President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday inaugurated the Kaduna Inland Dry Port and warned the Nigeria Customs Service and port officials against frustrating the effective use of the facilities. He said that the development of Inland Dry Ports was an important factor in the nation’s economic development efforts. “As Ports of origin for exports and ports of destination for imports, the Inland Dry Ports will accelerate the implementation of our economic diversification policy. He said in addition to the Kaduna Inland Dry Port, six other Inland Dry Ports in Ibadan, Aba, Kano, Jos, Funtua, and Maiduguri, which had also been gazetted, were at various stages of completion. He lauded the efforts of the Kaduna state government for facilitating the establishment of Kaduna Inland Dry Port.

Source: Nigerian Tribune January 04, 2018 14:37 UTC