International buying and selling: NPA boss Dantsoho woos buyers at Kaduna commerce honest
Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Dr. Abubakar Dantsoho, has urged merchants, exporters and buyers to leverage newly simplified export channels launched to reposition Nigeria as a aggressive world buying and selling nation.
Talking throughout the “NPA Particular Day” on the Kaduna Worldwide Commerce Truthful 2026, Dantsoho stated the Authority has rolled out tailored processes aimed toward dismantling long-standing bureaucratic bottlenecks that beforehand discouraged participation within the export worth chain.
He stated: “Let me seize the event of this ‘NPA Particular Day’ to ask all the buying and selling and investing public to discover the tailored simplified export processes and different vistas of alternative current on the Nigerian Ports Authority,” he stated.
He defined that the reforms are designed to spice up non-oil exports, enhance Nigeria’s stability of commerce and combine producers from the hinterland into world provide chains.
A key pillar of the reform, he famous, is the institution of Export Course of Terminals (EPTs), structured as one-stop hubs for cargo consolidation, stuffing, packaging, documentation, certification and digital cargo scheduling.
“The Export Course of Terminals have been conceptualized to simplify what was a burdensome export course of. At this time, exporters can full documentation, packaging and cargo coordination in a seamless and environment friendly method,” Dantsoho acknowledged.
Based on him, the EPTs are electronically built-in with port operations by the call-up system to make sure quicker cargo evacuation, lowered congestion and improved turnaround time.
To deepen port-hinterland connectivity, the NPA can also be working in synergy with the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) and different companions to hyperlink the EPTs with Home Export Warehouses (DEWs), thereby creating structured pathways for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to take part extra successfully in worldwide commerce.
“We’re decided to hyperlink worth creators within the remotest a part of the hinterland with the farthest clusters of demand wherever on the globe,” he declared.
Dantsoho emphasised that commerce stays essentially the most viable instrument for reaching Nigeria’s {economic} aspirations, notably because the nation intensifies efforts to diversify away from oil dependence.
He additional highlighted ongoing efforts towards full automation of port operations by the implementation of the Nationwide Single Window (NSW), which he described as a worldwide finest apply in commerce facilitation.
“The Nationwide Single Window will ship the best worth with the best ease by enabling stakeholders to work together on the push of a button,” he defined.
The initiative, he added, aligns with the Federal Authorities’s renewed export orientation and native content material growth agenda.
Describing Kaduna as a strategic industrial hub, Dantsoho stated its geographic positioning as a gateway to the northern hinterland and neighbouring landlocked international locations locations it on the coronary heart of Nigeria’s export growth technique.
“The strategic positioning of Kaduna as a melting pot of inhabitants, commerce and transportation presents enormous alternatives for linking native producers to worldwide clusters of demand,” he stated.
Reaffirming the Authority’s openness to collaboration, the NPA boss assured stakeholders of sustained partnerships past the commerce honest.
“Our doorways stay open for partnerships as we work collectively to strengthen Nigeria’s home economic system by enhanced commerce facilitation,” he added.