NPA moves to dredge Escravos channel as more vessels run aground
By Godwin Oritse FOLLOWING the shallow depth of the Escravos channel, a development that has reduced the number of vessels calling at the Warri port, the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, has commenced moves to dredge the channel for increased port activities. Speaking to Vanguard Maritime Report, Managing Director of the Escravos Ship Pilots Nigeria Limited, […]
Crisis brew in global west vessel over ownership
CRISIS is brewing at the Global West Specialist vessels as the family of the late Captain Romeo Itima has dragged the Managing Director Mr Winfred Itima, to court over the ownership of the company
Court orders Navy to pay N200m over illegal detention of vessel
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the Nigerian Navy and the Chief of Naval Staff, jointly and severally, to pay an oil company, Mercury Oil Limited, the sum of N200 million as damages for illegally detaining its vessel M T SAPPHIRE 1 and siphoning 280,000 litres of Automated Gas Oil contained in the said vessel.
Army arrests oil vessel, 14 crew members
*Alleges N14m bribe offer
The 3 Battallion Army, Effurun, near Warri, Delta State has arrested an oil vessel together with its 14 crew members at Bennet Island along the Warri waterways.
