MARITIME

Photo From left: Honorable Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola, CON; Comptroller-General of Customs, Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Bashir Adewale Adeniyi; Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Mohammed Bello-Koko and Director-General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr Bashir Jamoh, during the International Customs Day celebration in Lagos. The Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola, ...

The Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Zacch Adedeji, has charged non-domestic companies shipping crude oil from Nigeria to ensure strict compliance with the country’s tax laws in their operations.Adedeji gave the charge in Lagos at a workshop on taxation of non-resident shipping companies organised by the FIRS in conjunction with Oil Producers Trade Section (OPTS) on Monday.He said the ...

An oil-laden vessel with no documentation and approvals, arrested on the creeks of Delta by operatives of the Nigerian Navy Ship Delta, was on Tuesday in Warri, handed over by the Commander, NNS Delta, Commodore Chindo Yahaya, to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for detailed investigation and further necessary action.Yahaya, represented by the Base Operations Officer, NNS Delta, Navy ...

Soljas Maritime Limited, owner of the vessel MV Cecilia Imo, conveying the Automotive Gas oil (AGO), also known as diesel. that was destroyed on August 22 by members of the Marine Component of the Military Joint Task Force of Operation Delta Safe (OPDS), has dragged the Nigerian Navy, Chief of Naval Staff, and the Commander of the Nigerian Navy Ship ...

The NLNG Shipping and Marine Services Limited (NSML), a subsidiary of the Nigerian Liquified Natural Gas, NLNG, has launched its Clean Waterways Initiative, a programme to raise awareness of the dangers of plastic pollution and to advocate for action to address the issue. Speaking on the initiative, the Chief Executive Officer of NSML, Mr Abdulkadir Ahmed, highlighted the urgency of ...

The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA has taken over areas leased to it by the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) at the Continental Shipyard for the operations of the Modular Floating Dock. According to NIMASA, the areas include but not limited to the dolphin jetty, waterfront of the jetty adjourning the slipway, an administrative block, a construction, welding and ...

Seafarers have said that the Nigerian maritime industry has the potential to generate $100bn annually if properly harnessed. The seafarers said this on Sunday at an event to commemorate the 2023 World Seafarers Day, organised by the Joint Body of Nigerian Seafarer’s Professional Group comprising the Female Seafarers Association of Nigeria; Concerned Seafarers Forum; Merchant Seafarers Association of Nigeria; 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 ...