Why discussion on truck acquisition loan is stalled —AMATO

PLANS by the Association of Maritime Truck Owners, AMATO, to re-new their truck fleet with funding supports from government may have been stalled by the absences of a truck terminal and notorious Apapa port traffic.

The Nigerian Shippers Council, NSC, National Automative Council, NAC, and AMATO have been in discussion for provision of loans to members of AMATO for acquisition of new trucks.

Disclosing this to Vanguard Maritime Report in Lagos, President of AMATO, Remi Ogungbemi, said that they made both the NSC and NAC know that the first thing to do is the provision of a modern truck terminal to protect the trucks to be acquired.

Ogungbemi said without the terminal, the alternative is for the new truck to be added to the already bad situation by the present number of trucks on the roads occasioned by the bad port access roads and congestion at the ports.

Vanguard, January 9, 2019

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