Maritime Archives — Page 124 of 141

March 17, 2017 No Responses

NIMASA, UK School target sea time for 400 Nigerians

The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) in partnership with the South Shield Marine School at the South Tyneside College, South Shield, Newcastle in the United Kingdom, is to provide sea time opportunities for about 400 cadets of NIMASA’s...

March 17, 2017 No Responses

NSE Photo News

L – R: Tinuade Awe, General Counsel & Head, Regulation, The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE); Olumide Orojimi, Head, Corporate Communications Department, NSE; Boluwatiwi Omidiji, CSR Analysts, NSE; Godstime Iwenekhai, Acting Head, Listings Regulation, NSE; ...

March 12, 2017 No Responses

130 Nigerian Cadets graduates in Egypt, gets seatime training offer

The Nigerian Seafarers Development Programme (NSDP), an initiative of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), has once again graduated 130 cadets from the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport in Alexandria, Egypt...

March 9, 2017 No Responses

Forum hings Seaports’ growth on adequate infrastructure, single window, others

For Seaports in Nigeria to attain sustainable growth and development, there is the urgent need for the Federal Government to implement existing laws, provide adequate infrastructure and streamline cargo clearance operations and procedure. Speaking in Lagos on ...

March 7, 2017 No Responses

Intels debunks alleged sponsorship of OGFZA Act amendment, CEO’s removal

Intels Nigeria Limited has described allegations that it was sponsoring the proposed Bill to amend the Oil and Gas Free Zones Authority (OGFZA) Act as “ridiculous, preposterous and laughable”. Media Consultant to Intels Nigeria Limited, Mr. Bolaji Akinola ...

March 6, 2017 No Responses

LCCI, MAN, Maritime business leaders to grace Town Hall on cargo charges

The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) and business leaders in the maritime industry have all geared up for a one-day town hall meeting on cargo and port handling charges. The town hall which...

March 2, 2017 No Responses

Economic diversification: NIMASA seeks support of traditional rulers

The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside has solicited support of traditional rulers around the maritime domain of the country to assist the economic diversification drive of the President Mu...

February 28, 2017 No Responses

COSCO posts $695m loss in 2016, records 22.6 % drop in shipping, others

(WMN) COSCO Corporation (Singapore) Limited, a shipbuilding, marine engineering and dry bulk shipping group, saw a net loss of SGD 976.1 million (USD 695.5 million) in 2016, against a net loss of SGD 914.8 million (USD 651.8 million) recorded in 2015,...

February 28, 2017 No Responses

NIMASA targets strategic growth with 2017 Budget

The 2017 budget of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) is tailored towards strategic growth and other developmental initiatives of the maritime sector, Director General, Dr. Dakuku Peterside has said. The DG who stated this during the 2...

February 27, 2017 No Responses

Nigeria to host 32 countries on future of maritime in Africa

Come April 19th-21, 2017, Nigeria would be hosting the 3rd Conference of the Association of Heads of African Maritime Administrations (AAMA Conference) in Abuja, at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel. The meeting which will be hosted by the Nigerian Maritime Administr...

February 24, 2017 No Responses

Communities, 44 varsities to benefit from N20b green bond

Not less than 44 Nigerian universities and several communities are to benefit from the proposed N20billion sovereign green bond scheduled to commence next month. Speaking at the investors’ conference for the green bond at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on...

February 24, 2017 No Responses

NIMASA team at Customs HQ, canvasses synergy, revenue, trade facilitation

The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside, has stated that NIMASA and the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) are partners in progress in bringing the desired growth and development to the Nigerian...

February 23, 2017 No Responses

Strategic role of professionalism in maritime’s development, by NIMASA DG

The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Dr. Dakuku Peterside has stated that professionalism has a key role to play in the development and growth of the maritime industry in Nigeria. Dr. Peterside who made...

February 22, 2017 No Responses

China sanctions CMA CGM, Evergreen, others for not reporting freight tariffs

(WMN) China’s Ministry of Transport has fined 14 international container shipping companies because they either failed to report freight tariffs to the ministry or were inconsistent with the reported ones. Companies have been punished with a total of RMB 2....