NARTO raises alarm over stranded export containers on Port access roads

Abiola Seun

The National Association of Road Transport Owners ( NARTO ) has raised alarm over majority of the containers queuing up on access roads to the port which are mainly export containers being delayed because they don’t have complete documentation.

Speaking last week, Chairman of Dry Cargo Section of NARTO, Alhaji Inuwa Muhammed said that trucks laden with export containers were not supposed to approach the port until their documents are fully perfected.

He said that the association, in collaboration with other truck owners’ groups has commenced a process of identifying these trucks with no specific business at the port, and that evacuation process has commenced.

“One of the challenges which we are already working towards is that there are trucks carrying exports which are not supposed to approach the port gates until all their documents are fully perfected”

“But you find out that so many of the trucks are there on the port access road for days and several weeks without their export documents being perfected”

“On Saturday and Sunday, we tried to push in some of them to all these garages within Tin Can first gate, pending when their document would be perfected and they would enter into the port, but still some of them are still hindering free flow of traffic”

“We are working with the Presidential Task Force on how to move out the export containers”, he said.