Shipping demand recovering but COVID to have long-term effect -Hapag-Lloyd
Shipping demand recovering but COVID to have long-term effect -Hapag-Lloyd German container shipping firm Hapag-Lloyd is benefitting from a rebound in transport demand but its chief executive warned about the…
Global cooperation necessary to digitalise shipping industry, enhance global trade
Digitalising the shipping industry can enhance global trade, but it will require stakeholders around the world to cooperate, said Senior Minister of State for Transport and Foreign Affairs Chee Hong…
Why Africa’s Okonjo-Iweala should head WTO
Francis Ezem The recent emergence of Nigeria’s candidate for the position of the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation WTO, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, as one of the two female candidates…
Piracy: NIMASA, Navy, others set to operationalise Maritime Reporting Framework
DG NIMASA, Dr Bashir Jamoh Industry partners under the aegis of the NIMASA Industry Working Group NIWG are currently working with the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency NIMASA towards…
Global economy will shrink by over 4% in 2020- Ifo
Economic experts predict that the coronavirus pandemic will result in a cent contraction in the global economy in 2020. Germany’s Ifo Institute and the EconPol Europe research network polled 950…
OPEC projects global oil demand to peak around 2040, as pandemic lowers growth
OPEC has for the first time forecast the peak in global demand, estimating that the world’s thirst for oil will stop growing in about 20 years. With the coronavirus pandemic…
SIFAX Group opens Ijora terminal to save shippers from Apapa gridlock
From left: Group Managing Director, SIFAX Group; Adekunle Oyinloye, Managing Director, Instarmac Nigeria; Deacon Wale Afolabi, Executive Director, Marine and Operations, Nigerian Ports Authority Onari Brown, and President -General, Maritime…
Armed thugs invade ANLCA secretariat …As President warns enough is enough
No fewer than 40 armed with AK47, Pump Action guns, pistols, daggers and dangerous charms invaded the national secretariat of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents ANLCA, located at…
Global Maritime Issues Monitor 2020: Global economic crisis tops decision makers’ concerns …As climate, environment top agenda despite COVID-19
Maritime decision makers deem a global economic crisis as the issue that can have the greatest impact on the industry in the next ten years, reveals the Global Maritime Issues…
NIMASA sets 90-day deadline for Cabotage vessels’ registration, renewals …Warns IOCs against non-compliance
The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency NIMASA has given all vessel owners including the International Oil Companies IOCs under the Coastal and Inland Shipping Cabotage policy a 90-day deadline…
