Nigeria’s Roll-On-Roll-Off (RORO) terminal, Ports and Terminal Multiservices Limited (PTML) and its parent company, Grimaldi Nigeria have jointly donated a total of N150million, 10,000 nose masks and 5,000 hand gloves to various arms of government in support of the fight against the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country.
While PTML donated N100 million to the Federal Government’s COVID-19 Relief Fund Account created by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Grimaldi Nigeria donated N50million to the Lagos State Government.
PTML also donated 10,000 nose masks and 5,000 hand gloves to Nigerian Ports Authority’s (NPA) Tin Can Island Port to support the Authority’s effort at checking the spread of the virus at the nation’s seaport.
“Our terminal has remained fully operation as directed by the Federal Government with regards to the continuity of port operations. We also ensure the use of nose masks and hand gloves by all categories of workers, including contractors at our facility.
“We have intensified the use of assigned personal protective gears at all terminal work locations, while ensuring social distancing by of crowd reduction at all our customer service points and reduction in the number of biometric access cards per agency,” Russo said.
