How Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire bungled ECOWAS-UK post-Brexit trade deal
Expectations that small scale farmers within the Economic Community of West African States ECOWAS would soon begin to export their agricultural produce to the United Kingdom under a post-Brexit trade…
FG moves to curb corruption at Nigeria’s seaports to enhance global ranking…Appoints Shippers Council to drive new Port Process Manual
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo SAN. The Federal Government has commenced fresh moves to enhance the efficiency of the nation’s seaports through curbing acts of corruption with a view to rapidly…
Can shipping curb the tsunami of marine plastics?
No one these days can deny the huge problem plastics pose to our planet and oceans. Greenhouse gas emissions from the plastic production threaten global temperature to rise above Marine…
Ports gridlocked, retailers struggling as Brexit deadline looms
The government is facing growing pressure to take action at the UK’s gridlocked container ports, as the looming Brexit deadline is also resulting in thousands of extra truckloads of goods…
Fire incident: We share in your grief, ABTL assures NPA …Donates office equipment
From left: Managing Director, Apapa Bulk Terminal, Capt. Marvin Abe, Executive Director, Marine & Operations and representative of Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority NPA, Onari Brown and Head of Finance,…
Nigeria Immigration Service hails Shippers Council’s purposeful port regulation
From left: Conptroller, Nigeria Immigration Service, Seaport Operations Lagos Command, Comptroller Ayodele Arogundade exchange greeting with the Executive Secretary/CEO, Nigerian Shippers’ Council Hassan Bello, during the visit in Lagos, recently. …
Ports & Cargo scores self-high on barge operations …Donates office equipment to NPA over fire incident
From left: Executive Director, Marine and Operations, Nigerian Ports Authority; Onari Brown, Executive Director, Administration, Ports & Cargo Handling Services Limited Capt. Ibraheem Olugbade, and Executive Director, Operations, Ports &…
#ENDSARS attack: ENL donates computers, printers, others to NPA
From right: Vice Chairman/CEO of ENL Consortium, Princess Vicky Haastrup handing over office equipment donated by ENL Consortium to the Executive Director, Marine and Operations, Nigerian Ports Authority NPA, Onari…
Vaccine offers seafarers hope In 2021
Looking towards 2021, Sophia Bullard, Crew Welfare Director at UK P&I Club, eagerly anticipates the rollout of a Covid-19 vaccine and calls for more gender diversity at sea: “2020 has…
OPEC+ agrees to increase output after tense negotiations …Higher prices likely in Q1 over Iraq’s commitment
Tense negotiations and rumours of a rift between Saudi Arabia and UAE ended with a compromise deal for OPEC+ on 3 December 2020. Despite concerns on oversupply for Q1 2021,…
