Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Abubakar Dantsoho, has assured Nigerians that he will rehabilitate the country’s dilapidated port infrastructure.

Mr Dantsoho said this during a visit to Tin Can Island Port (TCIP) on Monday, July 22, 2024.

According to him, he will collaborate with port stakeholders in a bid to deliver efficient services at the nation’s seaports.

He stated: “With the kind of backing we have from the Honourable Minister of Marine & Blue Economy, His Excellency Adegboyega Oyetola CON, I want to assure stakeholders that the much-talked-about reconstruction of Tin Can Ports Complex will move from rhetoric to action.”

He also stressed on President Bola Tinubu’s mandate to deliver efficient port services and improved industry outcomes, noting that his management team is poised to do that as quickly as possible.

He noted that port competitiveness is dependent on sound infrastructure and assured that the NPA will deliver on that necessity as soon as possible to better service Nigeria’s domestic cargo needs and those of landlocked neighbouring nations.

He said: “We will continue the digital transformation of the Authority and reinforce the current efforts at deploying the Port Community System (PCS).”

During the ceremony, the immediate past Managing Director of the NPA, Mohammed Bello-Koko, added that the agency recorded an unprecedented growth in revenue generation and remittances to the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF) under this leadership.