The emerging cargo Airport at Ogun State will be one of the exhibitors at Chinet Aviacargo Expo.
This is just as One of Nigeria’s most innovative financial institutions, Sterling Bank is reinforcing its emerging position as the biggest supporter of transport and travel businesses in Nigeria. Sterling is partnering with the First aviation and cargo conference to help grow export and cargo business through the airports.
It is on record that Nigeria imports hundreds of tonnes of cargo by air every day but return very little exports by air.
Freighters arrive Nigerian airports every day fully ladden but leave empty.
To address this problem, Chinet Aviacargo Conference is bringing together top players in aviation, logistics, export and support businesses to a 2 day conference and exhibition in Lagos.
Sterling Bank is noted to have been consistent in engaging entrepreneurs and startups in the trade and travel sectors of the economy.
The Aviacargo Conference provides another opportunity to further engage with stakeholders.
Speaking on the conference, Managing Director of Sterling Bank, Abubakar Suleiman said: “Aviation is a key part of the transportation sector in Nigeria. And as the T in our HEART strategy, our commitment to growing the transportation sector, as with health, education, agriculture and renewable energy in Nigeria, remains total as we believe in the importance of these towards Nigeria’s economic rebirth and prosperity.”
During the conference, Ogun State, Commissioner of Finance and the Chief Economic Adviser, Ogun State, Dapo Okubadejo will engage aviation and cargo experts on the advanced plan and implementation of the Ogun Cargo Airport Project.
Also Nigerian Civil Aviation Agency (NCAA), Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and Nigerian Export Promotions Council (NEPC) will be joined by the Standard Organisations of Nigeria (SON), the Nigerian Investment Promotion Council (NIPC) and the Nigerian Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA) during the 2 day stakeholder engagement coming up on August 25 and 26, 2021.
The Chinet Expo is expected to raise a checklist of actionable plans that will enable government, exporters and cargo handlers improve on the existing situation.
A leading exporter and Head of the Agro Set up Committee, Capt John Okakpu will be sharing his experience.
Also a 30 man committee set up by the Federal Ministry of Trade is expected to take goods from the farm to the table.
The export group of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and industry (LCCI) is also expected to be well represented at the event.
Similarly, gladiators in insurance sector of the economy, National Insurance Commisioner (NICOM) have teamed up to engage with aviation and logistics stakeholders at the upcoming event.
The insurance session will will witness the presentation of its paper by the Chairman, Boff and Company Insurance Brokers Ltd, Chief Babajide Olatunde-Agbeja, on the Role of Insurance in Aviation Business.
There has been growing complaints among aviation stakeholders that insurance companies in Nigeria lack the capacity to handle aviation business in Nigeria.
These complaints include that of the high premiums paid by Nigerian airlines to foreign insurance companies which keeps rising every year because of presumed country’s risk issues.
This, has no doubt affected the air fares and the Nigerian economy.
Chief Olatunde-Agbeja who would be supported by leading insurance companies and their Chief executives, is expected to bring his over 40 Years experience at the highest level of insurance brokerage to the conference.
The session on insurance will include question and answers to effectively engage the players in the entire value chain of aviation.
The Nigeria Export Promotion Council (NEPC) and the Nigerian Export Processing Zone Authority (NEPZA) will be making presentations on how exporters can be assisted to do more through aviation.
Special Guests of Honour at the conference include the Chairman, Senate Committee on Aviation, Senator Smart Adeyemi and his House of Representatives’ Committee counterpart, Honorable Nnolim Nnaji
With the involvement of more Stakeholders indicating their attendance at the conference, the organisers insisted that only registered delegates will be allowed into the venue. Because of the Covid19 Protocols.
All delegates must register and receive their tags before or on August 10.
The gazetting of four airports as Export Processing Zones (EPZ) has brought to fore the Importance of the Nigerian Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA) to the growth of Aviacargo in Nigeria. NEPZA will be at CHINET to Showcase the Opportunities available to Investors at the Airports.
NEPC and NEPZA will be joining the FAAN and Ethiopian Airlines as major partners of the first Aviacargo event in Nigeria. The two leading groune handling companies in Nigeria NAHCO and SAHCO are expected to play major roles at the event
The conveners of this event, Atqnews a Global Pan African travel news organisation said the conference is long overdue.
“Nigeria, a country with over 200 million resourceful people depends a lot on imports which has been eroding the national wealth. A lot of airlines bring freighters fully laden daily to Nigeria and most of them fly out empty. There is therefore a need to reverse this dysfunctional scenario. Nigeria needs to export more and aviation should be the key to increasing exports,”the organisers explained.
At the End of the two day event “we will be leaving the event with enough knowledge about the current development in aviation industry in Nigeria and its roles at growing the economy through increased cargo export from Nigeria.
With this, Mr. Ikechi Uko, Publisher Atqnews organisers of the event, said,” with better understanding of the cargo and export systems, we can integrate our systems by networking and learning from one other; as problems shared eventually become problems solved.”
