Port access roads: Articulated vehicles, tankers suddenly disappeared on Buhari’s visit
By FRANCIS EZEM Nigeria evidently is a nation built on falsehood and hypocrisy, and this reflects in every aspect of her national life. Most of her policies, whether economic or…
MARAN Forum: Shippers Council Seeks Support For Government’s Rail Projects
From left: A lecturer with the Nigerian Institute of Shipping, Simon Chima, for Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Authority, Peter Egesi and Executive Secretary/CEO of the Nigerian Shippers Council,…
Apapa gridlock: NPA to promote use of barges to evacuate cargo
Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority, Hadiza Bala Usman By FRANCIS EZEM The Nigerian Ports Authority has said it would encourage the use of barges in the movement and transfer of…
NSDP: NIMASA gives automatic employment to 20 first class cadets …flags off first phase of cadets’ sea time training
From left: A maritime stakeholder, Mr. Emmanuel Ilori, Director General, NIMASA, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, Vice President, Arab Academy For Science, Technology And Maritime Transport, Dr. Alsnosy Balbaa, Executive Director, Maritime…
SIFAX Group wins Lagos’ Ebute-Ojo ferry terminal concession
Executive Vice Chairman, SIFAX Group, Dr. Taiwo Afolabi SIFAX Group, a multinational corporation with diverse interests in maritime, aviation, haulage and logistics, oil and gas and hospitality, has been given…
Gridlock: FG targets Dec. 2018 completion of Apapa, Tin Can Ports’ rail project
President Muhammadu Buhari The Federal Government has said it is targeting the completion of the extension of the Lagos-Ibadan Standard Gauge Rail Line to connect Apapa and Tin Can Island…
Apapa gridlock: Dangote Group decries reliance on single transport mode …Canvasses dredging of Apapa-Ikorodu waterways
Chairman of the Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote The Dangote Group, a fully diversified indigenous corporation has said that the myriads of challenges associated with transportation in Nigeria, especially around…
Storm: Over 25 merchant ships sank off Lagos not salvaged 7 years after, laments Navy
The Nigerian Navy has raised serious concerns over the inability of the Nigeria’s relevant port agencies and authorities to salvage over 25 merchant vessels that sank seven years ago as…
FG woos investors for Truck Transit Parks, insists Nigeria has no infrastructural problems
Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo The Federal Government has urged both local and foreign investors to take full advantage of investing in the Truck Transit Parks TTPs project as part…
Gridlock: Maritime stakeholders fault World Bank report on Ease of Doing Business in Nigeria
Gridlock on one of the port access roads in Apapa, Lagos Maritime stakeholders have expressed serious indifference to the recent report of the World Bank on the Ease of Doing…
