Unregistered agents to lose access to ports — CRFFN

FREIGHT forwarders operating in the Nigerian seaport, airport and land border stations who are yet to register with the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) may soon lose access to the ports across the nation as they will no longer be allowed to carry on their businesses in the ports.

The Chairman, Governing Council of CRFFN, Alhaji Abubakar Tsanni who made this known while addressing journalists in Lagos recently said the Council would soon commence enforcement to rid the ports of unregistered practitioners.

In his words,” On the issue of registration, very soon, it is going to be enforced in all our ports and in the industry. Anybody who is not a registered member of CRFFN will not do any business in the port and also with the Customs. So, everybody must register with CRFFN.

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“Anybody that did not register with CRFFN, will not have any business in NPA and by God’s grace, we are paying a courtesy call next week to the CG of Customs. We will reiterate it there that anybody who is not registered with the CRFFN will not have any business with Customs too”.

Tsanni further disclosed that the Council would embark on training of freight forwarders even as he insisted that it is only those who are in possession of the CRFFN identity cards that would be allowed access into the ports.

He stated that the Council had already embarked on courtesy visit to registered freight forwarding associations with the aim of discussing with them to ascertain what their problems were and how they would assist them in solving the problems that they presented to the Council.

He also said that the Council would hold three town hall meetings, one in Lagos, the other in Port-Harcourt while the third would be in Kano where they expect to meet with all of the freight forwarders.