The Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, has directed workers to shut all port operations from Tuesday, March 1, 2022 over refusal of the International Oil Companies, IOCs, to allow the stevedoring companies access to their platforms to commence operations, denying dockworkers and stevedoring companies access to operate in the IOCs platforms as required by […]

…Boats, equipment scrapped for sale By Godwin Oritse THE Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, has closed the Continental Shipyard Limited, CSL, its technical outfit in the ship repair operations. Vanguard Maritime Report  gathered that the entire work-force has been laid off and paid off while only four workers were left behind to reconcile all taxes and […]

By Godwin Oritse    THE Nigerian fishery community alongside other African countries whose maritime domain have been invaded by European and Chinese fishing trawlers, have concluded plans to petition the United Nations over the incessant invasion of waters and endangering of its aquatic lives by those invasions. Speaking to  Vanguard Maritime Report,  Mrs Margareth Orakwusi, […]

The Shippers Association of Lagos, SAL, has said that apart from oil and gas, the maritime sector is critical for the economic growth of the country. The President of the association, Jonathan Nicole, who made this known in an interview, yesterday, in Lagos, contended that for government to reap benefits from the sector, it should […]

By Eguono Odjegba THE National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Apapa Port Special Area Command, has replicated the launch of the Agency’s War Against Drug Abuse, WADA, to recreate awareness and send warnings to recalcitrant drug barons and their foot soldiers. The Command Assistant Comptroller General, Narcotics, Samuel Gadzama Bashir, who carried out the launch during the […]

By Godfrey Bivbere AN expert in the maritime industry has decried the interference of officials of the Standards Organisation of Nigeria, SON, and the National Agency for Foods and Drugs Administration and Control, NAFDAC, in the export of goods from the country. Export consultant and Chief Executive Officer of Multimix Academy, Madu Obiora, lamented that the Federal […]

By Godwin Oritse THE Federal Government has opened fresh talks with leading businessmen and women in Greece on Direct Foreign Investment (DFI) in the transport and allied sectors of the economy. Nigeria’s Minister of Transportation, Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, stated this while on a visit with a team of chief executives of parastatals under his Ministry […]

By Godwin Oritse AS Nigeria continues to record low level of pirate activities on the Gulf of Guinea, GoG, the criminal activates of the sea robbers is said to cost the country over N329billion in 2017 compared to N1.8billion cost to Asia. Disclosing this at the ongoing Chartered Institute of Transport Administration of Nigeria, CIOTA, conference in […]

By Godfrey Bivbere IMPORT and export traders groups have indicated that the activities of terminal operators and shipping companies are now threatening safety of their consignments and the insurance covers. Speaking at a meeting called by the minister of transportation through the Council of the Regulations of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria, CRFFN, in Lagos to address […]

•Why we must retain units in cargo clearing process — Customs By Godfrey Bivbere CONTROVERSY is currently trailing the number of units maintained by officials of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, at the seaports with stakeholders putting the number at about 27 while Customs said that it has only seven or eight very essential units. This is […]

By Godwin Oritse FOLLOWING the recent increase in the exchange rate for the payment of import duty by the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, importers have claimed that the development has brought about a distortion in their business plans. The increase, according to some of them  that spoke to Vanguard Maritime Report, has not only distorted their […]

By Godfrey Bivbere There are indications that works on the proposed Inland Dry Port, IDP, in Ibadan, Oyo State, would begin soon as most of the outstanding issues in the Full Business Case, FBC, and the Concessionaire Agreement are said to have been resolved. The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council, NSC, Emmanuel Jime, […]

The 2nd National Deputy President of Nigerian Association of Chambers Of Commerce Industry Mines and Agriculture NACCIMA, Engineer Jani Ibrahim, who is also a technical adviser at Lubcon Nigeria Limited, has once again demonstrated his kindness and desire to assist small business owners by sponsoring 50 entrepreneurs to the forthcoming 8th Kwara Trade Fair holding […]

.. Traffic gridlock resurges …We have paid N3bn to extortions this year – Truckers By Godfrey Bivbere & Providence Adeyinka THERE are indications that the recent accord between truck owners and the various authorities managing traffic at the Mile-2 to Apapa road corridor has collapsed leading to a resurgence of gridlock on the nation’s premium […]

By Godfrey Bivbere The Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, and some stakeholders are in disagreement over the directive by the former that shipping companies provide holding bays for their empty containers. While the NPA insisted that most shipping companies have holding bays, stakeholders say they do not have enough holding bays adding that as a result, trucks […]