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25 Jan 2023

Nigeria Opens 'Game Changer' Billion-dollar Deep Seaport

The US$1.5 billion Lekki Deep Sea Port is commissioned in Lagos, Nigeria. (Photo: Nigerian Ports Authority)

Nigeria opened a billion-dollar Chinese-built deep seaport in Lagos on Monday, which is expected to ease congestion at the country's ports and help it become an African hub for transshipment, handling cargoes in transit for other destinations.President Muhammadu Buhari has made building infrastructure a key pillar of his government's economic policy, and hopes that this will help his ruling party win votes during next month's presidential election.The new Lekki Deep Sea Port is 75% owned by the China Harbour Engineering Company and Tolaram group…

27 Nov 2019

Nigeria Ports in Pact with Port of Antwerp

The Antwerp port community and its various partners are currently on a trade mission to West-Africa, including Benin and Nigeria.A collaboration agreement was signed between Port of Antwerp International (PAI), the consultancy and investment subsidiary of Port of Antwerp, and APEC, its maritime training center, and Nigerian Ports Authority, which manages the 6 ports of Nigeria. This collaboration, which will mainly take the form of training and consulting, underlines the leading role that the port of Antwerp plays in West Africa.The port of Antwerp is known in Africa as the maritime center of Europe, thanks to the numerous supply chain connections. The synergy between maritime, logistics and industrial activities creates a unique platform.

16 Dec 2018

Nigerian Ports Authority Calls for Eradicating Port Congestion

The Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority, Hadiza Bala Usman, has called on terminal operators, shipping companies, port managers and allied stakeholders to do all they could to eradicate or at best mitigate the effects of the present congestion at the nation’s seaports.According to the Managing Director, the issue of ports congestion should be of concern to all and therefore they should look into the issue of evacuation of empty containers, increase in free days of storage, wavering of demurrage for a definite period of time, creating a window of some period to accommodate the concerns of importers, etcThe Managing Director told the Stakeholders that the meeting was convened in compliance with a directive from the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and Chairman…

05 Dec 2018

Unfair Reporting on Piracy, Says Nigeria

The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside, has called on the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) to ensure fairness and balance in its reportage of piracy issues on Nigeria’s territorial waters.Dakuku regretted what he called the exaggeration of reports on incidences on the country’s waterways by the IMB, a specialised department of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) dedicated to fighting maritime crime and malpractice.The DG noted that the Agency had put mechanisms in place to reduce piracy to the barest minimum. These, he said, include investing in the satellite surveillance system…

26 Feb 2018

Nigeria to Automate Shipping Processes

The Federal Government of Nigeria is set to automate all shipping related administrative processes in order to reduce subjectivity and corruption, thereby promoting transparency in the Nigerian maritime industry. This comes as a result of Nigeria's quest to ensure the growth and development of the maritime sector and in line with the Presidential order on the Ease of Doing Business in Nigeria. According to the eighteen point communiqué, Stakeholders agreed that in order to realize the desired accelerated growth of the Nigerian maritime sector, the Ministry and its Agencies should explore alternate financing windows such as the establishment of Maritime Bank to address the financing gap created by the unsuitability of lending rates of Nigerian banks for the shipping business…

07 Apr 2016

NPA Enforces Minimum Safety Standards At Ports

The Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) Mallam Habib Abdullahi has called on all stakeholders in the Maritime Industry especially Truck Owners using the ports to show greater support and understanding in the quest by Management to uphold the enforcement and implementation of the minimum standard for trucks entering the Ports. The Managing Director made this call at the flag off of the enforcement of registration and implementation of minimum standards for all trucks doing business in Western Ports. He affirmed that the exercise was necessary as a result of Management’s concern to prevent constant incidence that has led to loss of lives of innocent citizens within and outside the ports as well as meeting International standards on safety.

23 Jul 2015

Shippers Demand Probe of Abandoned Calabar Port Dredging

The Nigerian Shippers Council (NSC) in Cross River State has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to probe the N20 billion contract awarded to Calabar Channel Management (CCM) for dredging Calabar Port by former President Goodluck Jonathan. The shippers lamented that the dredging contract has become a conduit pipe through which successive administrations in the country looted funds, adding that every 10 years, the contract is awarded, money paid while contractors disappear from site after collecting money. The President of Nigerian Shippers Association, Calabar branch, Mr. Mike Ogodo demanded that NPA should come out clear to assure the public that the 2014 dredging award was not a scam experienced in the past.

06 Apr 2015

Lekki Deep Sea Port Hit a Snag

The absence of a plan to construct a rail link that will ease cargo evacuation will create delay in the Federal Government's commitment of $118 million to the construction of Lekki Deep Seaport in Lagos, as per a report in Daily Independent. The deep seaport project is a $1.5 billion public private partnership project among the Federal Government (represented by the Nigerian Ports Authority), the Lagos State Government and the Tolaram Group, a Singaporean investor who are promoters of the project. Lekki deep seaport, Nigeria’s biggest seaport project estimated to cost over $1.55 billion worth of investment capital, has set 2018 as its business commencement date as well as operational take-off date.

