Peterside identifies maritime, logistics as heartbeat of globalisation
Dakuku Peterside, director-general of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), has described the maritime and logistics sectors as the driving force behind globalisation.
Speaking at the inauguration of council members of the Chattered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) and investiture of fellowship awards in Lagos recently, Peterside said that NIMASA was working hard to ensure that Nigeria continued to position itself to benefit optimally from international transport and logistics.
“The maritime sector is all about movement of goods from one point to another and this cannot be done without the logistics sector. This is a confirmation of the fact that everything about trade and development depend solely on logistics,” he said.
Peterside, who spoke after the investiture of the fellowship awards, assured that the inducted fellows will work together to ensure quick passage of the Act establishing the CILT.
Earlier, Jibril Ibrahim, national president of CILT, called for the passage of the institute’s bill, which he says is needed to propel the institute into organising the logistics sector and to ensure adequate training of practitioners.
Ibrahim, who doubles as director, Maritime Labour Services of NIMASA, called for more inter-agency collaboration to solve the problem of traffic congestion at the port area.
Obiora Madu, director-general of the African Centre for Supply Chains, who was the chairman of the occasion, called for a stronger partnership with the various agencies in the area of capacity building.
The highpoint of the event was the award of fellowship to deserving industry stakeholders, who have contributed to the growth of the maritime sector. The inductees were Peterside; Hadiza Bala Usman, managing director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), and Jonas Nilsson, managing director of Creseda International Limited.