Shipping Manifest

CRFFN gets FG approval to collect transaction fees, others 

 

The Federal Government has approved the collection of transaction fees for the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN).

Also approved by the Federal Government for CRFFN are registration and annual subscription fees.

In a letter with reference number T.0160/S.172/1 dated 3^rdJuly, 2012, titled RE: REPORT ON THE STAKEHOLDERS MEETINGS ON THE ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION AND OTHER FEES TO BE COLLECTED BY THE COUNCIL FOR THE REGULATION OF FREIGHT FORWARDING IN NIGERIA (CRFFN ) addressed to Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and signed by the Deputy Director, SDM, D. M. Dauda for the minister, the government approved transaction fees for airports, seaports and land borders cargoes.

While N1.5 kobo was approved for air cargoes per kilo, N1,000 and N2,000, respectively, were approved for twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) and forty-foot equivalent unit (FEUs) of containers.

The rates include: cars/ jeeps, N500; trucks or a 20-foot container, N1,000; trucks or a 40-foot container, N2,000; general cargo, N3.50k per ton; and dry bulk cargo, N1 per ton.  

Going by imports at the seaports in the country in 2011, which stood at 817, 246 TEUs and the approval of N1,000 per TEU, the council is expected to collect N817,246,000 and even more with the expected cargo increases at the seaports this year and in subsequent years.

This also goes for vehicular imports, from which the council is expected to generate N115,711,500, going by the vehicular imports that stood at 231,423 last year, using N500 per car import.

General cargoes and dry bulk cargoes, respectively, are expected to generate into the council coffers the sums of N46, 497,377 and N12, 877,488, going by this year's trend of traffic at the ports.

Government equally approved various registration fees for Nigerians and non-Nigerians, ranging from N7,500 to N50,000, depending on the category of a person's membership.

Also annual subscription fees ranging from N10, 000 to N60, 000 were equally approved, depending on a person's category of membership.

And to ensure compliance, the ministry directed the Central Office Planning and Information (COPI) of the NPA to "henceforth forward copies of all cargo manifests received to the CRFFN."

The memo stated further: "In addition, the CRFFN should be represented at the Berthing Committee Meetings of the NPA."