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The Transportation Correspondents Association of Nigeria (TCAN), says its maiden edition of the Nigeria Transport Sector Summit will address the intermodal transport challenges and prospects for Nigeria.
This is contained in a statement issued on Monday, in Lagos, by the TCAN Chairman, Mr Yinka Aderibigbe, and the event’s Organising Committee Chairman, Mr Rasheed Bisiriyu.
According to the statement, the summit is an annual forum for all major industry players, regulators and other stakeholders, to brainstorm on issues germane to the development of the transportation sector.
It said that the summit which would be held on Oct. 17 at the Radisson Hotel Ikeja, Lagos, had the theme: ‘Intermodal Transport: Prospects and Challenges’.
“The forum is expected to be declared open by the Minister of Transportation, Sen. Sa’idu Ahmed Alkali, while former Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, will deliver the keynote address.
“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.
“The working in silos and cross-purposes might pose greater challenge to achieving the dream of giving alternative travel modes to the Nigerian public,” it said.
The TCAN team said that such arrangement would pave 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.
“A team of speakers has been carefully selected to do justice to the issue under focus.
“A panel of discussants featuring some relevant members of the intelligentsia, heads of prominent agencies/organisations will speak to 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 will be formally unveiled as one of the highpoints of the event, the statement said.
