The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS weekend said it has collected a total of N1.2 trillion as at December 2018, even as it disclosed that contraband consignments with Duty Paid Value, DPV, of N61.5 billion were also seized during the period under review.

THE Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics Base (LADOL), officially known as LADOL Free Zone Logistics Company, has been awarded the International Standard Organization, ISO numbers.

THE Association Maritime Truck Owners, AMATO, has said that no amount of regulation will solve the current traffic gridlock around Apapa and it’s environs, the group’s President Chief Remi Ogungbemi, has said.

The Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority, Ms Hadiza Bala Usman has called on port users to take advantage of incentives introduced to ease the financial burden following the congestion resulting from the traffic gridlock in the port city of Apapa.

The National Public Relations Officer of Nigeria Customs Services, NCS, Joseph Attah has debunked news trending in the social media that one of the recently seized 40 containers by Customs along Apapa road contains United States dollars.

As 2018 maritime year comes to an end, sector stakeholders and operators have indicated that regulatory and operational environment worsened during the year gone by.

The Maritime Safety Committee is the International Maritime Organization’s senior technical body on safety-related matters. Member States meet twice a year to discuss safety of life at sea. International Maritime Organization

Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and Russia agreed to cut oil production by 1.2 million barrels a day during their 5th meeting held on December 7 in Vienna.

A frontline maritime stakeholder, Prince Olayiwola Shittu, has warned the federal government against laying too much emphasis on establishment of Deep Seaports across the nation, saying that its proliferation has the potential to impede capacity growth of the nation’s export.

World’s largest shipping company Maersk is reportedly targeting acquisitions on land to bolster its logistics operations as part of the group’s transformation from a conglomerate to an integrated global container logistics company.

The Importers Association of Nigeria, IAN, has commenced the collection of levy on imported items from its members, nationwide.

The Nigeria Customs Service, CG Strike Force, last week, apparently spoilt the Christmas and New Year celebration for smugglers, following a comprehensive raid of Oniko, a village in Moro Local Government Area of Kwara State, believed to be a major hideout for smuggled items, confiscating a total of 8,413 bags of 50kg smuggled rice.

Josepdam Port Services Nigeria Limited, operators of ‘terminal A’ at the Tin-can Island port, is currently turning back ships seeking to berth at the multi-purpose terminal, its Managing Director, Simon Travers, has said.

The Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, has said it will no longer accept the middle man role of stevedoring firms in the negotiation and payments of welfare packages for dockworkers, even as it slammed stevedores for short-changing dockworker

The Chairman, Seaport Terminal Operators Association of Nigeria (STOAN), Princess Vicky Haastrup, has lamented how bad roads and the menacing Apapa gridlock, which she described as a monumental national disgrace, is frustrating operations at the nation’s seaports.