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Half Year Report: NPA generates N172bn revenue, remits N78.497bn to CRF

Eze Chidozie by Eze Chidozie
August 20, 2022
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The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has announced a revenue generation of N172.286bn during the first six months of the year, 2022.
The authority also remitted the sum of N78.497bn to the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF) of the federation account during the same period.
In a statement released on Thursday by the Managing Director, Mohammed Bello Koko, a breakdown showed that the sum of N50,255,925,779.20 and N28,241,041,083.00 were cash remittances, the compulsory deduction of 25 per cent of revenue generated and other sundry payments for the absolute period of January-June 2022 and remittance with respect to other periods respectively.
He said that the half-year operational statistics as encouraging in view of the global economic meltdown and worrisome inflation trends across nations.
Part of the statement reads, “Global economic and inflation crises, global reduction in household incomes and purchasing power and scarcity of foreign exchange all of which has negatively affected business environment, affected government revenue and constrained expenditure.
“The development in the port industry cannot be severed from the macro-economic environment with galloping inflation that has grossly reduced the disposable income of the households, the depreciating exchange rates that stifle business environment and the dwindling government revenue that constrains expenditure.
“In the face of these harsh macro-economic indices, the NPA has forged on to deliver port and harbour services to the teeming operators in the export and import businesses across the country.”
The Managing Director also said that remittances were clear expressions of the operational performance of ports operations as well as attendant current challenges in cargo ship calls and dwell time.

According to him, “In the first half of 2022, a total of 1,992 ships calls were recorded and the aggregate of the Gross Registered tonnage (GRT) of vessels was 60,235,133 tons.
“The Authority achieved total cargo throughput of 38,672,392 metric tonnes and 849,175 teus (twenty-foot equivalent units) of container traffic. Vehicle traffic handled, during the period under review, was 132,543 units.
“Also, the average turn-around-time (TAT) of vessels, indicating port efficiency, stood at 5.16days. This is an improvement and we are strategising to perform better in the second half of the year.
“Port remains the gateway of the national economy, and thus represents the barometer by which we measure the pulse of the economy.

“The Authority remains committed to providing improved services to increase efficiency at the ports that impact on higher revenue generation and economic growth of the nation.”

He also said that among improvement in some areas were the deployment of marine crafts at all ports locations; marking/laying of buoys at Calabar and Escravos Channel to improve safe navigation; encouraging the use of Eastern Port by way of incentives to importers on port charges.
There have also been deployment of security patrol boats to increase safety along the Port Quays; and repairs/ rehabilitation of ports’ access roads to improve cargo evacuation and dwell time, he said.

According to him, “The improvements include deployment of barges for cargo evacuation to reduce traffic gridlock on the roads; licencing of export processing terminals in order to support the federal government’s initiative on increase in non-oil exports; creating MSS for barge operations in order to improve multi-modal means of cargo movement; and, working on initiatives to improve on staff members’ welfare.”

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