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• Nigeria: Marine sector can transform the economy – Bankole

    The maritime sub-sector can transform the nation’s economy if properly harnessed, Speaker of House of Representatives Dimeji Bankole has said. Bankole said this in Abuja on Tuesday while declaring open the Public Hearing organised by the Joint Committees on Marine Transport and Justice on the Chartered Institute of Shipping of

• Maritime operators complain PICOMSS attempt to transform into an agency

    The attempt to transform the ad-hoc committee raised to superintend the security system in Nigerian ports into a statutory agency of the Federal Government has been condemned by maritime operators who demanded that the committee be wound up promptly. As part of the bid to create a new agency for

• Security Consulting Group expands services with experienced IT veteran

    Security Consulting Group, a firm specializing in sophisticated physical and electronic security consulting, has announced that Mr. Bill Lawrence has joined the group as a Senior Consultant. Read at Security Consulting Group expands services with seasoned IT veteran

• Nigeria:

    There are fears that Nigeria may run out of oil and may be delisted from the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), although Petroleum geologists assured that the country’s 30 billion barrel oil reserves will be exhausted in 29 years time. But General Manager, Planning, National Petroleum Investment Management Services

• Cargo tracking system to improve safety at sea

    The managing director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Abdulsalam Mohamed, has said that the Cargo Tracking Note scheme will help ensure transparency in the maritime industry. The NPA chief made the clarification on the newly introduced Cargo Tracking Note (CTN) scheme over the weekend. He said that the objective

• Nigerian Ports Authority provides cargo tracking Levy, by Lorys Charalambous

    The Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) has introduced a cargo tracking levy (CTL) on all imports and exports, into and out of Nigerian ports, to cover the cost of tracking shipments. The NPA has said that the final decision to collect the CTL had been taken by the Nigerian Federal Executive

• Nigeria records 66 million tons of cargo in 2009

    Nigeria recorded 66 million tons of cargo in 2009, a top official with the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has said. The figure was one million tons higher than that of 2008, Abdulsalam Mohamed, managing director of NPA, disclosed this at a news conference in Lagos

• Group denounces pirates, calls for a rapid adoption of MSA account

    National Assembly has been urged to speed up the passage of the Maritime Security Agency (MSA) Bill to help curb the incessant pirate attacks along the nation’s coastal waters. Giving the charge to the law makers recently, the Lagos Pilotage District Berthing Committee noted that the attacks has taken its

• Shell Says LNG volumes reduction security situation in Nigeria

     Royal Dutch Shell Plc said second quarter sales volumes of liquefied natural gas fell 6 percent from a year earlier to 2.89 million tons mainly because of supply disruptions in Nigeria and reduced demand in the Asia Pacific region. Excluding the impact of the security situation in Nigeria, LNG sales volumes would

• Nigeria financial centers to 57 $ per barrel oil price

    Nigeria’s 2010 budget will be based on an oil price of $57 per barrel, a senior advisor to President Umaru Yar’Adua told reporters as the draft budget was presented to parliament. “The benchmark for crude oil sales is $57 per barrel,” said Mohammed Abba Aji, the presidential advisor on parliamentary

• Nigeria, Sao Tome agreed oil zone maritime security

    Nigeria and the island nation of Sao Tome and Principe have agreed to set up a joint maritime military commission to protect offshore crude oil fields and try to check piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, officials said on Monday. The two countries share a joint offshore oil development zone

• New Ireland-Nigeria ro-ro service

     DUTCH-based RMR Shipping has opened a new route between Dubliny, Ireland and Tin Can, Lagosy, Nigeria. The company has many years’ experience in exporting used vehicles, machinery and plant equipment to West Africa. Lagosy, Nigeria is the primary destination port for RMR, with additional calls in Monroviay, Liberia. Large Roll-on/Roll-off

• Nigeria: Representatives Pledge Quick Pasage Institute of Shipping Economics Bill

    SPEAKER of the House of Representatives, Honourable Dimeji Bankole has assured stakeholders in the maritime industry of a quick and accelerated passage of the bill that will charter the Certified Institute of Shipping of Nigeria (CISN). The speaker who represented by Deputy Chairman, House Committee on Marine Transport, Honourable Kalba

• Shipowners to avoid Nigerias ports against attacks

    Ship owners and chartered vessel operators are no longer willing to allow their vessels to call at any of the? Nigerian ports for fear of attack by pirates. It was learnt that the few ones that called do so at very high freights. The Secretary of the Lagos Pilotage District

• Australian Maritime Safety Authority, approved SSO training on board

    The approval reinforces Seagull’s proposition that onboard training is the most effective and cost-efficient way to approach shipboard security requirements. The Australian Maritime College (AMC) will represent Seagull AS in the Australian market as a recognised training organisation (RTO). Seagull’s Ship Security Course Package allows all crew, including Ship Security