Due to customs server failure, Nigeria port goods are slow!
- Author:BESSON
- Release Date:2021-08-21
Recently, the servers in Nigeria's main ports have repeatedly failed, bringing huge losses to port operators. It is estimated that in the past two weeks, the importers and freight forwarders paid more than 485 million yuan to the terminal operators and shipping companies.
Nigeria is mainly served by the APAPA and Tin Can Islands in Lagos, which has super congestion due to insufficient automation and lack of railway transportation. Super congestion appears in these ports. Nigeria Harbor Terminal Operator Association (STOAN) estimates that this congestion causes $ 55 million in economic losses per day.
In an interview with the Guardian, the African Professional Freight Forwarder and Logistics Association Nigeria Branch Otumba Frank Ogunojemite complained that the Nigeria Customs (NCS) server has been down straight in the past two weeks. Therefore, the slowness of the customs work is inconvenient to the cargo clearance of the port terminal. Ogunojemite said: "Take a look at the number of vessels arriving, then multiply the number of containers on the ship, there are about 2,000, you will find that in just two weeks in the server failure, we pay more than 2 million Nigeriana (About 485 million US dollars). "
Stoan spokesperson Bolaji Akinola said that lack of scanners and excessive manual operations make NCS a biggest obstacle to trade facilitation of the country. Akinola believes that it is time when NCS upgrade servers and other digital platforms, because there is no investment in modern information technology, the port operation is affected, but also hinders customs taxation, constitutes the country's capital.
NCS National Public Relations Authority said when confirming the incident: "We can't determine the reason for the server interruption, the IT architecture that promotes the customs operation is managed by WebB Fontaine. When we spoke, they have not yet published any statements to solve this Question. Last weekend, all personnel have worked hard to ensure that the system returns to normal. "
At present, some goods transported to Nigeria are transsing from Ghana, Cameroon and Côte d'Ivoire.
Nigeria is mainly served by the APAPA and Tin Can Islands in Lagos, which has super congestion due to insufficient automation and lack of railway transportation. Super congestion appears in these ports. Nigeria Harbor Terminal Operator Association (STOAN) estimates that this congestion causes $ 55 million in economic losses per day.
In an interview with the Guardian, the African Professional Freight Forwarder and Logistics Association Nigeria Branch Otumba Frank Ogunojemite complained that the Nigeria Customs (NCS) server has been down straight in the past two weeks. Therefore, the slowness of the customs work is inconvenient to the cargo clearance of the port terminal. Ogunojemite said: "Take a look at the number of vessels arriving, then multiply the number of containers on the ship, there are about 2,000, you will find that in just two weeks in the server failure, we pay more than 2 million Nigeriana (About 485 million US dollars). "
Stoan spokesperson Bolaji Akinola said that lack of scanners and excessive manual operations make NCS a biggest obstacle to trade facilitation of the country. Akinola believes that it is time when NCS upgrade servers and other digital platforms, because there is no investment in modern information technology, the port operation is affected, but also hinders customs taxation, constitutes the country's capital.
NCS National Public Relations Authority said when confirming the incident: "We can't determine the reason for the server interruption, the IT architecture that promotes the customs operation is managed by WebB Fontaine. When we spoke, they have not yet published any statements to solve this Question. Last weekend, all personnel have worked hard to ensure that the system returns to normal. "
At present, some goods transported to Nigeria are transsing from Ghana, Cameroon and Côte d'Ivoire.