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$438M INVESTMENT : APM Terminals Apapa Unveils New Smart Office Building
Nigeria’s largest container terminal, APM Terminals Apapa has commissioned a new digitalised administrative building as part of its $438 million investment in Nigeria port infrastructure .
The commissioning of the new smart building,…
BLACK SEA: 100 Foreign Flag Ships, 1,000 Seafarers Trapped , As IMO Seeks Safe Maritime Corridor
With more than 1,000 seafarers stranded on ships in Ukrainian ports and food supplies running low, the United Nations is pressing for their safe passage out of danger but security risks and disagreements are hobbling those efforts, maritime…
ANLCA Lost Over N20m To Secretariat Attack By Thugs-Nwabunike
The National President of the Association of Nigeria Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA), Hon. Tony Iju Nwabunike has disclosed that the association lost over N20 million to the second attack unleashed on the national secretariat by thugs.…
Five Tugboats Deployed To Refloat MV Ever Forward
The first attempt to refloat MV Ever Forward will take place on Tuesday, March 29, using configuration of five tugs; including two pushing on the port side, two pulling on the starboard side, one long pull from stern.
The attempt to…
Grimaldi , PTML Describe Host Communities As Hostile , Threat To Port Operations
Grimaldi Shipping , Port and Terminal Multiservices Limited, (PTML) have described waterfront communitiy at Tin Can Island Port as hostile and threat to the progress of port operations.
The multinationals said constant unleashing of…
EXCLUSIVE : NPA Slams Barge Operators With Multiple Levies Payable In Foreign Currency
By Roland Ekama
Even as stakeholders have continued to decry the lull in business through cargo movement via the waterways , the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), has imposed fresh levies and dues for barge operators…
STCW-F : Kenya Ratifies Fishing Vessel Safety Treaties
Kenya has shown its support for the safety of fishing vessels and their crews by depositing its instrument of ratification to the 2012 Cape Town Agreement and the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and…
Barge Operators Decry Dwindling Fortune Over Sharp Drop Of Importation
Barge operators in Lagos State have expressed worries over the lull in business following the drop of cargo Importation into the country and reduction cost rates by truck owners.
The bargers lamented that the business of moving…
Ukraine Troops Destroy Russian Ship At Sea Of Azov
Ukraine said on Thursday it had destroyed a large Russian landing support ship, the Orsk, at the Russian-occupied port of Berdiansk on the Sea of Azov.
Video footage, which Reuters was able to confirm was filmed from inside…
ITF, Group Initiate Evacuation Of Seafarers From Ukraine
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), the Marine Transport Workers' Trade Union of Ukraine (MTWTU) and V.Group have put together by funding an organisation for the evacuation of seafarers and their families from Ukraine and…