Ports – City Business News

October 8, 2025 No Responses

NPA Boss In Japan For Global Discourse On Ports Sustainability

The Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Dr. Abubakar Dantsoho is in Kobe, Japan attending the World Port Conference.The Conference is themed *Reinvention and Prosperity in Turbulent Times and brings together port executives, policymakers and industry leaders from over 89...

April 23, 2025 No Responses

FG Inaugurates Ports, Customs Efficiency Committee

As part of measures to sustainably improve efficiencies in port operations and service delivery, the Federal Government (FG) through the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) is set to inaugurate the Ports and Customs Efficiency Committee ...

January 28, 2025 No Responses

FG Targets 25% Port Operations Cost Reduction with National Single Window

The Federal Government has announced plans to implement the National Single Window (NSW) in its bid to reduce the cost of doing business in Nigerian ports by at least 25 per cent.Indeed, as highlighted by the World Bank, the cost...

December 5, 2024 No Responses

NPA Boss Tours Eastern Ports, Harps On Increased Investment

In continuation of his resolve to galvanize port concessionaires and terminal operators into increasing their In-Country investments in Port infrastructure equipment, Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Dr. Abubakar Dantsoho, on Wednesday and Th...

November 27, 2024 No Responses

Senate Committee To Facilitate Concession Agreement Renewal

As part of its oversight function of monitoring the performances of concessioned firms, the Senate Committee on Privatisation, led by Senator Sunday Marshall Katung, has expressed the committee’s readiness to facilitate a faster renewal of Ports and Carg...

November 26, 2024 No Responses

Customs Boss Unveils New Tin Can Island Administrative Building

The Tin Can Island Port Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has been commissioned by the Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS),Unveiling the complex on Tuesday in Lagos,Adeniyi described the new look of the facilities as capable of...

March 19, 2024 No Responses

Ministry To Grow Eastern Port Vessel Traffic

The ministry of Marine and Blue Economy, on Tuesday, said it’s poised to provide the facilitation and advocacy required to grow the vessel traffic to the Eastern port. Speaking at the commissioning of 4.8km road and Marine craft at Onne...

March 7, 2024 No Responses

NPA Explains $1b Reconstruction Agenda For Tincan Island Port, Others

NPA Explains $1b Reconstruction Agenda For Tincan Island Port, Others The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has announced an ambitious $1 billion reconstruction plan for the Tincan Island Port Complex as well as the comprehensive rehabilitation of Apapa, Rivers, ...

February 13, 2024 No Responses

Oyetola Receives Port Community System Report, Lauds NPA

The Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola CON, on Tuesday, formally received the report for the implementation of the Port Community System (PCS) in Nigeria, a move that will enhance the ease of doing business in ports within...

December 20, 2023 No Responses

Ports access roads: Oyetola meets Umahi, lists 15 roads requiring urgent rehabilitation

The minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola, has said that access roads leading to the ports in Nigeria play a pivotal role in the efficiency of the ports. To this end, he has appealed to the minister of...

July 16, 2023 No Responses

WARRI PILOTAGE DISTRICT BERTHING VESSELS DESPITE CHALLENGES

Although the Escravos breakwaters constructed to prevent the siltation of the Warri channels collapsed decades ago and the current Management of the Authority, led by the Managing Director, Mohammed Bello Koko, has concluded the survey and mapping of the chann...

May 11, 2023 No Responses

NPA, Customs, NEPZA, Others Reiterate Support For Lekki Port

By Moses Ebosele, ebosele@hotmail.com Key Federal Government agencies have resumed full activities at the recently inaugurated $1.5 billion Lekki Port and Lekki Freeport Terminal. Representatives of the agencies who spoke at an interactive sess...

May 9, 2023 No Responses

Tincan Island Port Receives Largest Ever Container Vessel

The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) recorded yet another milestone today, Tuesday, May 9, 2023 with the berthing at the TinCan Island Port Complex of “the largest-ever container vessel to call at the Lagos Pilotage District”. The vessel MSc Maureen ha...

August 16, 2022 No Responses

NPA To Receive 19 Ships Laden With Petroleum Products, Frozen Fish, Bulk Sugar, Others At Lagos Port

The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), on Tuesday, disclosed that 19 ships laden with petroleum products and other items were expected at the Lagos Port Complex. The NPA, in its daily Shipping Position, explained that the ships were exp...