MARITIME Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, has sent food items and other materials to the 18-man foreign crew onboard MT ORYX TRADER vessel stranded for over three months at the Lagos Anchorage. The crew onboard is made up foreign nationals, with a Pakistani as its captain and an Ukrainian as chief officer.

THE seizure of a large quantity of Cannabis Sativa, otherwise locally known as Indian Hemp by operatives of the Western Marine Command, WMC, of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, may have been enmeshed in controversy following the escape of the smugglers, believed to have negotiated their escape at with some NCS officials.

ONE week after a supply vessel,‘M/T DEVISA’ ran into the rocky moles of the Escravos channel, the vessel is still stuck waiting to be rescued.

AT the backdrop of the on-going curfew imposed by the government to curtail spread of coronavirus, the Federal Government, through the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, has designated Nigerian seafarers and dockworkers as essential duty workers for the purposes of unrestricted passage to and from the seaports or jetties.

THE Senior Staff Association of Statutory Corporations and Government Owned Companies, SSASCGOC, Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA branch has empowered its members and other staff with Personal Protective Equipment, PPEs, worth N9.5 million as part of measures to curb the spread of coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic in the port industry.