Maritime Archives — Page 45 of 136

September 9, 2022 No Responses

NIS Seeks Partnership With NIMASA On Issuance Of Travel Documents To Seafarers

The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has appealed to the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) to partner with it on the issuance of travel documents to seafarers. The Comptroller General of Immigration, Mr Isah Jere, made the appeal during...

September 9, 2022 No Responses

Shipping Firm Seals LNG Carriers Deal With China’s ENN

Japanese shipping heavyweight, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines has signed a long-term charter contract for three new building LNG carriers with ENN LNG (Singapore) Pte., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chinese ENN Natural Gas. The vessels will be constructed at Hudong-Zhongh...

September 7, 2022 No Responses

Samsung, Daewoo, Secure $2.35 Order For Eleven LNG Carriers

The world’s largest shipbuilders are tapping into the surging demand for LNG carriers. South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) and Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co (DSME) has revealed a combined order for 11 LNG carriers worth approxima...

September 7, 2022 No Responses

NIMASA Unveils e-Platform To Register Dockworkers

The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) on Tuesday inaugurated an electronic platform for the registration and issuance of biometric identity cards to dockworkers. Director-General, Dr Bashir Jamoh said at the inauguration ceremon...

September 6, 2022 No Responses

APM Terminals Apapa Sets New Safety Record

APM Terminals Apapa has set a new safety record at the port with 400 days of no Lost Time Injury (LTI). No Lost Time Injury (LTI), a key indicator of the effectiveness of an organisation’s safety programme, means no injury...

September 5, 2022 No Responses

FG To Fix Port Infrastructure As Bello-Koko Assures of Bonny Deep Seaport Approval

The Minister of Transportation, Muazu Sambo has promised that the federal government will address issues of infrastructural decay affecting trade facilitation at Onne Seaport. Sambo who stated this during a tour of the Eastern ports with Onne as the first...

September 4, 2022 No Responses

NIWA Seeks Proper Funding, Infrastructure

Huge opportunities in the nation’s waterways can be maximised if there are infrastructure and proper funding, the Nigerian Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), has said A statement issued on Saturday quoted Managing Director, NIWA, Dr George Moghalu, as ...

September 2, 2022 No Responses

Tanker Refloated After Blocking Suez Canal

The Suez Canal was blocked for several hours after an oil tanker got stranded in the single-lane stretch of the canal — nearly the same spot where the Ever Given containership remained stuck for days in March 2021. On late...

September 1, 2022 No Responses

Sambo: Regional Maritime Bank Takes Off In 90 Days

Minister of Transportation, Mu’azu Sambo, has expressed optimism that within 90 days, the ministry will secure accommodation to enable the take-off of the Regional Maritime Development Bank(RMDB). Sambo said this in a statement issued by the ministry’s Dir...

August 29, 2022 No Responses

Shipbuilding Firm Unveils Smart Sail Design

Chinese shipbuilder, Jiangnan Shipbuilding has launched an in-house design of a smart sail, a wind-assisted propulsion system. Named the Jiangnan Smart Sail, the technology behind the system is based on a high-performance computing platform that evaluates...

August 26, 2022 No Responses

Côte d’Ivoire Terminal Receives Electric Cranes

Côte d’Ivoire Terminal (CIT), Abidjan’s second container terminal and APM Terminal’s joint venture facility, has received its final equipment before the terminal goes live in November 2022. Namely, the new zero-emissions terminal has just received ...

August 25, 2022 No Responses

NIMASA DG Tasks Industrial Council On Seafarers’ Welfare

Director General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr Bashir Jamoh, has called on the National Joint Industrial Council (NJIC) to improve the welfare of Nigerian seafarers. Jamoh made the call at the NJIC review of the Minimum...

August 25, 2022 No Responses

ANLCA Seeks Freight Forwarders’ Village At Lekki Deep Seaport, Explains Crisis

The Association of Nigeria Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) has appealed to the management of Lekki Deep Seaport to provide a Freight Forwarders’ Village for customs brokers as obtained in other modern automated ports in the world. The Acting National Preside...

August 24, 2022 No Responses

Nigeria Exports $2.6b Non-Oil Products In Six Months

Nigeria exported over 4. 146 million metric tonnes of non-oil products, worth $2.593 billion from January to June 2022, the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), disclosed on Tuesday. Presenting the first half year 2022 progress report to Journ...