The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has vowed to improve aviation cargo business in Nigeria by addressing five impediments.
FAAN had last year set up the Aviacargo Roadmap Committee, which has identified five bottlenecks to the growth of aviation cargoes in Nigeria with most of the cargo flights bringing imports into Nigeria returning empty.
The MD/Chief Executive of FAAN, Capt Rabiu Yadudu, who spoke during a tour of cargo facilities at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport MMIA Lagos, said the authority would immediately commence the process of removing the bottlenecks.
The committee coordinator, Mr. Ikechi Uko, organiser of the CHINET Aviacargo Conference who presented the third monthly interim report for the month of April shortly before the tour, identified five areas that needed to be resolved by FAAN.
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The challenges are port export areas for NAHCO and SAHCO, improper and poor-quality packaging of goods for export, limited operating hours of the export terminal; lack of facilities for exporters to package their goods at the airport if they failed to do so at their facilities, and the fifth is the indiscriminate parking of vehicles at the terminals and at the airport.
At the new Chinese-built cargo terminal, the MD promised that with a few final touches, the terminal would become an example for the new Vision of Aviacargo in Nigeria.
Yadudu said, “We do not want an academic report. We all know the problems; we expect a strategy and steps to implement the report when you finally submit the report. Please see your effort as a national project that helps not just aviation but the whole nation.”
