The Registrar /CEO of the Council For the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) Mr. Kingsley Igwe has charged practitioners in the clearing and Forwarding business in the Eastern ports to always maintain the standard operating procedures (SOP) in their business
He gave the charge during his first familiarization visit to the freight forwarders over the weekend in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State Capital.
Igwe, who said his cardinal objectives were to have an accurate information of the real freights forwarders, education of freight forwarders, improved welfare and ensure they key into the trade facilitation mantra of the federal government also called on them to ensure cooperation and synergy among members and other agencies of the government.
He stated that the aim of the programme was to bring education and training to the freight forwarders, terminals operators, warehouse operators among others with the view to building capacity and to find lasting solutions to issues that hamper seamless operations at the ports, which according to him include false declaration, wrong classifications disagreement in Demand Notice (DN), among others
His words: “The essence of today’s gathering is first, familiarization and synergy.”
He promised making the gathering a regular one even as he insisted he has succeeded in bringing to the fore what his regime is about to do for the stakeholders.
“We are going to bring more of this kind of gathering.”
Basically, what we have achieved today is that of fusion, as what the new regime is doing while waiting for more of the expectations of the operators under our supervision.”
Continuing, the CRFFN Boss asserted, “though information of what we have achieved so far is in the media space for everyone to access but we want to hear directly from them and also, I am taking my time to explain most of the things that are not very clear to them.”
“Today they have come to know the essence of educating and providing educational activities, which is one of the mandates of my regime.”
Besides that, we are bringing up global standard operating procedures that will be seamless in the discharge of their services.”
