Bello Advises Freight Forwarders to Embrace Dialogue, Not Closure of Ports over Issues

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The former Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Shippers Council (NSC) Hassan Bello has advised freight forwarders against clamouring for the closure of the nation’s ports each time they have issues with either the shipping service providers or the government.
Bello said that rather, the freight forwarders should embrace the option of negotiating such issues for amicable resolution.
According to him, “Freight forwarders should never talk about closing the port. They should be negotiating issues of freight, tariff, tax; that is their role, not going to the port to look for expected time for cargoes”.
He gave the advice recently on the occasion of the maiden graduation ceremony on Freight Forwarding and Supply Chain Management in Lagos organised by CRFFN and the Federation International of Freight Forwarding Association (FIATA).
Bello had during the event stressed the need for the CRFFN Act to be reviewed and given more powers to issue licences to freight forwarders.
Bello said this has become imperative considering the important place of freight forwarding in logistics chain.
He made the call recently on the occasion of the maiden graduation ceremony on Freight Forwarding and Supply Chain Management in Lagos organised by CRFFN and the Federation International of Freight Forwarding Association (FIATA).
Bello said, “I will like to see few changes in the CRFFN Act. The act should be strong so that it influences licence exclusively to freight forwarders.
“Freight forwarding practice is the bigger picture as they can operate ships, large warehouses, be responsible for trucking and others.
“We want freight forwarding practice to take strategic place in the economic mould that we should all be proud of in Nigeria.
“The Federal Ministry of Transportation has shown a lot of attention to this practice.”