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01 Jul

MARAN Sets to Inaugurate new Executives, Holds Breakfast Meeting on Collapsing Tin Can Port Quay Apron

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The foremost Maritime Reporters Association of Nigeria (MARAN) has concluded plans to host maritime stakeholders to a breakfast meeting to discuss workable solutions to the deplorable state of the port. The association MARAN expressed concerns over the dilapidated and collapsing quay apron of the Tin Can Island Port of Lagos, as well as the need for the rehabilitation of other ports around the country. President of MARAN, Mr Godfrey Bivbere in a press statement on Friday said the event would also be used to inaugurate the newly elected officials of the association into office. Bivbere noted that the association…

13 Jun

NPA Delivers Tug Boats to Lekki Port to Enhance Port Services

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Nigerian Port Authority (NPA) in its strive to enhance efficient and boost port services in order to reduce cargo turn around time at the port has donated two 80 -ton Bollard pull tug boats christened M.T MAIKOKO and M.T DA-OPUKORO to the management of LekkiPort LFTZ Enterprises Limited, promoters of Lekki Deep Sea Port. The neoteric tug boats are the first of the 2813 Azimuth Stern Drive model to be available in Africa, with a maneuverability of 360 degress which will enhance the maneuvering of large capacity vessels of 300 metres LOA and above. This is essential to Lekki…

05 Jun

Change of Baton at PTML Ibrahim bows out As Yusuf takes over

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In completion of the statutory year of service in the Nigeria Customs Service, the Controller in charge Port Terminal Multi-services Limited PTML Comptroller Ali Mahmoud Ibrahim has honorably relinquished power to next man online in the person of Comptroller Saidu Abba Yusuf to continue to stir the affairs of the Command. The new Controller, Comptroller Saidu Abba Yusuf joined the Nigeria Customs Service in 1991. He has vast experience spanning over three decades in the Service having impacted positively in various areas where he has served , now assumed office today 5th of June 2023 as the Customs Area…

28 May

MWUN Condemns The idea of Maritime Ministry

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The President General of Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) who also doubled as Deputy President of Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) Prince Adewale Adeyanju opined that the incoming government should overlook the clamor for the creation of Maritime Ministry but to make efficiency the key word in all parastatal. Prince Adeyanju said this during the monthly roundtable event organized by the Maritime Journalists Association of Nigeria (MAJAN) at their secretariat in Apapa, Lagos State. The NLC Deputy President is appealing to the incoming president who is a democrat and an activist to make efficiency, professionalism and people’s perspectives his…

20 May

Lekki Port Records New Achievement Berths its Largest Vessel

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Glaring record of new milestone achievement as Lekki Deep Seaport again berthed the first largest vessel on Friday 17th of May 2023. The Length Over All (LOA) vessel a 300 Meter christened CMA-CGM RABELAIS with capacity of 6570 TEUs. The christened CMA-CGM Rabelais will be discharging and loading export 200 TEUs cargoes in exchange. CMA-CGM originated the journey from Shanghai, China and called at LekkiPort being the largest vessel to have berthed since the commencement of commercial operations at the port in April 2023. The CMA CGM Rabelais which is second to Total’s Egina FPSO in the World…

16 May

NIMASA Acquires Four Addtional Zonal Offices in Abuja, Port Harcourt, Calabar & Lokoja

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...... commissions Abuja Zone while others are up coming Alongside an unfriendly economic situation that has its negative effects on the nation, the Nigerian Maritime Administration Agency (NIMASA ) has strived to acquired four landed properties for its Zonal Offices in Abuja, Port Harcourt, Calabar, Lokoja The permanent zonal offices are situated in four zones of the Country in order to boost it’s role as apex maritime administration in Nigeria. The agency commissioned Abuja Zone today while its revealed the readiness to commission a state of the art hospital to the benefit of all Nigerian seafarers and Nigerian people at…

16 May

Lekki Port Set to Adopt Electronic call-up system for Transhipments

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The Chief Executive Officer of Lekki Freeport Terminal, Mr Yann Magarian The promoters of the Lekki Deep Sea Port- Lekki Port LFTZ Enterprise Limited (LPLEL) and the terminal operator-Lekki Freeport Terminal (LFT) have announced the readiness of the Port for transhipment operations and restore the status of Nigeria as a cargo transhipment hub, especially within the West Africa region. The Chief Executive Officer of Lekki Freeport Terminal, Mr Yann Magarian, made this known while fielding questions from shipping and maritime editors during a joint media parley organised by the two companies held at the Port in Lagos on Wednesday,…

16 May

Jamoh Awarded the FG Best Servant to the Public in the Year 2022

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The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration And Safety Agency (NIMASA) Dr Bashir Jamoh OFR has emerged as the best obedient servant from the Federal Government of Nigeria to the public in the year 2022. This award was given by Champion Newspaper Nigeria Limited. Dr Jamoh amongst Others prominent Nigerians who alongside were rewarded for their good stewardship were , Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State, Babajide Sanwo Olu of Lagos State, and Audu Abdullah’s Sule of Nasarawa State were awarded in different categories. The award ceremony was presented on behalf of the organizers in Lagos by the…

12 May

Lekki Port Gazette Nigeria for Global Maritime Trade

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Contrary to hallucinations of the stakeholders in Maritime sector that Lekki Freeport Terminal is in competition with other ports , LFT has set the notion straight that they are focusing on their focus which is to shape the maritime economy of the country by making it attractive and irresistible to the whole World. The information was passed across through LFT Chief Commercial Officer Mr Kehinde Olubi-Neye during a media parley organized by the company at their port complex conference room at Ibeji Lekki inside Lagos state recently . The Chief Commercial Officer said that the port is aiming towards improving…

28 Apr

MARAN Elects its New Executive Advised Aggrieved Persons to “Go to Court”

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The long controversial election process that has being going on for a while now among the members of Maritime Reporters Association Nigeria MARAN came to an end recently as the chairman of Nigeria Union of Journalist NUJ Lagos state chapter Mr Adeleye Ajayi sworn in the unopposed executives from election which he described rare and fair to stir the affairs of the Association till 2026. According to Mr Ajayi the NUJ chairman who was once a president and still a member of the Association , emphasized that the situation of the unopposed team is unusual and as not being…