NPA begins truck e-call up system Jan to ease Apapa gridlock
The Nigerian Ports Authority NPA has concluded plans to commence electronic call up system for all trucks that pick and drop consignments at the nation’s seaports in Apapa in January…
Shippers Council mulls suspension of demurrage payments over gridlock
From left: Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Transport, Dr. Magdalene Ajani, Executive Secretary/CEO, Nigerian Shippers' Council Mr. Hassan Bello, Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, and Director Maritime Services of the…
Industrial Court halts Maritime Workers Unions’ strike at INTELS
The National Industrial Court of Nigeria, sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, has granted an Order of Interim Injunction restraining the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria MWUN and the…
Global GDP rebounded from recession in Q3, but COVID-19 threats remain
Economies around the world rebounded at a stronger-than-expected pace in the third quarter from the COVID-19 economic crash, and while a series of vaccine breakthroughs bodes well for global GDP,…
Nigeria announces immediate reopening of four land borders
Nigeria has announced its decision to immediately reopen four of its land border crossing points shut about 17 months ago, thus ending weeks of speculations that the borders closed last…
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,…
