By Godwin Oritse
The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has introduced plans to begin aggressive towing of vehicles parked indiscriminately alongside Apapa Port entry roads as a part of renewed efforts to revive visitors order and ease persistent gridlock across the nation’s busiest maritime hall.
In a public discover circulated to members of the Affiliation of Maritime Truck Homeowners (AMATO), the port authority mentioned the operation would goal vehicles obstructing visitors and inflicting congestion alongside port approaches.
Nevertheless, following an enchantment by AMATO’s management, the NPA has granted a brief grace interval to allow the affiliation sensitise its members and guarantee instant compliance with the directive.
AMATO has, subsequently, urged all its members to desist from parking vehicles on the roads and warned that erring autos can be towed as soon as enforcement begins.
“To be forewarned is to be forearmed,” the affiliation mentioned, noting that indiscriminate roadside parking had continued to show truck house owners to arrests, impoundment and what it described as “outrageous” towing and penalty expenses by enforcement businesses.
To sort out the problem of restricted parking house, AMATO introduced the opening of the Mainland Transit Park at 235 Ijora Street, Lagos, to accommodate all classes of dry cargo vehicles. The affiliation mentioned the ability is anticipated to boost security for vehicles, cargo and drivers, and scale back circumstances of hijacking, container housebreaking and indiscriminate towing.
AMATO additional pledged to proceed working with related stakeholders to create a extra conducive working atmosphere for truckers and enhance the effectivity and profitability of port haulage companies in Lagos.
Within the Discover, AMATO, decried the rising stress on operators to adjust to visitors rules as authorities intensify efforts to decongest Apapa and restore sanity to port operations.
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