Ports Authority, Army College of Logistics partner on capacity building

The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has said it will sustain the existing partnership with the Army College of Logistics to enable it benefit from the logistics experience of the college.

Speaking when the team of army logistics led by Major Gen. Richard Duru, Commandant of the college, paid a working visit to the management of the NPA, Idris Abubakar, executive director, Engineering and Technical Services, said that in order to standardise operations at the nation’s seaports, the Authority would tap into the knowledge of the logistics professionals of the Nigerian army.

Abubakar, who represented the managing director, Hadiza Bala-Usman, offered a common area of confluence of understanding and information sharing to necessitate basic solutions to questions requiring answer in the dual-collaboration involving both agencies of government.

Earlier, Major Gen. Richard Duru said that being a crucial hub for national logistics supply chain, the NPA deserves support from all and sundry with the view to ensuring that necessary variables are deployed expectedly.

He said the Army College of Logistics would be ready to partner with the NPA and other government agencies in the area of offering training facilities of repute manpower development to employees, thereby contributing meaningful in enhancing the logistics at the Ports.

He commended the various successes recorded by Bala-Usman led NPA and expressed optimism that NPA would surpass greater expectations placed on them by stakeholders.

On safety and security, he opined that nothing should be allowed to mortgage societal safety, adding that the issue of conflict, peace and harmony are among the art of societal living that are prioritised into the front burner to not only safeguard the society but to contribute effectively to the Ease of Doing Business at the ports.

AMAKA ANAGOR