NPA, Customs to promote agro exports

To increase exports and ease trade, particularly with regard to agricultural exports, the Nigerian Ports Authority and the Nigerian Customs Service have reestablished their partnership.

When visiting the acting Comptroller General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, in Abuja recently, the NPA’s managing director, Mohammed Bello-Koko, made this comment on Tuesday.

He said that the meeting’s main objective was to make export processing simpler by doing away with all administrative obstacles that cause delays and reduce the competitiveness of Nigerian exports, particularly agro-allied items, abroad.

Adeniyi had earlier praised NPA for establishing export processing terminals, which had increased the nation’s exports.

He gave the NPA the assurance that the NCS was wrapping up its efforts to streamline the proliferation of Customs units, checkpoints, the removal of overdue goods from the ports, and the swift relocation of the Customs facility located on the rail link of Apapa Ports.

He continued by saying that the elimination of these issues would allow for the optimization of Ikorodu Lighter Terminal.

The renewed cooperation between the Nigerian Ports Authority and the Nigerian Customs will provide President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s attempts to expand the national economy new momentum, he added, “given that the balance of trade is vital to improving the value of the naira.”