Following discussions by maritime stakeholders on issues affecting development of the sector at the Transport Leadership Lecture organized by Kings Communication Company, the following recommendations have been  forwarded to government in order to improve port operations and boost the economy.
After careful observation, maritime stakeholders agreed that :
(1) The system needs a complete overhaul, starting afresh in accordance with what obtains in the 21st Century;

(2) If the leadership content of the problems is adequately addressed, other problems would have been solved;

(3) The starting point is to appoint skilled, competent and experienced persons into leadership positions in the transport industry;

(4) Enthroning efficient leadership succession plan is of essence in growing the industry;

(5) The right leadership, with the cooperation of other stakeholders, and investments in requisite infrastructure should be able to actualise a competitive, coordinated or integrated inter-modal transport system;

(6) The Minister of Transport needs to set up a committee, comprising knowledgeable stakeholders, to make recommendations to promote the industry  through a review of the reports of the various other committees that government had been setting up over the years, but did not deploy the reports and instead allowed the documents to waste away in storage;
(7) There is need for independent knowledge-based research to provide vital information to drive the industry efficiently through requisite policy formulation and implementation;

(8) A well-organised transportation system in Nigeria could easily be the country’s life-wire, as being experienced in Ethiopia, which has a world-class airline, and, even though a landlocked country, a viable fleet of ocean-going vessels;

(9) Endowed with, among others, land mass, burgeoning population, idle waterways, and people and
agriculture products waiting to be moved from one end of the country to the other safely, Nigeria only requires to move her transport industry from the present pedestrian state by having the blueprint on transport in place and provide the wherewithal that would drive the change agenda; and

(10) There is a great future for the transportation industry in Nigeria, but stakeholders must harness all the material and human resources into a workable format that would usher in a well-developed transport industry befitting the status of Nigeria.