Adewunmi: Freight Business Moving Online Post-Covid-19

Managing Director/CEO of PrimePort Logistics, a cargo service company, Mr. Femi Adewunmi in this interview says the coronavirus pandemic has drastically changed the sub-sector; saying that cargo freighting will move online post COVID-19 and may lead to the phasing out of clearing agents. Chinedu Eze brings the excerpts: Today most people get on average 4 to 6 hours of exercise …

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Only cargo freight businesses with the right structures will survive post-covid-19

Otunba Femi Adewunmi is the managing director/CEO of PrimePort Logistics, a cargo service company. In this interview, he speaks on how covid-19 is changing the cargo freight business in Nigeria. Today most people get on average 4 to 6 hours of exercise every day, and make sure that everything they put in their mouths is not filled with sugars or …

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Firm To Revive Cargo Freighting At PHIA

Despite the quantity of heavy and light equipment used in oil and gas activities being imported into the country, the cargo freighting department of the Port Harcourt. International Airport Omagwa is under developed. Stakeholders say most clearing and forwarding company that land this cargo in the country preferred to clear these imports from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport due to …

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Port Harcourt airport loses N4.7b cargo revenue — Adewunmi

The Chairman of PrimePort Logistics ,Mr Femi Adewunmi, has revealed that Port Harcourt International Airport, Port Harcourt, Rivers States, has been losing an annual cargo revenue of about 4.7 billion Naira due to underutilization by freight forwarders. According to Adewunmi, out of the 25% of the cargo that is supposed to come to Port Harcourt and environs, only 2.5% currently …

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Primeport Logistics simplifies cargo clearing at PH airport

In affirmation of its resolve to contribute its quota to simplifying cargo clearing process at the international airport, Primeport Logistics has disbursed 25 new walkie-talkie to various stakeholders in the cargo section of the airport. The new gadgets, the firm says, will no doubt ease cargo clearing process at the airport as well as boost… Source: Business Day

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Hostile business environment scuttling N630bn air cargo business in PH

Hostile business environment coupled with lack of a well structured cargo clearing market in Nigeria’s oil rich South South region is scuttling N630 billion air cargo clearing business at the Port Harcourt international airport. The relatively vague market operated by very informal agents in contrast to the well organised Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, has… Source: Business Day

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PrimePort Logistics moves to leverage on N5bn PH cargo business

Poised to offer clients a fresh breath in door-to-door freights services and delivery within Port Harcourt and its environment, PrimePort Logistics, a cargo firm, is set to leverage on the estimated N5bn cargo clearing business at Port Harcourt International airport. Cargo clearing at the international airport has been tipped by market watchers as a goldmine worth currently N5bn with only …

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Cargo market worth N600b

THE air freight cargo business in the country is worth N6billion, the Chairman, PrimePorts Logistics, Mr Femi Adewunmi, has said. Limiting the business to a few operators in select airports, Adewunmi said, could stall the growth of freight from countries, such as the United Kingdom (UK), United States (US), China and the Middle East. Adewunmi, who spoke with The Nation, …

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