MWUN, PTML set to strengthen partnership to boost cargo operations

The President-General of Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) Comrade Francis Bunu Abi has commended Ports & Terminals Multipurpose Limited (PTML) over its good working relationship with the Union.

The MWUN President General stressed that the Union’s door is always open for fresh ideas of development, progression and of mutual benefits for both bodies towards the development of the sector.

Comrade Francis Bunu Abi gave the commendation when he and the Shipping Branch Executives of the Union paid a familiarization visit to PTML management in Lagos on Wednesday,  November 12, 2025.

Comrade Bunu Abi said the purpose of the visit to PTML was to familiarize himself and his executives to the management of the multinational company, to  abreast the newly elected officials of the Union with their various designated positions to the management.

While receiving the visitors, the Deputy Managing Director of PTML, Mr. Nitin Senan, who represented the Managing Director, Mr. Ascanio Ruso, thanked Comrade Francis Bunu Abi for the timely visit and promised that his management would continue to partner MWUN at all times, given its longstanding ingenuine synergy with the Union in the nation’s maritime space.

He pointed out that he has had a very robust relationship with everybody and particularly with the President General of MWUN; having known the current PG of the Union, Comrade Bunu, for twenty years running when he stepped into the soil of Nigeria.

He congratulated Comrade Tajudeen Abass, the current President of Shipping Branch and other executives of the Union for their landslide victory over the Union’s elections held in Lagos recently.

While speaking, Comrade Tajudeen Abass made  some pertinent demands from the PTML management, which include majorly the Decasualization of the Union members, saying “the decasualization method can take a systemic approach monthly towards a progressive finishing.”

He also talked about the training of the workers on e-system, but most importantly through practicals on lifting, carrying and moving of items and equipment within the terminals and also to recognizing hazardous items and its effects on  workers.