Experts call for port automation to save N47bn yearly demurrage

L-R: Justice Tsoho John Terhemba, chief judge, Federal High Court Nigeria; Emmanuel Jime, executive secretary of the Nigerian Shippers Council; Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, the acting chief justice of Nigeria, and Justice Bode Rhodes-Vivour (rtd), the chairman of the occasion, at the just concluded 3-day Maritime Seminar for Judges organised by the Nigerian Shippers' Council (NSC) in collaboration with the National Judicial Institute in Abuja.

Nigerian shippers have been losing huge sums yearly to the payment of demurrage and storage charges due to the delay in clearing goods at the nation’s seaport. Alarmingly, shippers lost over N47 billion to payment of demurrage to shipping companies alone in 2020, this was aside from the monies

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