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January 2, 2022 No Responses

Shippers Seek Conducive Trade Environment In 2022

Shippers are expecting a more conducive trade environment in 2022, President, Shippers Association of Lagos (SAL), Rev. Jonathan Nicole, has said. In a statement issued on Saturday, Nicole attributed the quest for a more conducive trade environment to the lingering...

November 24, 2021 No Responses

CMA CGM Adds 62 Ships, Reports $5.6b Profit

For the third quarter (Q3) of 2021, French container shipping and logistics giant, CMA CGM attained $5.6 billion income, compared to $567 million recorded in Q3 2020. Meanwhile, a total of ten new owned vessels and three new 15,000 TEU chartered...

November 10, 2021 No Responses

Shippers’ Council Visits Shipping Firms, Seeks Partnership

The Nigerian Shippers ‘Council (NSC) has sought the cooperation and collaboration of shipping companies as part of measures to drive efficiency, transparency and effectiveness of port processes. A statement issued by NSC head of Public Relatio...

October 30, 2021 No Responses

Shippers To Improve Shipping Activities At Onne, Warri Ports

The Shipping Trade Practitioners Association of Nigeria (STPAON) has pledged to boost shipping activities at Cross River, Rivers, and Delta states, popularly known as the Eastern ports. The shipping ports are in Calabar, Onne and Warri, of the three respe...

August 25, 2021 No Responses

Hassan Bello, Ex-Shippers Council Boss, Canvasses Support For Successor

Immediate past Executive Secretary, Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC), Hassan Bello, on Tuesday, said that his successor, Mr Emmanuel Jime, has immeasurable qualities that the nation’s maritime industry needs. Bello described his successor as a ‘man of st...

August 22, 2021 No Responses

Shippers Seek Stoppage Of Excessive Charges For Groupage Containers

President, Shippers Association of Lagos (SAL), Rev. Jonathan Nicole, has called for the stoppage of excessive charges for groupage containers in Nigeria. Nicole said this in a statement on Saturday in Lagos. The term groupage refers to a type...

July 6, 2021 No Responses

New Shippers’ Council Boss Seeks Staff Support

The newly appointed Executive Secretary of Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC), Mr Emmanuel Jime, has solicited for support and cooperation of his members of staff to drive the agency. Jime made the call when he assumed duty at the Abuja liaison offic...

July 5, 2021 No Responses

NEPZA To Partner Shippers’ Council On Non-Oil Sector Deliverables

The Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA) says it is ready to open multiple partnerships with the Nigerian Shippers Council (NSC) to significantly scale-up the Federal Government’s non-oil sector deliverables for the citizens. Prof. Adesoji...

July 2, 2021 No Responses

Hassan Bello: Celebrating Excellence In Service

“The x-factor of great leadership is not personality, it is humility – Jim Collins” By Francis Ugwoke — An appointment for any government position is a call to service. In a population of over 200 people, such an appointment is an...

June 30, 2021 No Responses

Shippers’ Council Seals APMDC Over Arbitrary Charges

The Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) has shut down the operations of the Associated Port & Marine Development Company (APMDC) over alleged arbitrary charges. A statement issued on Tuesday by NSC Head, Public Relation...

June 27, 2021 No Responses

NPA Receives 22 Ships Laden With Petroleum Products, Frozen Fish, Others

The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) says 22 ships at the Lagos ports are discharging bulk wheat, general cargo, frozen fish, container, bulk fertilizer, bulk sugar, automobile gasoline, bulk salt, and petrol. NPA is also expecting 1...

June 25, 2021 No Responses

Buhari Appoints Jime Shippers’ Council Boss

By citybusinessnews@yahoo.com — President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Emmanuel-Lyambee Jime as the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Shippers Council (NSC). Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicit...

April 29, 2021 No Responses

Shipowners, Seafarers Meeting On Revised Minimum Wage Deadlock

The world’s seafarers on Wednesday decided to shut down negotiations over the future of seafarers’ minimum wages with national shipowners represented by the International Chamber of Shipping. The seafarers’ unions said they would prefer to tackle the shi...

April 17, 2021 No Responses

Shippers’ Council Insists On Full Digitalisation At Seaports

The Executive Secretary, Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC), Mr Hassan Bello, on Friday disclosed that the ports in the country had attained 70 per cent digitalisation. Bello made this known at a news conference on the first quarter activities of the...