25 Mar 2015

Ships Queues Creep into Lagos ports

19 ships laden with petrol and other commodities are discharging at the Lagos ports, says Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) in its daily publication `Shipping Position’. Three of the ships were laden with petrol, while the others had diesel, steel products, containers, bulk salt, bulk gypsum, fish, fertilizer, rice, general cargo and crude palm oil. No fewer than 36 ships loaded with various products are expected to arrive at the ports in Lagos from March 24 to April 17, the NPA said. According to the NPA, 14 of the ships would sail into the ports with containers, while 11 others are expected to come in laden with petroleum products. The petroleum products include base oil, petrol, kerosene, diesel and aviation fuel.

19 Jan 2015

Congestion hits Lagos Ports

With 11 vessels have been waiting to get a space to berth in  Lagos Ports Complex (LPC) in order to discharge cargo since December 2014 heavy congestion hits Lagos Ports General Cargo Terminal. More than 251,860 metric tons (MT) of cargo are currently stranded at Terminal C and D of the LPC, Apapa, operated by ENL Consortium Limited. The industry observers say that this has become a regular feature in that terminal, raising questions about efficiency of its cargo handling equipment. The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) said in its daily publication - `Shipping Position’ that of this figure, 130,382 MT is bulk rice, 56,578 MT are general cargo and 33,000 MT is fertilizer. Gypsium is 25,000 metric tons and fish is 6,900 MT.

17 Dec 2014

Nigeria Maritime Workers' Strike Looms Large

There are strong indications that the Maritime Workers of Nigeria (MWUN) may shut down port operations nationwide from tomorrow (17 December), and begin an indefinite strike over a number of longstanding issues. At the weekend, the union notified the relevant authorities - such as the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), the Nigerian Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) and terminal operators – of the intention to shut down the ports, if the latest ultimatum given to the government to address the pending issues passed without any action yesterday (15 December).

25 May 2012

Nigerian Port Container Throughput Up in Q1 2012

Nigerian port container throughput has increased in the first quarter by 5.7 per cent to 210,057 TEU laden due to investments by the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and terminal operators, said the NPA general manager Michael Ajayi. Vessel traffic surged by 42 per cent to 63,992 units compared to previous year's 45,077 while empty container throughput rose by 18.9 per cent to 161,107 TEU year on year. The concession programme starting in 2006 led to a massive marine improvement in port infrastructure which involved the laying of channel marker buoys, maintenance dredging and the removal of 24 wrecks along the Lagos Channels. Investment…

16 Nov 2007

Ships Collide Causing Damage at Lagos Port

A container ship, the MSC Pillar, which was on its way to Tin Can Island Port, has run into another ship on anchorage, inflicting severe damage on the vessel at the Lagos Port Complex, Apapa. Josco Suzhou, a 35,000 metric tonne vessel laden with 6,524 metric tonnes of bulk gypsum, was discharging at Berth 19 of the port complex at the weekend inside the terminal owned by Greenview Development Nigeria Ltd. when the MSC Pilar came on it. Eyewitnesses told the Nigerian Tribune that MSC Pilar was being piloted by one of the marine pilots of the Nigerian Ports Authority when it suddenly lost control and to avoid running into an on-coming bigger ship, went onto the Josco Suzhou which was at berth.

24 May 2001

Port Congestion Chokes Nigeria's Economy

Worsening congestion at Nigeria's major ports is crippling the economy of the West African sub-region. Manufacturers say essential cargoes are stranded at the ports and their factories are on the brink of closing down, as a standoff between importers and the government showed no signs of easing. "A number of those containers that have been out there for weeks contain industrial raw material," an industry source said. Prices of manufactured goods in Nigeria and in the sub-region are reported to have increased noticeably, some goods by as much as 35 percent since the problems at the ports began three weeks ago. Officials of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) said they would comment on the situation after a meeting in southeast Nigeria later on Thursday.

31 May 2001

Dockers Union Orders Strike After Violence Erupts at Nigerian Port

A Nigerian dockers' union said on Thursday it had ordered a strike at Lagos' Apapa port after three men died, bringing the port to a standstill when it is struggling to clear the worst congestion for 25 years. The Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) said it had asked its members to stop work following an incident in which three men died after inhaling poisonous fumes on Wednesday. "We received a report yesterday that two of our members died at the Apapa port after inhaling dangerous gas while working on a vessel," union officer Tony Anyanwu said. Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) spokesman Babatunde Sanni said he was not aware of the deaths or any walkout by workers.