MARITIME
The Nigerian Shipper Council, NSC, and the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, yesterday disclosed that they will challenge the sustained arbitrary charges by international shipping lines for vessels coming to the country.
The position of both agencies was made known in Lagos when the management team of NSC led by the Executive Secretary/ Chief Executive Officer, CEO, Hassan Bello, paid a working visit to the Director General of NIMASA, Dr Bashir Jamoh.
Bello said: “We want to eliminate most of these surcharges that litter our trade.
The Surcharges are supposed to be temporal to deal with unusual situations but some have become permanent like the war risk charges which I am sure that the Director-General (Jamoh) will know that as soon as we solve the security problem the war risk charges will go.
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Economy still groaning from arbitrary port charges
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By Godfrey Bivbere
Some fees and charges collected by shipping companies and terminal operators from Nigerian shippers have pitched them against the nation’s Port Economic Regulator, PER, the Nigerian Shippers’ Council, NSC, for over a decade now. But the importers and exporters are still subjected to the huge cost arising from the charges while Nigerian economy suffers.
Some of the charges include; Shipping Line Agency Charges, SLAC, Container Deposit Charges, CDC, Container Cleaning Charges, CCC, Storage Charges, and others.
SLAC is an extra charge slammed on shippers after it was already included in the shipping charges paid by the shipper at the point of import.
The Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC)
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Tue Apr 20 2021
The Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) says it hopes to achieve 80 per cent automation of the entire seaport processes on or before the end of the first half of the year.
The nation’s seaport economic regulator also vowed to sanction terminal operators who fail to digitize all their operations before the end of 2021.
The Executive Secretary of the council, Barr. Hassan Bello, dropped these hints at an interaction session with maritime correspondents in Lagos.
Bello, who said the council recovered $14,000 bribery proceeds from officials saddled with the responsibility of boarding and inspection of ships whenever they arrive at the Nigerian seaports, noted that “human interface and poor automation accounts for the slow turnaround of cargo in the country.”
Eromosele Abiodun
After several setbacks and following assurances by the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) the Nigerian Shippers Council (NSC) has said it will finally abolish container deposit by the end of June this year.
Executive Secretary/CEO of the NSC, Hassan Bello who disclosed that at a media briefing in Lagos, said Nigerian shippers paid a whooping N16 billion as container deposit in 2018 alone.
Bello, said the figures for 2019 and 2020, which the NSC will soon make available are not far from that of 2018, indicating that Nigerian shippers paid over N48 billion as container deposit in three years.
Container-deposit also known as a deposit-refund system, is the collection of a monetary deposit on certain containers at the point of sale and/or the payment of refund value to the consumers.
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