UK ports are starting to see significant gaps in their schedules as the large container vessels that usually ferry goods from China and the rest of Asia fail to arrive. According to one industry source, the industry is seeing 20-25 so-called “blanks” over a two week period.

Following the recent re-positioning of the company for optimum growth in the years ahead, Jumia Nigeria has said it is opening up its logistics and marketing services to third parties and partners because it has the technology and data-driven approach to solving logistics challenges on the continent. The company’s Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice […]

THE inability of member countries to contribute their subscription dues to the Gulf of Guinea Commission, GOGC, has stalled activities and strategies to tackle the menace of sea piracy in the region.

MEMBERS of the House Committee on Maritime Safety, Education and Administration, have expressed worry over the continued idleness of the agency’s floating dockyard at the Naval Dockyard in Lagos.

FOLLOWINGVanguard Maritime Report’s story in our last edition entitled “Smuggling, insecurity rise at private jetties” the Nigerian Navy has commenced moved to ensure security at these facilities. Vanguard Maritime Report was reliably informed that already the Western Navy Command, WNC, has contacted the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA and the National Inland Waterways Authority, NIWA to provide it with the list and owners of each of the private jetties licensed by both agencies.