Port News – Page 13 – Shipping World News Magazine

Jan52018 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Nigeria Customs Service: How We Hit the Hit Trillion Naira Mark

The Nigeria Customs Service says it generated the sum of one trillion naira in revenue as against the target of N770, 573, 730, 490 due to measures put in place by the Col. Hammed Ali management. At a breakfast meeting with maritime journalists in Lagos, the National Public Relations Officer, DC Joseph Attah, stated that, although analysts have concluded that the revenue generated for 2017 was inferior to the figure for 2014, they were not conversant with the following economic indices. For instance, in 2014 experienced with 41 items removed from accessing forex. Rice, which raked in N56.8 bullion could not even contribute up to half a billion in 2017. Besides, the volume of imports declined considerably owing to government policy such that in 2014, the duties collected were N122bn, ...

Nov292017 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Save our ports system from collapse, NAGAFF tells FG

Breaking News, Business, Port News

The National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders, NAGAFF, has called on the federal government to urgently address the issue of high port charges imposed on cargoes by shipping companies in order to save the port system from imminent collapse. It further stated that there were official hindrances deliberately put on the path of ports in the Eastern axis, thus making them unenviable and unattractive. These assertions were made in a memo sent to the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman. In the said letter, NAGAFF stated that the port access roads leading into the Apapa premier port had become a national eyesore. "It is now a national shame that the primary gateway access road to the nation's economy is in crisis and a disaster to ...

Nov232017 by Asu BeksNo Comments

NPA rolls out ease of doing business model in Eastern ports

Maritime, Port News

In continuation of its ongoing interaction with the Port Communities, the Management of Nigerian Ports Authority have met with maritime stakeholders in Onne and Port Harcourt Areas, where they met with Operators with a view to identifying areas of needs in order for the Authority to engender greater operational efficiency at the Nation’s Seaports. The Managing Director of NPA, Hadiza Bala Usman, who was ably represented by Executive Director, Marine and Operations, Dr Sokonte Huttin Davies stated that it is imperative for all Agencies at the Ports to contribute meaningfully towards actualizing and facilitate Ease of Doing Business at the Ports, stressing that Management on its part would work towards creating an enabling environment for Stakeholders to operate optimally. The interac...

Nov222017 by Asu BeksNo Comments

NPA: Port reform without road reform

Business, Port News

by Sylvanus Ekpo These are not the best of times for the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA. It is no longer news that the port access roads at Apapa and Tin Can Island ports are in a terrible state of disrepair. According to the Port Act of 1954 as amended, section 32 mandates the NPA to regulate traffic that is moving in and the one which is approaching but over the years, due to executive recklessness, the access roads were allowed to decay and today they have become an embarrassment to everybody, a congenital eyesore in the face of our port concession. Before the ports were concessioned in 2006 to private terminal operators by government, the NPA had a yearly throughput of 35million tons of cargo, a figure that could hardly be managed then. But, after the concession in March 2006, the...

Nov202017 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Apapa Gridlock Conduit Pipe for Extortion By Taskforce – Survey

Breaking News, Business, Law, Maritime, Port News

Backdropped against the decision by the Lagos State government to institute a joint security task force, it has become apparent that some selfish personnel are taking advantage of their new status to extort the people. As trailers and tankers jostle for space to inch towards the ports or tank farms, a syndicate operating within the "chaotic axis" is busy extorting money from the drivers to pay their way through the logjam. Investigations carried out by Shipping World reveal that drivers pay as much as #50,000 to #100,000 to be allowed to shunt the queue and head straight under escort into the port for business. This often takes place at night when Lagos is asleep. It is not clear if this syndicate has the backing of the authorities in Alausa but there are concerns that the unsavoury...

Oct312017 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Apapa, Tin Can Ports Should be Shut … Hassan Bello.

Port News

The Executive Secretary of Nigerian Shippers Council , Hassan Bello Monday shocked maritime stakeholders when he called on the Federal Government to shut down the Apapa and Tin Can Ports. Bello said both ports have outlived their usefulness and no amount of artificial face lift would return them to their past glory. The Shippers Council helmsman who was contributing to a paper "Ensuring Safe and Secure Waterways Transportation" delivered by Rear Admiral AA Oshinowo at activities to commemorate the World Maritime Day in Lagos Monday said, " if the truth must be told, we all must agree here that these pioneer ports have outlived their usefulness and have been stretched beyond limits. No infrastructural face lift can return them to their peak .What ever we do to them would amount to a waste o...

Oct302017 by Asu BeksNo Comments

INTELS in fresh crises with OGFZA

Business, Law, Port News

Oil and gas logistics giant and port concessionaire, INTELS Nigeria Limited (INL), is in fresh trouble as the Oil and Gas Free Zones Authority (OGFZA) has ordered a comprehensive audit of a decade of its operations (2006-2016).The development came as INTELS, a company largely owned by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, began to feel relief from a similar rift with the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA). OGFZA, in a letter to the Managing Director of INTELS, Simone Volpi, obtained by Our Correspondent yesterday, said it had appointed a team of auditors to carry out the compliance audit of the embattled firm, a concessionaire of NPA, over alleged “serial violation” of the laws and regulations governing operations in the free zone. The Managing Director of OGFZA, Umana Okon Umana, said t...

Oct302017 by Asu BeksNo Comments

NIMASA approves 250 Cadets for Sea time Training

Breaking News, Business, Port News

Succour has last come the way of the graduates of NIMASA's seaferers development program as the first batch of about 250 Cadets have been invited to the NIMASA' Corporate head office , Lagos, this week for documentation . The documentation Shipping World learnt is preparatory to the placement of the Cadets who completed their degree programs over three years ago to be placed on the mandatory one year on board training before certification. The Agency's Executive Director Maritime Labour and Cabotage Services ,Mr Gambo Ahmed confirmed to Shipping World exclusively in Lagos Monday that NIMASA have concluded arrangements with selected Ship owners in the UK and Cairo , Egypt for the placements. One of the beneficiaries Eniye Emokpo was full of praises for the Director General of NIMAS...

Oct292017 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Amaechi hosts World Maritime Day on Monday

Port News

Nigerian's Transportation Minister Rt Hon Rotimi Amaechi would Monday at the prestigious Eko Hotel in Lagos , host Maritime Stakeholders at Nigeria's version of the global event . The event which would attract the creme da LA creme in the industry is must attend for all top functionaries of parastatals under the Federal Ministry of Transportation. Papers are expected to delivered by key players and experts at the one day event.

Oct292017 by Asu BeksNo Comments

INTELS collected naira bills in dollars— Stakeholders

Business, Law, Politics, Port News

As Nigerians await patiently for the outcome of the lucrative boat pilotage contract which INTELS monopolized for almost two decades, more facts have emerged on how the Logistics giants fraudulently ripped off Nigerian importers. Chief Reginald Amadi ,the Spokesman for the Edo/ Delta chapter if the Association of Nigeria Licensed Customs Agents revealed that was wrong for INTELS to collect dollar payments for local transactions. He said , " I think INTELS got into trouble because they went beyond the brief of the agreement, they took things for granted. I think NPA just found out that INTELS was deviating from its obligations and decided to wield the big stick', he said. Chief Amadi said it was not true that 11,000 jobs would be lost if INTELS lost the contract insisting there were o...