APMT may frustrate government efforts to tackle Apapa gridlock – freight forwarder

Illustrating his claim, he stated that if the concessionaire is supposed to position one thousand containers in a day, it will only succeed in positioning only three hundred because of lack of enough equipment while trucks that are supposed to pick such containers that are not positioned will have no choice than to remain in the roads.

He however called on the government to constitute a committee to look into the activities of the terminal operators.

The ANLCA chieftain called on the government to set up a committee  that would involve customs brokers to inspect the existing facilities at APM terminals, pointing out that  lack of equipment at their disposal would hinder the effort of establishing a truck park at the  Ijora holding bay.

Speaking further, he noted that the innovation of the government to convert the facility to a truck park would not yield positive results adding that terminal operators and shipping companies may frustrate the directive for selfish motives.

According to him, the establishment of the truck park at Ijora would lead to port congestion as the concessionaire and sister shipping line “Maersk Line” would frustrate the process through lack of handling equipment.

Asked what happens to his members at the Tincan 2 chapter after take over by NPA for truck holding bay, he said the members had merged with the Apapa chapter of the association.

Recall that NPA recently took over the facility for conversiin into Truck Transit Park (TTP) for manual call up system as a means to processing solutions to the perennial gridlock in Apapa.

Asked about the position of the leaders of ANLCA over closure of Lilypond terminal, Olufemi lamented that the Nwabunike led administration has been clueless  to tackle the numerous challenges affecting the association.

He also frowned at the alleged inconsistency of the national president of ANLCA ,pointing out that the association since inception of the current administration has been under the control  of the Vice President Kayode Farinto and Secretary General, Babatunde Mukaila.

He maintained that the ANLCA President lack the ability to manage crisis;  which according to him, is the hallmark of a good leader.

The  ANLCA chieftain noted that : “Leadership is by God. Mr. Tony Iju does not know how to manage his followers as a leader. ANLCA is not a public or political association rather its for professionals.

“The way Tony Iju is going about leadership is not good and I pray for him because it is only God that will help him.

“If he fails today,tomorrow will be a reference point for him because he failed to lead us the way it ought to.

He challenged the President to present his score card since elected as ANLCA president.