Section 13: Duties of the Authority.

(1) It shall be the duty of the Authority-
(a) to provide and operate in the ports specified in Part I of the First Schedule, such port facilities as appear to them best calculated to serve the public interest;
(b) to maintain, improve and regulate the use of the ports specified in Parts I and II of the First Schedule to this Act and the port facilities transferred to the Authority under this Act, to such extent as appear to them expedient in the public interest;
(c) to provide for the ports specifed in Parts I and II of the First Schedule to this Act, the approaches to such ports, and the territorial waters of Nigeria, such pilotage services and such lights, marks, and other navigational services and aids as appear to them best
calculated to serve the public interest;
(d) subject to the provisions of section 14 of this Act, to provide and operate such other services as the President may require.
(2) The policy of the Authority shall be directed to secure that-
(a) the annual revenues of the Authority are, taking one financial year with another, sufficient to meet all charges properly chargeable to revenue;
(b) no particular person is given any undue preferences or subjected to any undue disadvantages.
(3) In this section-
"charges properly chargeable to revenue" means charges
chargeable to revenue in accordance with the provisions
of section 30 of this Act;
"navigational services" includes the cleaning and improving
of any waterway;
"port facilities" means facilities for berthing, towing,mooring, moving or drydocking of ships in entering or leaving a port or its approaches, for the loading and unloading of goods or embarking or disembarking of passengers in or from any such ship, for the lighterage or the sorting,weighing, warehousing or handling of goods, and for the carriage of passengers or goods in connection with any such facilities.