Port Operators Raise Concerns About E-Call Up System In Apapa

Port operators have called on the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) to overhaul the e-call up system recently introduced to address traffic congestion along the Apapa ports in Lagos South West Nigeria.

Recall that NPA announced the launch of ‘Eto’, an electronic truck call-up system designed for the management of truck movement and access to and from the Lagos Ports Complex and the Tin Can Island ports, Apapa, Lagos.

The National President of the Nigerian Association of Air Freight Forwarders and Consolidators (NAFFAC ), Prince Adeyinka Bakare, warned that the e-call up system might be truncated by officials of the port authority involved in the process, alleging that the progress recorded so far might suffer setbacks by saboteurs.

Though residents and businesses in Apapa are celebrating and thanking God for the return of sanity to their environment following the introduction of an electronic call-up system for trucks which, so far, has been a success story, there is a flip side to that great feat.

Logistics operators are facing what they say is an unexpected round of losses in the wake of the shift in the call-up system at the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) terminals in Apapa to a digital platform aimed at increasing transparency and easing traffic flow.