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.
Economy bleeds under Temporary Import Permits to foreign ship owners
Nigerian economy may be losing millions of dollars annually through Temporary Importation Permit, TIP, granted to foreign ship owners by the Ministry of Finance and the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS.
Nigeria loses $300m annually to offshore vessel berthing – Omatseye
Former Director General of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Temisan Omatseye, has said that Nigeria is losing about 300 million dollars yearly for berthing Five Degrees East on Nigerian waters.
Attracting FDI through NIMASA reform programme
With construction of three deep sea ports in the country, Nigeria is opening up its waters for trade with the rest of the world. These ports, located in Lagos and Akwa Ibom states, are the efforts of a public private partnership aimed at increasing revenue generation, creating employment and increasing tonnage for the Nigerian Ship Registry.
CRFFN elects 15 new governing council members
The Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) has elected its 15 new governing council members over the weekend after six years of expiration of the tenure of the previous council in 2012.
Re-construction of roads not lasting solution to Apapa traffic – Hakeem Olanrewaju
Immediate past chairman of the Council of Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria, CRFFN and Managing Director of Talod Oceanair Freight Limited, Alhaji Hakeem Olanrewaju, in this interview with Maritime Reporter, Godfrey Bivbere, speaks on several issues ranging from permanent solution to the perennial traffic situation around the Apapa ports, CRFFN, domination of Customs brokers’ job by foreigners and many more. Excerpt:
