Automating Nigeria’s Ports – #AreteNews

There are several challenges affecting maritime trade in Nigeria. One major issue is congested ports which leads to delays and costs millions of naira in wasted time and long delivery times.

In an interview with This Day Business, the Acting Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Mohammed Bello Koko, spoke about the plan to automate the ports better using the Eto, an electronic truck call-up system that was deployed in February 2021 by the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA).

On the Eto system, having experimented with a manual truck scheduling arrangement for over a year, the authority has introduced an electronic truck call-up system in February to streamline truck movements and eliminate traffic congestion in and around the port area. The system is to be rolled out in Lagos where Nigeria’s two busiest ports are situated and will effectively see all trucks doing business at the port in Lagos required to park at approved truck parks until they are called up into the port through an app called Eto.

The Eto application is for the scheduling, entry, and exit of cargo trucks into the port, and truck companies, terminal operators, and freight agents will be required to download the app, and then proceed to create an account to monitor the schedule and movement of their trucks.

You can read more about it here – “Full Automation of Ports is our Goal” 

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