Stakeholders raise alarm over foreign logistics dominance

He identified inadequate professional capacity as one of the major challenges confronting the sector, noting that Nigeria’s freight forwarding industry has, for decades, suffered from weak institutional training, inconsistent regulatory enforcement and insufficient investment in human capital.

By Godwin Oritse The Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria, CRFFN, has said that the growing participation of foreign firms in Nigeria’s freight forwarding, customs brokerage and logistics sector should be viewed as a reflection of deeper structural deficiencies rather than simply a nationality issue.

According to Nnadi, many indigenous operators have failed to prioritise investment in the sector, noting that proceeds generated from freight forwarding businesses are often channelled into ventures outside the maritime industry instead of being reinvested to expand operations, build capacity and enhance competitiveness.