Blessing Onumajuru
29 October 2009
A cross section of maritime stakeholders has applauded the recent award by a Ghana based media organization bestowed on the Nigeria Shippers Council. Among those who supported the award was Mr. Adeleye Ajayi, the president of Maritime Association of Nigeria,-MARAN. According to him, the contributions of Nigerian Shippers Council in the area of advocacy and arbitration on behalf of Nigerian Shippers is worthy of any kind of accolade.
Aside from reducing conflict among shippers and their agents, such other roles of the council have brought a lot of stability and harmonious business environment both in Nigeria and West Africa.
Responding in the same vein, Mr. Vincent Ugochukwu, a freight forwarder said that "if for nothing, Shippers Council should be praised for the role they played in putting in place Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarders of Nigeria, CRFFN, a body that has put our members on their toes as everybody want to play according to the rule.
Recall that recently, Nigeria Shippers Council was awarded 2009 West African Maritime Agency in trade facilitation for being responsive in the course of advancing the fortunes of Shippers in international trade.
The award which was presented to the council by the Deputy Executive Secretary, Ghana Shippers Council, MR. Emmeanuel Martey on behalf of the organizers was the climax of a one-day, 2009 West African Business Roundtable which had the theme "Regional Maritime Trade and Poverty Eradication.
While presenting the award to the Executive Secretary and Chief Executive Officer of the council, Capt. Adamu Biu, Mr. Martey praised the efforts of the council in promoting and protecting not only the interest of Nigeria but that of West Africa and indeed the sub region in trade facilitation and in nurturing of sound and positive trade policies that had earned her the coverted award.
In his response while receiving the award, Capt. Biu assured shippers in the sub region of the councils resolve to reduce to its barest minimum all manner of extraneous factors capable of hindering the smooth international trade transactions across the sub-regional frontiers.
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