Maritime Report
Cargo Tracking Note: Managing insecurity and building a sustainable Nigeria
By Kingsley Anaroke NIGERIA has been besieged by the outbreak of violence and conflicts which have over the years claimed thousands of lives and property. This is owing to
Calabar Port ships first cocoa export to US 14 yrs after concession
By Evelyn Usman THE Calabar seaport, Cross River State, has recorded a historic 7,000 metric tonnes of cocoa export shipment to the United States of America, USA, the first time
Shippers Council to go after those frustrating e-call-up system
By Godfrey Bivbere THE Nigerian Shippers Council, NSC, is getting set for a clamp down on those allegedly sabotaging the electronic truck call-up (e-call-up) system. The e-call-up is a new
Barge operators set up P & I club for members
• Shippers Council pledges support By Godfrey Bivbere BARGE operators under the aegis of Barge Operators Association of Nigeria, BOAN, have set up a P&I Club, an insurance outfit
Nigeria needs more functional ports to ease Apapa gridlock
By Emma Una – Calabar Managing Director of Nigeria Export-Import Bank, NEXIM, Alhaji Abba Bello, says Nigeria needs more functional port terminals to facilitate the export and import of goods,
Apapa gridlock is a designed extortion tool – CREFFPON
File photo of containers-laden trucks on Oshodi-Apapa road. •Laments non-development of eastern port By Godfrey Bivbere and Providence Adeyinka The Congregation of Registered Freight Forwarding Practitioners of Nigeria, CREFFPON,
Call-up system makes impacts, cuts off N100m daily bribe
By Godwin Oritse There are indications that the newly introduced electronic call-up system for truck access to the seaports may have started yielding results. Stakeholders told Vanguard Maritime Report that
End influx of expired containers to ease Apapa traffic – Expert
A choked-up section of the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway, taken over by trucks. Photos by Joe Akintola, Photo Editor, Kehinde Gbadamosi, Bunmi Azeez, and Akeem Salau. By Providence Adeyinka Until shipping companies
NDLEA rues over shipment of illegal cargoes through Nigeria’s seaports
By Godfrey Bivbere THE National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has said some ships and their crew bring in illegal consignments from the port of origin into the country. NDLEA
Bitumen, petroleum products lead import chart for March
Sea port By Godwin Oritse THERE are indications that the road construction sub-sector industry of the Nigerian economy could be experiencing a boom as Bitumen, a major raw material for
