From left: Former Executive Secretary/CEO, Nigerian Shippers Council, Barrister Hassan Bello presents the MARAN awards to Mr. Philips Ojo of the PR department, who represented the Chairman of SIFAX, Taiwo Afolabi at the event at the weekend in Lagos.

SIFAX Group has won the Most Outstanding Maritime Company of the Year award while its chairman, Dr. Taiwo Afolabi, emerged the Maritime Person of the Decade.  

While the SIFAX Group award was conferred at the 2022 Brandcom Awards organised by Brand Communicator, Nigeria’s foremost marketing communications magazine, the chairman’s award honour came via the Maritime Reporters Association of Nigeria MARAN at its just concluded 34th anniversary celebration held in Lagos last week.  

According to Joshua Ajayi, convener of the BrandCom Awards and publisher of the Brand Communicator, SIFAX Group has continued to set the pace in the maritime sector with novel solutions that have impacted the industry. 

 He said: “We have monitored the progress of SIFAX Group during the 2021/2022 business year and have found out that the company’s innovative solutions continue to positively impact the country’s maritime industry. The standards set by the company are high and we could not have selected a better company in the industry. We are proud of what the company is doing, and we urge them to keep it up”.

From left: Public Relations Manager of SIFAX Group, Mr. Muyiwa Akande and PR officer, Mr. Philips Ojo display the Brandscom award presented to the Group in Lagos.

On his own part, Chairman of the MARAN Caretaker Committee, Gboyega Oni, said the choice of Dr. Taiwo Afolabi for the award was not far-fetched owing to his tactful business acumen that has propelled SIFAX Group to a whole new height with impactful investments in the maritime sector.  

“SIFAX Group has been a trailblazer in the maritime sector in the last decade. Aside from investments in terminal operations, its off-dock solutions have positively affected the industry”, he said.  

In his response, Olumuyiwa Akande, Group Head, Corporate Communications, SIFAX Group, lauded the organisers of the award for the honour, adding that the Group would seek to improve on the standards that have brought it these accolades.