Anthony Onoharigho, has called on the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) and the Nigeria Shippers’ Council (NSC) to invoke laws that would ensure empty containers were discharged from the ports. “They can also invoke that part of the law to discharge the containers from the port,” Onoharigho said. He pointed out that there were also other alternative means of removing the containers if owners did not want to do so. “This issue of empty containers has been on for a long time and the shippers’ council and the NPA are responsible for goods and containers’ transit from one place to another. “There is a stacking place in Apapa and if individual ship owners who export cargoes want to get a stacking place of their own, they can do that in Apapa,” he said.

Source: Nigerian Tribune May 25, 2020 18:00 UTC