Summit to discuss intermodal transport challenges, prospects for Nigeria

All is set for the maiden edition of the Nigeria Transport Sector Summit, an annual forum for all major industry players, regulators and other stakeholders, to brainstorm on issues germane to the development of the transportation sector. Organisers of the forum, the Transportation Correspondents Association of Nigeria (TCAN), said the theme of this year’s event […]

All is set for the maiden edition of the Nigeria Transport Sector Summit, an annual forum for all major industry players, regulators and other stakeholders, to brainstorm on issues germane to the development of the transportation sector.

Organisers of the forum, the Transportation Correspondents Association of Nigeria (TCAN), said the theme of this year’s event is ‘Intermodal Transport: Prospects and Challenges’.

TCAN chairman, Mr Yinka Aderibigbe, and the event’s organising committee chairman, Mr Rasheed Bisiriyu, said the programme would be held on Thursday, October 17, 2024, at the Radisson Hotel Ikeja, Lagos.

The forum is expected to be declared open by the Minister of Transportation, Senator Sa’idu Ahmed Alkali, while a former minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, will deliver the keynote address.

The statement said, “The focus on intermodal transportation in the maiden edition of the annual summit is deliberate. It is aimed at bringing together relevant stakeholders across all subsectors of the transport industry to see the need to form and work in synergy with one another, rather than working in silos and at cross-purposes, which might pose a greater challenge to achieving the dream of giving alternative travel modes to the Nigerian public.

“Such arrangement will pave the way for greater efficiency through lower costs, operational flexibility and reduced carbon emission in a world committed to cleaner environmental impact that will ultimately benefit all.”

Already, TCAN said a team of speakers had been carefully selected to do justice to the issue under focus.

It said a panel of discussants featuring some relevant members of the intelligentsia, and heads of prominent agencies/organisations will speak on the sub-themes of the summit around railway, road, inland waterways and aviation sub-sectors of the transportation industry.

An industry journal produced by TCAN would be formally unveiled as one of the high points of the event, the statement added.