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Permanent Secretary commends Shippers Council’s trade promotion initiatives
The newly-appointed Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Transportation, Dr. Magdalene Ajani has commended the Nigerian Shippers Council for its promotion of the establishment of Vehicle Transit...
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Photos: SIFAX Container Terminal opens in Ijora Causeway, Lagos
L-R: Adekunle Oyinloye, Group Managing Director, SIFAX Group; Deacon Wale Afolabi, Managing Director, Instarmac Nigeria; Onari Brown, Executive Director, Marine and Operations, Nigerian Ports Authority...
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Nigeria, 15 other nations begin joint military operation in Gulf of Guinea
The Nigerian Navy on Wednesday deployed six warships and 65 gunboats in a joint multinational maritime exercise comprising 16 foreign Navies from Europe, America and Africa. The participating countries...
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SIFAX Group opens container terminal to combat port access problem
SIFAX Group, a conglomerate with investments in Maritime, Aviation, Logistics, Oil & Gas, Hospitality and Financial Services sectors, has opened a new container terminal in Lagos as a response to...
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Okhiria reappointed MD of NRC
The Federal Governent has renewed the appointment of Mr. Freeborn Okhiria as Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation for another four-year term. In a statement on Wednesday, the Director,...
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Full Text of President Buhari’s 2021 budget speech
Delivered by His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari President, Federal Republic of Nigeria At the Joint Session of the National Assembly, Abuja Thursday, 8th October 2020 PROTOCOLS It is with...
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CRFFN integrates terminal operators to enhance POF enforcement
The Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) has integrated Practitioners Operating Fee (POF) with eight terminal operators in the Western Ports. Mr. Sam Nwakohu,...
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Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea sign agreement on Gulf of Guinea security
In a bid to consolidate efforts at ending the upsurge of maritime crimes, piracy and insecurity in the Gulf of Guinea, Nigeria has activated a bilateral agreement on improving the security in the...
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WTO launches new import licensing platform
Four years of work by the WTO Secretariat bore fruit with the launch on 9 October 2020 of the new import licensing database. The new platform gathers together import licensing information, analysis and...
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Customs in Onne Port generates over N13 bn in September
The Nigeria Customs Service, Area ll Command, Onne Port, Rivers, has declared a revenue of N13.11 billion generated in September. This is contained in a statement issued in Port Harcourt by the...
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Nigeria’s JWG furthers collaborative efforts for maritime domain security
The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency(NIMASA) has disclosed in a report that a Joint Working Group (JWG) comprising the Agency(NIMASA), the Ministry of Transport, Nigerian Navy,...
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MWUN orders removal of all container-laden trucks from port access roads in...
The Maritime Workers Uniion of Nigeria (MWUN) has issued a 21 days notice to some shipping companies including MAERSK LINE, PIL, MSC and MOL to move their container-laden trucks away from the port...
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Maritime security, trade: South Korea, Belgium pledge more support for...
South Korea and Belgium have pledged more support for the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) in its drive to enhance trade and security in the Nigerian maritime domain. The new...
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Maritime Academy of Nigeria resumes academic activities Oct. 28
Academic activities will resume at the Maritime Academy of Nigeria, Oron, Akwa Ibom on October 28, 2020. Rector of the Academy, Commodore Duja Effedua (Rtd), in a statement, disclosed that the...
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“New protocols on ships will impact global economy”
As economies across the world begin to open operations and other activities as the lockdown occasioned by COVID-19 eases, the challenges of settling for a new structure on how seafarers would begin to...
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Photos: Sifax Group celebrates Customer Service Week
Oliver Omajuwa, General Manager, SIFAX Off Dock, Trinity, Lagos alongside agencies and customers during a meeting as part of activities marking the 2020 Customer Service Week celebration held at the...
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MWUN mourns death of colleague
The Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) has expressed its condolences to the Nigerian Labour Congress on the death of the congress treasurer, Comrade Ibhrahim Khaleel, who passed away on 8th...
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NIMASA DG appointed chairman CELTRAS, UNIPORT
The University of Port Harcourt has announced the appointment of the Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Bashir Jamoh, as Chairman of the Governing...
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IMO talks importance of digitalization of shipping in the COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of electronic data exchange and the vital need for digitalization and automation, to ensure supply chains continue to function safely and...
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CBN to sanction shipping coys carrying export goods without NXP number as...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has warned that shipping companies flouting the Federal Government’s directive that all export goods leaving the country should carry Nigerian Export Proceeds (NXP)...
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