative process-improvement meeting, as it is very much in tandem with our efforts at eliminating bottlenecks and bursting red tapes on the path of trade facilitation”.
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