NPA signs MOU with FRSC on safety standard
The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on the enforcement of safety standards in vehicles that operate to and from the ports.
Bisi Kazeem, Head Media Relations and Strategy, FRSC, the MD said the goals, would hopefully be achieved through the platform of Road Transport Safety Standardisation Scheme (RTSSS) which FRSC launched some years back to create orderliness in trucks and fleet operations.
The Managing Director, NPA, Mrs Hadiza Bala Usman stated that NPA launched an enforcement campaign for safety and minimum standards of trucks operating in ports within Lagos area, adding that it was in the effort to further upgrade and improve on the successes recorded that it adopted the FRSC’s Road Transport Safety Standardisation Scheme (RTSSS) .
The whole purpose of the MOU is to ensure a safer road environment at the Ports.