Dantoso prioritizes port infrastructure renewal, visits Apapa, Tin Can Island ports

Dantoso prioritizes port infrastructure renewal and visits Apapa and Tin Can Island ports

By prince Benson Davies

newly appointed Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (MD/CEO) of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Dr. Abubakar Dantsoho, has identified the speedy rehabilitation of dilapidated port infrastructure across the nation as his topmost priority.
Speaking during an unscheduled visit to Apapa Port and Tin Can Island Ports Complex (TCIP) in Lagos on Monday, Dantsoho also pledged to collaborate with port stakeholders in a bid to deliver efficient services at the nation’s seaports.
According to the NPA boss, adequate port infrastructure and robust collaboration with stakeholders will enable the nation’s seaports attain improved revenue generation through efficiency and productivity.
Fielding questions from the newsmen, Dantsoho restated that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu mandated the Authority to deliver efficient port services and improve industry outcomes, adding that his management team is poised to do that as quickly as possible.
“With the kind of backing we have from the Honourable Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola, I assure stakeholders that the much-talked-about reconstruction of Tin Can Ports Complex will move from rhetoric to action,” he remarked.
He equally observed that port competitiveness is dependent on sound infrastructure and assured that the NPA will deliver on that necessity as soon as possible to better service Nigeria’s domestic cargo needs and those of landlocked neighbouring countries.
It would be recalled that Abubakar Dantsoho, who was recently appointed as Managing Director, assumed the role with over 25 years of hands-on operational experience of NPA.

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Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (MD/CEO), Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Dr. Abubakar Dantsoho (second right), flanked by Port Manager Lagos Ports Complex, Charles Okaga (second left), Chief Port Engineer Lagos Ports Complex, Engr. Kayode Aluko and other NPA officials on Tuesday, July 23, 2024, when Dantsoho undertook an unscheduled operational visit to Tin Can and Apapa Ports complexes

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Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (MD/CEO) of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Dr. Abubakar Dantsoho (middle), flanked by NPA Officials on Tuesday, July 23, 2024, during an unscheduled operational visit to Tin Can and Apapa Port Complexes in Lagos