Importers Urge FG To Make Onitsha Port Cargo Destination

The importers want to receive their foreign
goods direct in Onitsha.
The Anambra Shippers Association has called
on the Federal Government to officially
gazette the Onitsha River Port as an
international cargo destination.
Emmanuel Akpaka, president of the
association, told the News Agency of Nigeria
in Onitsha, that this would make the port
viable.
Mr. Akpaka noted that the initiative would
also expand the frontiers of Onitsha that
was located on the River Niger basin, as an
international business hub.
“We want the port to be gazetted, in order
for it to become a destination for cargo
from anywhere in the world, whether China,
Japan, Malaysia, America, or Britain.”
“So that our business brothers and sisters
could ship their cargoes and goods direct
from the foreign ports into Onitsha port.”
“And this can be done through a system of
trans-loading tens of containers or some
thousands of volumes of goods into badges
to Onitsha direct and the importer receives
his or her consignments in Onitsha.”
Akpaka commended the federal government
for completing the port in time, as well as
installing state-of-the-art facilities in it.
“We believe that all international
businessmen and women have a stake in the
positive wellbeing of the Onitsha port and we
would also take it as our own,’’ he added.
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