NPA Managing Director David Williams made the disclosure at commissioning of the Aids to Navigation and Contingency Fuel Uploading Facility at the Free Port in Monrovia by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Friday.
Williams said the facility represents not only a milestone accomplishment by the government, but also a major leap in its strive to make her port regionally competitive and efficient.
He pointed out that the commissioning of the facility is also another step further along the competitive continuum in the government’s effort to have a modernized and full-service port and hugely significant for the accomplishment of the government’s development agenda.
The NPA boss indicated that the Contingency Fuel Unloading Facility provides government an alternative to continue the supply of petroleum products on the local market in the event that the fragile and old Fuel Unloading Facility, currently in use, fails.
According to him the facility was jointly paid for by the National Port Authority and Liberia Petroleum Refinery Company (LPRC) and called on both institutions and other stakeholders, including APM Terminals, BIVAC, among others, to be ready to provide the services, because it will boost trade and commerce and the economy.
Meanwhile, NPA Managing Director has named the pavement of internal roads within the port with lights and modern drainages to support the 24-hour service as well as the renovation of the Port of Harper to encourage trade to that part of the country since the civil war, as two of the ongoing projects by the NPA in support of the government’s Agenda for Transformation.
He also pointed to discussions on the dredging of the Port of Monrovia, the Kuwait Fund loan for the rehabilitation of Greenville Port, the PPP solicitation for the development of the Port of Greenville as well as the Bollore or joint Venture operation of the Port of Buchanan are well on course.
He lauded President Sirleaf for the support and mentorship she continues to provide the Port’s Management team that has led to the success they now enjoy as clearly demonstrated through the commissioning of the Contingency Fuel Unloading Facility and the Aids to Navigation.
An Aid to Navigation is any device external to a vessel or aircraft specifically intended to assist navigators in determining their position or safe course, or to warn them of dangers or obstructions to navigation while.
The program was graced by senior members of the government, including the Information Minister Lenn Eugene Nagbe, LPRC Managing Director Sumo Kupee as well as officials of APM Terminals and BIVAC, among others.
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NPA Resumes 24hr Service After 30 Years
20 May 2016, 8:02 pm Written by Prince S. Nagbe
MONROVIA, May 20 (LINA) - The National Port Authority (NPA) has said it is now fully prepared to take the Free Port of Monrovia from a 12-hour to a 24-hour service port for the first time in 30 years.
NPA Managing Director David Williams made the disclosure at commissioning of the Aids to Navigation and Contingency Fuel Uploading Facility at the Free Port in Monrovia by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Friday.
Williams said the facility represents not only a milestone accomplishment by the government, but also a major leap in its strive to make her port regionally competitive and efficient.
He pointed out that the commissioning of the facility is also another step further along the competitive continuum in the government’s effort to have a modernized and full-service port and hugely significant for the accomplishment of the government’s development agenda.
The NPA boss indicated that the Contingency Fuel Unloading Facility provides government an alternative to continue the supply of petroleum products on the local market in the event that the fragile and old Fuel Unloading Facility, currently in use, fails.
According to him the facility was jointly paid for by the National Port Authority and Liberia Petroleum Refinery Company (LPRC) and called on both institutions and other stakeholders, including APM Terminals, BIVAC, among others, to be ready to provide the services, because it will boost trade and commerce and the economy.
Meanwhile, NPA Managing Director has named the pavement of internal roads within the port with lights and modern drainages to support the 24-hour service as well as the renovation of the Port of Harper to encourage trade to that part of the country since the civil war, as two of the ongoing projects by the NPA in support of the government’s Agenda for Transformation.
He also pointed to discussions on the dredging of the Port of Monrovia, the Kuwait Fund loan for the rehabilitation of Greenville Port, the PPP solicitation for the development of the Port of Greenville as well as the Bollore or joint Venture operation of the Port of Buchanan are well on course.
He lauded President Sirleaf for the support and mentorship she continues to provide the Port’s Management team that has led to the success they now enjoy as clearly demonstrated through the commissioning of the Contingency Fuel Unloading Facility and the Aids to Navigation.
An Aid to Navigation is any device external to a vessel or aircraft specifically intended to assist navigators in determining their position or safe course, or to warn them of dangers or obstructions to navigation while.
The program was graced by senior members of the government, including the Information Minister Lenn Eugene Nagbe, LPRC Managing Director Sumo Kupee as well as officials of APM Terminals and BIVAC, among others.
LINA PSN/PTK