Nigerian exports experts have stated that facilities across the nation’s airports are insufficient to cater for large volumes of cargoes. Currently, avia-cargo is a big business that combines speed and efficiency in delivery and airports are key facilitators of the cargo exports from one country to another.
According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), air cargo transports over $6 trillion worth of goods annually, accounting for approximately 35 percent of world trade by value. In the first half of 2021, a total of 16.7 tons of cargo was exported through airports across the world. And in the same period in 2022, a total of 17.7 was exported, leading to a 6.2 percent increase from the 2021 export figure.
But, in same period in 2023, a total of about 12.9 tons was airlifted, leading to a further drop by 29.5 percent. In a bid to mitigate this decline, Kabir Yusuf Mohammed, managing director FAAN said that in December 2022, his organization assembled the best brains from various aviation cargo private and institutional stakeholders and made them a Avia-Cargo Committee to chart an implementable way forward for Nigeria to take the rightful number one position in Avia-Cargo exports in Africa within the next few years.
Source: businessday.ng
