Category: Maritime

COVID-19: Seaport Defers Rent For Customers
April 25, 2020 No Responses

COVID-19: Seaport Defers Rent For Customers

Abu Dhabi Ports is offering a three-month rent deferment for the second quarter of the year for its customers as part of the relief measures aimed at curbing the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on their operations. The package also...
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Board: 2,000 Seafarers Under NSDP Awaiting Sea Time
April 23, 2020 No Responses

Board: 2,000 Seafarers Under NSDP Awaiting Sea Time

The National Seafarers Welfare Board (Nigeria) says two thousand seafarers, under the National Seafarers Development Programme (NSDP), are still waiting for sea time.The board Chairman, Mr Kunle Folarin, made this known on Thursday on an Instagram Live program...
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Welfare Board Holds First Virtual Meeting With Nigerian Seafarers
April 23, 2020 No Responses

Welfare Board Holds First Virtual Meeting With Nigerian Seafarers

The National Seafarers Welfare Board (NSWB) would today, April 23, 2020 at 11am address the challenges and fears of Nigerian seafarers offshore and ashore in the face of the COVID -19 pandemic, to provide them the necessary support for the...
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Shippers Council Implores Haulage Operators On Reduced Freight Rates At Seaports
April 22, 2020 No Responses

Shippers Council Implores Haulage Operators On Reduced Freight Rates At Seaports

Nigerian Shippers Council (NSC) has urged haulage operators to reduce the freight rates to decongest the nation’s seaports amid COVID-19 pandemic. The Executive Secretary, Mr Hassan Bello made the appeal at a meeting with truck owners under the aegis of...
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Free Trade Zones: NEPZA Insists On 60 Per Cent Jobs For Host Communities
April 22, 2020 No Responses

Free Trade Zones: NEPZA Insists On 60 Per Cent Jobs For Host Communities

The Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA) is to ensure that its policy on allocation of 60 per cent of jobs in Free Trade Zones to host communities is fully implemented. Acting Managing Director of NEPZA, Mr Bitrus Dawuk, gave...
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Pirates Kidnap Eight Container Crew Members In Cotonou
April 21, 2020 No Responses

Pirates Kidnap Eight Container Crew Members In Cotonou

Eight crew members of the Portuguese-flagged containership, Tommi Ritscher are believed to have been taken by a group of pirates that boarded the ship on April 19, 2020 while the vessel was within the Cotonou anchorage area, West Africa. The...
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Maritime Security: NAVY, NIMASA To Improve Information Sharing
April 20, 2020 No Responses

Maritime Security: NAVY, NIMASA To Improve Information Sharing

The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) and the Nigeria Navy are set for a regime of improved information sharing as arrangements to integrate the Command, Control, Computer Communication and Information Centre, otherwise known as the C...
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Seaport Welcomes Largest Boxship
April 19, 2020 No Responses

Seaport Welcomes Largest Boxship

The 19,200 TEU MSC Anna, owned by Mediterranean Shipping Company, has docked at the port’s Oakland International Container Terminal on the Oakland Estuary, claiming the title of the largest ship ever to call in Oakland. The massive ship can carry...
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Shippers’ Council Suspends Demurrage Charges
April 17, 2020 No Responses

Shippers’ Council Suspends Demurrage Charges

The Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) on Friday directed shipping companies to suspend demurrage charges during the period of COVID-19 lockdown. In a statement issued on Friday, the management of NSE explained that the suspension applies to cargo that is disc...
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Terminals To Boost Performance With Data Sharing App
April 17, 2020 No Responses

Terminals To Boost Performance With Data Sharing App

Turkish port operator Yilport Holdings has implemented Navis Smart Compass, a visual workflow management application, at five terminals, following a pilot program in May of last year. The application, developed by Cargotec’s Navis brand, is used to digitize ...
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NIMASA Extends Certificate Validity For Seafarers
April 16, 2020 No Responses

NIMASA Extends Certificate Validity For Seafarers

The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has extended the validity of Statutory and Trading certificates for all Nigerian Registered vessels.  These include Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping (STCW) certificates f...
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Onne Customs Collects ₦22.9B Revenue In Q1
April 16, 2020 No Responses

Onne Customs Collects ₦22.9B Revenue In Q1

For the 2020 First Quarter, the Nigeria Customs Service, Area II Command Onne Port, recorded total revenue collection of ₦22,950,780,163.43K, with seizures of seven containers worth total Duty Paid Value (DPV) of ₦215,387,201.18 On export, the Command reco...
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Report: 37 Ships Boarded, 22 Seafarers Kidnapped In Q1, 2020
April 15, 2020 No Responses

Report: 37 Ships Boarded, 22 Seafarers Kidnapped In Q1, 2020

Pirates boarded 37 ships and kidnapped 22 seafarers in the first quarter of 2020, the latest report from the ICC International Maritime Bureau (IBM) shows. In total, the bureau received reports of 47 attacks in the first three months of...
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COVID-19: Terminal Operators Donates N300m
April 15, 2020 No Responses

COVID-19: Terminal Operators Donates N300m

Two Port Terminal Operators, APM Terminals Apapa and West Africa Container Terminal (WACT) Onne,  have jointly committed more than N300 million to helping to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease in Nigeria. Mr Martin Jacob, the Managing Director ...
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