Customs vehicle duty status verification will create chaos, suffering-NLC
The Nigeria Labour Congress NLC has warned the Nigeria Customs Service that its new policy on the verification of import duty payment status of imported vehicles would bring about chaos…
130 NIMASA’s cadets graduate from Egypt, secure sea training slots
No fewer than 130 cadets under the Nigerian Seafarers Development Programme NSDP have graduated from the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Alexandria, Egypt. Meanwhile, the Arab Academy…
Apprehension heightens as Senate issues fresh order on CG Customs
Strong indications emerged that there are fresh apprehensions over the decision of the Senate, Nigeria’s upper legislative chamber yesterday to issue a fresh order on the Comptroller General of the…
Mixed reactions trail President Buhari’s return from UK
Mixed reactions have continued to trail the return of President Muhammadu Buhari to Nigeria from the United Kingdom after seven weeks of medical vacation. The President had reportedly touched…
Shippers Council, Maersk hold talks on tariff, trade dispute resolution
The Nigerian Shippers Council, commercial regulator of the nation’s seaports has commenced talks with the global container shipping giant, Maersk as part of efforts to enhance trade facilitation in the…
ISPS Code: Nigeria’s port facilities on course, says NIMASA DG
The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency NIMASA, has said that the agency would stop at nothing in ensuring that all the ports and related facilities in the country totally…
FG committed to achieving port efficiency, competitiveness, says Bello
The Nigerian Shippers Council has said that the Federal Government is more than ever before committed to carrying out more reforms that would further make the nation’s seaports achieve a…
Customs gives vehicle importers one month ultimatum on duty payment
The Nigeria Customs Service has given vehicle importers and owners one month ultimatum to pay up duty on their imported vehicles or have them impounded by operatives of the service.…
2017 budget: NIMASA projects strategic maritime industry growth, says DG
The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency NIMASA, has said that the agency is targeting to achieve a strategic growth and other developmental initiatives of the maritime industry through a…
Stakeholders laud Shippers Council on ICD, truck terminal projects
Maritime stakeholders have commended the Nigerian Shippers Council, NSC, over its vision in establishing dry port facilities across the six geo-political zones in the country popularly called Inland Container Depots…
