Shippers’ Council stops new port charge introduced by shipping firms

THE Nigerian Shippers’ Council, NSC, has ordered shipping companies to vacate the off-dock terminal charge of N70,000 per container which they introduced about a month ago.

Speaking to Vanguard in Lagos, Executive Secretary of the Council, Mr. Hassan Bello, said that the agency has met with one of the shipping companies, Mediterranean Shipping Company, MSC, to return to status quo.

Bello said that the terminal charge was never discussed, neither was it approved by the Council.

Reacting to the development, Clarion Shipping Company Limited, operator of Clarion Bonded Terminal, a vehicle terminal in Lagos, has charged it’s importers to stop using MSC Shipping Company to freight their cargoes following the introduction of the off- dock terminal charge.

Vanguard, JUNE 5, 2018

 

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