OPERATIVES of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, on Monday, intercepted 13 kilogrammes of a substance suspected to be hard drugs, just as three suspects were arrested in connection with the illicit cargo.
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Maritime Report
Value of Nigeria’s logistics industry hits N250bn – Report
Nigeria, Norway in talks over platform for proper pricing of fish, other perishables
THE Norwegian Fishery Council, NFC, and the Nigeria Customs are currently in talks with a view to creating a platform for the exchange of information on pricing of fish and other perishable cargoes.
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Cabotage Act: NIMASA’s bold new steps to protect indigenous operators
When recently the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) set its face against violators of the coastal and inland shipping law, after a series of engagements with stakeholders, MT Navigator Capricorn, a Liberian-registered Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) vessel, was in plain sight. Caught in the Agency’s crosshairs, MT Navigator Capricorn, which is on lease to the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Limited, and supplies cooking gas to Nigeria’s domestic market, was detained. It was later released. But the decisive statement on the enforcement of the revised guidelines on the implementation of the Cabotage Act was not lost on stakeholders.
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SEA TIME: NIMASA signs MOU with Indian maritime academy
The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, has signed an agreement with the Maritime Academy of India for onboard sea time training of some graduates of the Nigerian Seafarers Development Programme, NSDP.
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SON decries false declaration, shipping of substandard goods
The Standards Organization of Nigeria, SON, has decried wilful importation of substandard goods and false declaration by importers, warning that SON will continue to work at fishing out such importers and ensure that they face the consequences of their action.
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NIWA, marine engineers partner to eliminate sub-standard vessels on inland waterways
The management of the National Inland Waterways Authority, NIWA, has expressed concern over the use of obsolete vessels on the nation’s inland water transportation, attributing prevalent incidences of boat mishaps to this situation.
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OBANGAME Express: Creating safe corridor at the Gulf of Guinea
IT is no longer news that oil made the Gulf of Guinea, GoG, a region susceptible to criminal activities. Unfortunately, these threats pose adverse security implications on the region generally, as this corridor has been bedevilled by various forms of illegalities ranging from piracy, kidnap of sailors, crude oil theft, illicit trafficking of drugs and weapons, among other maritime crimes.
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Shippers Council’s move against illegal surcharges by shipping lines
The challenges facing Nigerian shippers are too many and from different directions. Apart from the issues of infrastructure in Nigerian ports environment that have impacted negatively on trade facilitation locally, importers have had to contend with the surcharges imposed on them by shipping agents who are acting on the dictations of multinational shipping lines under different conferences involved in the movement of goods from one continent to another.
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Only nine of 33 security points on Lagos waterways manned — Navy
There are indications that the Nigerian Navy may have been over-stretched in securing the waterways in the Lagos area as only nine out of 33 security points presently along the water area are manned.
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