Trucks Transit Parks Limited, TTP, has said that there is an urgent need for the implementation of Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID)/Electronic-tags and the E-Callup Interchange Transaction Number (EITN) to streamline truck movements within Lagos ports.
Disclosing this at a recent Stakeholders engagement held at the Headquarters of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, aimed at assessing the efficiency of the Electronic Call-up System amid the resurgence of traffic gridlock along the Apapa Port corridor, TTP’s Managing Director and Co-founder, Jama Onwubuariri, said that a decline in terminal efficiency contributed significantly to the persistent gridlock at port corridors; and the absence of standard, a development that has made some Parks to operate below information technology infrastructural installations standard requirements.
Onwubuailriri also said that concerns were also raised about wet cargo operations, emphasising the need for an electronic call-up system for tanker operations to alleviate congestion adding that truckers’ attitudes toward standard operating procedures for the E-callup system were also identified as a major driver of congestion.
Onwubuariri suggested the deployment of E-tags to improve the electronic callup system deployed for the Apapa and Tin-Can ports.
