ONE thousand two  hundred and twenty-six candidates of the Nigerian Navy Basic Training School, NNBTS batch 29, have completed a nine-month rigorous military and practical training, as part of the Nigerian Navy’s efforts to safeguard the nation’s maritime environment for sustainable defence and national prosperity.

The first nationwide maritime quiz for secondary school students in the 774 local government areas of Nigeria will begin on Monday, September 14, 2020.

MANAGING Director/Chief Executive Officer, GOG Marine Limited, Bem Ibrahim Garba, has blamed the country’s inability to maximise its maritime potentials to the fullest, on negligence on the part of the government.

CYBER-attacks on the maritime industry’s operational technology (OT) systems have increased by 900% over the last three years with the number of reported incidents set to reach record volumes by year end.

…Deploys four ships, two tug boats, helicopters By Evelyn Usman The Western Naval Command of the Nigerian Navy has flagged off Exercise Okun Alafia II, a Yoruba word for Calm Water, to address insecurity in the maritime environment within its Area of Responsibility, spanning from Lagos up to 200 nautical miles of the nation’s Exclusive […]

FOLLOWING the Marine Notice published by the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, for stevedoring firms to return to location and commence operations, the leadership of the National Association of Stevedoring Companies has said that International Oil Companies, IOCs, will continue to disobey the nation’s laws in this regard.

AFTER many years of failed promises to provide Nigerian dockworkers with biometric identification card for easy and secured movement and data verification, the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, may have commenced implementation of the program.

STAKEHOLDERS are divided over the recent meeting of government agencies in the maritime industry to synergise their operations for the optimisation of opportunities in the sector, even as they called for the expansion of the meeting to include critical private sector operators if the objective will be achieved.

SAMSUNG  Heavy Industries, SHI, is developing innovative methods to facilitate smart shipping by undertaking thorough research across their multiple research centres in Geoje, Daeduk and Pangyo in Korea with a view to transferring wealth of technological knowhow from Korea to Nigeria and cultivating smart shipping in Nigeria as well.

A NEW maritime industry architecture appears to be underway as regulatory authorities begin to draw up inter-agency strategy to address key development issues in the sector.