Managing Director and Chief Executive of Truck Transit Park Limited (TTP) Jamal Onwubuariri has said that that the infrastructure and technology deployment at Nigerian ports and border posts are still not sufficient for the volume of cargoes that comes into the country.
Jamal stated this while speaking at the 2025 Transport Summit organized by the Transport Correspondents Association of Nigeria (TCAN) on the theme; Driving the Transport Logistics Value Chains for Economic Growth ” held at Radisson Hotel, Ikeja Lagos on Wednesday.
In his goodwill messsge at the summit, the TTP boss revealed that “In July, I took a 6000Km road trip from Nigeria to Liberia in enable me see what our road transport infrastructure is like, the challenges and the opportunities.
“We have infrastructure gaps, the roads we have, both here in Nigeria and across the West African region is not sufficient for the volume of road traffic.
The second challenge is that our ports in terms of their infrastructure and technology deployment is not sufficient for the Volume of cargoes that comes into this region”
Onwubuariri also stated that apart from challenges of road and port infrastructure, delays at the borders is another challenge.
“I saw Nigerian drivers who are driving from Sokoto, taking cargo to either Tema Port or Abidjan port, it could be Tomatoes or yams or onions, and they spend two to three weeks on the roads to deliver these cargoes and return.
What this means is that, they don’t spend quality times with their families, they don’t have rest areas where they can stop and rest the night.
In terms of opportunities, technology companies like TTP can assist the government at borders posts and at ports, in order to put in place technological solutions that would enhance movement of goods and people.
“We need to invest more in infrastructure and our government alone cannot take it, there are lots of money floating around, both informally and formally ,that private companies can invest in infrastructures, rest stops and even technology in order to drive trade and drive investments”, he stated.
