SIFAX Group Consolidates Operation With 25 New Trucks, Four Harbour Cranes, Others

SIFAX Group Consolidates Operation With 25 New Trucks, Four Harbour Cranes, Others

By Moses Ebosele, ebosele@hotmail. com To sustain faster turnaround of its operations, Sifax Group has placed order for 24 new trucks, four mobile harbor cranes and other strategic equipments.Already, a subsidiary of the Group, Skyway Aviation Handling Company Plc, (SAHCO)...
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Regional Integration Tops Agenda As Nigeria Host Global Maritime Security Conference

Regional Integration Tops Agenda As Nigeria Host Global Maritime Security Conference

By Moses Ebosele, ebosele@hotmail.com — The 2019 Global Maritime Security Conference (GMSC) is to hold  October 7th—9th, at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, Nigeria.  Put together by Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety ...
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Regional Integration Tops Agenda As Nigeria Host Global Maritime Security Conference

Regional Integration Tops Agenda As Nigeria Host Global Maritime Security Conference

By Moses Ebosele, ebosele@hotmail.com The 2019 Global Maritime Security Conference (GMSC) is to hold  October 7th—9th, at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, Nigeria.Hosted by Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA),...
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Nigerian Shippers’ Council Hosts Sub-Regional Summit

Nigerian Shippers’ Council Hosts Sub-Regional Summit

The Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) under the auspices of the Union of African Shippers’ Council (UASC) will be hosting a Sub-Regional Summit on ‘’ High Shipping Surcharges and Charges’’, Sub-Regional Workshop on Status of Convention on Facilitati...
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APM Terminals To Expand Terminal

APM Terminals To Expand Terminal

APM Terminals Yucatán, operator of the Port of Progreso in Mexico has  unveiled an investment to expand and modernize the port’s container terminal. The terminal has doubled its volumes from 80,000 to 140,000 TEUs throughput over the last two years....
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Total, Benin Seal LNG Import Floating Terminal Deal

Total, Benin Seal LNG Import Floating Terminal Deal

French oil and gas company Total, the Republic of Benin and the Société Béninoise d’Energie Electrique (SBEE) have signed a gas supply agreement and a host government agreement for the development of an LNG import floating terminal in Benin. The...
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Gbajabiamila: Nigeria Looks to Marine Resources for Economic Recovery

Gbajabiamila: Nigeria Looks to Marine Resources for Economic Recovery

Nigeria’s rich maritime resources represent a vital economic safeguard and vehicle for the successful implementation of the President Muhammadu Buhari government’s Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP), which must be sustainably tapped, Speaker of the H...
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Iran Seizes British Tanker

Iran Seizes British Tanker

(BBC)–There will be “serious consequences” if Iran does not release a British-flagged tanker seized in the Gulf, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said. The Stena Impero’s owners say they have been unable to contact their vessel, which ...
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Firms Unveil Cement Carrier Alliance

Firms Unveil Cement Carrier Alliance

Germany-based Baltrader and US-based United Bulk Carriers (UBC) have entered into a cooperation agreement to jointly market their respective fleets of pneumatic cement carriers. The two companies will work together under the newly launched Cement Carrier Allia...
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Singapore Maintains Position As World’s Top Shipping Location

Singapore Maintains Position As World’s Top Shipping Location

Singapore has topped the 2019 Xinhua-Baltic International Shipping Centre Development (ISCD) Index for the sixth year running, the Baltic Exchange said. The index provides an independent ranking of the performance of the world’s largest cities that offer por...
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Nigeria Explains Dispute With Switzerland Over Detained Ship

Nigeria Explains Dispute With Switzerland Over Detained Ship

The Federal Government says it has successfully defended its rights in the dispute between the country and Switzerland in an International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS).  Adetayo Apata, the Solicitor General of the Federation (SGF) and Permanent...
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Shipping Firm Attains First Simultaneous Bunkering Operations

Shipping Firm Attains First Simultaneous Bunkering Operations

Containerships, a subsidiary of the CMA CGM Group, has performed its first simultaneous operations (SIMOPS) bunkering. The operations allows for the concomitant bunkering of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and execution of loading and unloading procedures. The SIM...
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Firm Expands Partnership With Maersk, MSC

Firm Expands Partnership With Maersk, MSC

Israeli shipping company Zim Integrated Shipping Services (ZIM) has further expanded its strategic cooperation with the members of the 2M Alliance – Maersk and Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC). Specifically, ZIM has now decided to boost ties with 2M on t...
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Buhari Assent To Anti-Piracy Bill

Buhari Assent To Anti-Piracy Bill

President Muhammadu Buhari has given his assent to the Suppression of Piracy and other Maritime Offences Bill, 2019, in an unprecedented move billed to bring a dramatic improvement in security on the country’s territorial waters and exclusive economic zone. ...
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