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.

MARITIME anti   corruption group,  Maritime Anti-Corruption Network, MACN, has received the support of the Siemens Integrity Initiative, to scale up its collective action in the fight against the vice in the country.

IN a bid to maintain peace in the African continent, Nigeria lost most of its maritime security platforms to prosecute the 14-year old war in Liberia.

A global business network, termed Maritime Anti-Corruption Network MACN, comprising of over 130 companies, have come together to tackle corruption in the maritime industry in its Collective Action initiative in Nigeria. The initiative, also has the support of the Siemens Integrity Initiative.

FORMER Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Arch Ferdinand Agu, has said that until a well structured maritime policy leading to a more robust shipping policy is put in place the Nigerian maritime industry will remain stagnant.

MARITIME Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, has sent food items and other materials to the 18-man foreign crew onboard MT ORYX TRADER vessel stranded for over three months at the Lagos Anchorage. The crew onboard is made up foreign nationals, with a Pakistani as its captain and an Ukrainian as chief officer.

By Victor Young Labour (Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN,) has suspended its planned nationwide strike, following the release of some dockworkers arrested on Saturday by Rivers State Task Force on COVID-19. Recall that MWUN had given the Rivers State government a 48-hour ultimatum to release about 20 dockworkers arrested on their way from essential […]

THE Nigerian Association of Stevedoring Companies, NASC, has confirmed the receipt of agreements by ten stevedoring companies from the International Oil Companies, IOCs, on new stevedoring operational procedures on platforms operated by the IOCs.

REPORTS from global port and marine operations, indicate that global maritime freight transportation revenue is expected to grow from $166 billion last year to over $205 billion in 2023. Also spending in transportation and logistics on the Internet-of-Things, IoT, and smart systems is projected to rise tomore than $130 billion in 2020.

Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) and the Nigeria Navy have made arrangements to improve information sharing through their respective security platforms to enhance maritime security in the country.

AFTER over a decade of remaining in limbo, operators of the maritime industry have urged the Board of Trustees of the Cargo Defence Fund, CDF, to re-jig the fund’s secretariat to allow stakeholders direct their complaints and apply for intervention fund to deal with myriads of issues for which the CDF was set up.
The Fund was established as limited guarantee company to mitigate losses incurred by shippers, especially small time importers and exporters, who may not have the financial muscle to pursue their legitimate maritime claims.