The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has started consultations with the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) to address operational hitches arising from the rollout of the trade automation platform, the Unified Customs Management System, popularly known as B’Odogwu. This consultation is a response to freight forwarders and Licensed Customs Agents concerns over delays, demurrage, and disruptions linked…
The Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) has launched a new results-oriented strategic framework focused on accountability, digital integration, and stakeholder responsiveness. The Council’s Executive Secretary/CEO, Dr Pius Akutah, while unveiling the 2025–2029 plan at the Council’s Management System Retreat in Lagos yesterday, said the reforms reflect the Council’s obligation to match policy with action and ensure…
APM Terminals Nigeria has announced its commitment to a sustained schedule of the Apapa-Moniya Standard Gauge, ensuring the seamless flow of cargo to and from the Apapa port to the Nigerian Railway Corporation Freight Yard at Moniya, Ibadan, Oyo State. Chief Commercial Officer of APM Terminals Nigeria, Caroline Aubert-Adewuyi, spoke in Lagos, during the launch…
By Monijesu Ogunojuwo The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) in collaboration with APM Terminals, Apapa has resumed the Lagos-Ibadan cargo train with 35 containers departing the Lagos Port container terminal for Moniya in Ibadan, Oyo State. Speaking during the re-launch of the Lagos-Ibadan cargo train on the standard gauge rail yesterday, the Managing Director of the…
The Federal Government will begin the implementation of the International Cargo Tracking Note (ICTN) across the nation’s ports by the second quarter (Q2) of this year. The Executive Secretary/CEO of the Nigerian Shippers Council (NSC), Mr Pius Ukeyima Akutah revealed this in Ibadan, yesterday. Akutah spoke during the Five Year Strategic Management Retreat held with…
