NIWA moves to improve waterways security
IN bid to attract private investments to enhance the nation's Blue Economy initiative, the management of the National Inland Waterways Authority, NIWA, has commenced moves to improve security on waterways across the country.
Kaduna, Kano ICDs lobby landlocked countries for cargo
The Inland Container Depots, ICDs in Kaduna and Kano are presently lobbying neighbouring countries in the West African sub-region to use their facilities for land-lock cargo (cargo meant for a neighbouring country without a port).
3,000 shipwrecks litter Nigeria’s coastline
An environmentalist, Prince David Omaghomi, has said that Nigeria currently has over 3,000 shipwrecks littering its coastline, a development that will continue to endanger smooth navigation in and out of the nation’s ports.
NIMASA laments increase in hepatitis virus amongst seafarers
THE Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA has expressed concern over the rise in the number of seafarers suffering from Hepatitis B virus.
12 years after, BPE commences review of port concession agreements
TWELVE years after the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, concessioned its operations to private terminal operators, the Bureau of Public Enterprise, BPE, has commenced moves to review the ports concession agreements signed by the Nigerian government and private terminal operators in 2006.
How smuggling contributes to unemployment — CAC, Zone A FOU
Customs Area Controller of the Federal Operations Unit, FOU Zone “A”, Garba Uba Mohammed, spoke with Vanguard Maritime Report’s Godfrey Bivbere & Ebuka Oko, on effect of smuggling, why border communities support the act, the contribution of neighbouring countries, Customs efforts and the way forward.
