MARITIME

Newly completed $1.5 billion Lekki Port and Lekki Freeport Terminal, its terminal operator, will help to recover Nigeria’s transship cargo lost to other neighbouring West African countries, Cotonou, Ghana, Togo and others. Speaking at a media parley in Lagos recently, the Chief Commercial Officer of Lekki Freeport Terminal, Kehinde Olubi-Neye, said the new port, which has invested close to $100 ...

The Director General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Bashir Jamoh has said that the Nigerian Blue economy with billions of dollars economic potentials may rank 7th in the global economy if fully utilized. The NIMASA, Director General who spoke at the just concluded 6th edition ofthe Nigerian International Energy Summit (NIES) in Abuja said the Nigeria Blue ...

The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) on Wednesday said six out of the 18 ships that arrived the Lagos Port Complex were discharging butane gas and petrol. It added that the remaining 12 ships were discharging general cargo, frozen fish, bulk sugar, bulk wheat container, bulk salt and bulk urea. NPA noted that 22 ships were expected at the port from ...

Maritime stakeholders have faulted the claims by the Ports Standing Task Team that its operations saved visiting ships N5.4bn they could have paid as demurrages in one year in one year.The National Coordinator of the PSTT, Moses Fadipe, while delivering its scorecard to journalists in Lagos recently, said the operations of the team had saved visiting ships over N5.4bn that ...

Ahead of the commissioning of the Lekki Deep Seaport by President Muhammadu Buhari, today, the first commercial consignment, described as the largest container vessel has berthed at the port. On the official Twitter handle of the NIgerian Ports Authority (NPA), the authority, on Sunday, announced the arrival of the vessel owned and operated by French shipping firm, CMA/CGM. “Ahead of ...

The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) on Saturday said 23 ships conveying petroleum products and other goods were expected at Lagos ports. It listed the items expected at the port as bulk sugar, frozen fish, bulk coal, automobile gasoline, jet fuel, bulk urea, base oil, bulk gypsum, general cargo, butane gas, palm oleum, container and petrol. The NPA also said that ...

The Apapa Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has said that between January to December 2022, the command collected revenue worth N1tn. Addressing journalists at the command in Apapa, Lagos on Thursday, the Customs Area Comptroller, Malanta Yusuf, said that the figure was 16 per cent higher when compared to N870bn collected by the command in the previous year. ...

Mohammed Bello Koko, Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) performance has been validated by Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR), howover he kicks over allegation of blackmail by some unknown civil society organisations (CSOs) using a section of the media to blackmail him and his family Describing the blackmailers as faceless, he said this had made it difficult ...

The Public Accounts Committee of the House of Representatives said it is temporarily relocating to Lagos to launch investigation into an alleged indebtedness to the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA). The Committee Chairman, Wole Oke, who made the disclosure, said the idea of temporary relocation was informed by the need to take the investigation close to the NPA. “The parliament will ...

Sinoma Cargo International Nigeria Limited has signed an agreement with Nigeria’s leading terminal operator, ENL Consortium Limited, to boost shipping trade between China and Nigeria. The agreement was signed in Lagos at the 5th China-Nigeria Logistics Special Line Platform Supply Chain Conference. The conference, which is held annually, was organised by the Lianyungang Port Holdings Group Co.,Ltd, Sinoma International (Nanjing) ...