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Peterside Claims Nigeria’s Piracy Rating ‘Exaggerated’
With latest reports by several international organisations labelling Nigeria’s territorial waters as having the highest level of pirate attacks on commercial shipping, the Nigerian Administration and Safety Agency…
NPA Tasks PFSOs On Security At Seaports
By Ngozi Onyeakusi ---All Ports Facility Security Officers (PFSOs) have been charged to double their efforts and remain vigilant in their various facilities in order to curb…
Nigeria Losses $9.1bn Freight Revenue To Foreign Shipping Lines Annually — Shippers Council
By Ngozi Onyeakusi -- Nigeria Shippers Council (NSC) at the weekend regret that Nigeria was losing $ annually on freight revenue that would have accrued to its…
FG To Evolve New Gas Policy As Three Modular Refineries May Come On Stream In 2019
Only 10 of the 40 companies that secured licenses for modular refineries have begun the process of executing the projects with three likely to come on stream…
Police Arrest 7 Customs Officers For Allegedly Killing Woman
The Nigeria Police in Badagry, said it had arrested seven customs officers over the killing one Mrs Patience Oni and injuring an innocent man at Forte Oil Filling…
Piracy, Oil Theft: 52 Vessels, 40 Persons Currently In Our Custody — Navy
The Flag Officer Commanding, Western Naval Command, Rear Adm. Habila Ngalabak with other senior officers during a group photograph at the Maritime Offences and Procedures for…
FG Plans Demolition Of Parts Of Lagos Ports For Construction Of Rail Lines
The Minister of Transport, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, has disclosed plans to demolish parts of Lagos Ports terminals to give way for both ongoing construction of standard and narrow…
Stakeholders Decry Misuse Of Yet-To-Be-Commissioned Port Access Road
While yet to be completed, truck owners have already began using the stretch of the Wharf-Ijora access road to Apapa Port that is yet to be completed. And…
Senate Committee Rues Slow Pace Of Apapa Trailer Park Project
The Senate Committee on Works has expressed serious concern over the slow pace of the ongoing shoreline protection of the Apapa trailer park project in Lagos. The Chairman of…
Low Draught: NPA Wants Flat Bottom Vessels Deployed To Warri, Eastern Ports
Shipping operators have been urged to deploy Flat Bottom Vessels (FBVs) for their shipping businesses in Warri and eastern ports to beat the challenge of low draught…