The Nigerian Shippers Council NSC has said that its decision to
reintroduce the Cargo Tracking Note CTN into Nigeria’s shipping was
partly informed by the need to checkmate the growing underdeclaration of
imported cargo, insisting that over 80 per cent of all imported cargo
does not reflect the true volume and value.
Meanwhile, the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria MAN, and the
Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industries, Mines and
Agriculture NACCIMA have given provisional approval for the
reintroduction of the system provided that it does not inflict
additional cost on importers and exporters.
Executive Secretary/CEO of the council, Mr. Hassan Bello, who spoke
with news men in Lagos, said that the Federal Government loses huge sums
of money due to deliberate underdeclaration of ship tonnage over the
years.
According to him, more often than not when ships coming to Nigeria
declare 30, 000 Gross Tonnage GRT, the tonnage is usually higher because
of the unspecific nature of the bill of laden, which is the only
document that contains the ship information.
“CTN will checkmate underdeclaration of the GRT of any ship because
it will state in specific terms the nature or type of the consignment
and volume in terms of the tonnage while the bill of laden will just
say: ‘said to contain’”, he said.
He also said: “The CTN is a major step towards a national single
window platform that would connect all the other government private
agencies operating at the ports including the Nigeria Customs Service,
The Nigerian Ports Authority and Standards Organisation of Nigeria etc”.
Investigations showed that in most other climes, the national single
window is run by independent organisations not necessarily the customs
administration or the port authority, as stakeholders have argued that
the case must not be different.
It was also gathered that the public outcry that trailed the
introduction of the CTN by NPA was because it was tied to revenue
generation, as importers alleged then that they were compelled to pay
150 Euros on every container they imported while the policy lasted.
The NSC-boss noted that in addition to check revenue losses to the
government through the underdeclaration of the GRT of the ships, the CTN
would also boost Nigeria’s compliance with the International Ships and
Ports facility Security ISPS Code. Following the plans to reintroduce
the system, the NSC had commenced consultations with relevant
stakeholders including Customs, NPA, freight forwarders and more
recently MAN and NACCIMA. President MAN, Mr. Frank Njemba- Jacobs, who
played host to the NSC team during one of such sensitization visits,
assured that his association would support the reintroduction of the
CTN, which is expected to bring about advance cargo information system
into the country.
He however gave a caveat that the one and only condition on which
members of the association, which is the biggest group for real sector
operators was that it would not inflict additional cost on shippers. The
MAN-boss said: “We are satisfied with all the explanations that the NSC
has given to us but we think that the technical members of all the
stakeholders should get together and further discuss it”.
“But I think it is something that will help us, so we are going to
support it at the end. We are hoping that it will not attract any
additional cost to the manufacturers in view of the fact that we want to
make sure that cost of doing business is reduced, Jacobs also said.
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