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NIMASA calls for urgent removal of abandoned ships and wrecks

Saint AugustineBy Saint AugustineApril 2, 2017No Comments3 Mins Read
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…Warns erring owners risk sanctions.

In a bid to ensure safe and secure shipping on the Nigerian territorial waters, the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has warned all owners of abandoned Ships/Vessels to urgently remove same from the Nigerian territorial waters on or before 28th of April 2017 or risk sanctions ranging from forfeiture or removal by the agency at the owners expense.

The Director General of the agency, Dr. Dakuku Peterside who stated this recently in Lagos noted that it was instructive to ensure that the nation’s waters remain safe for navigation in order to advance the Nigerian maritime interests.

He therefore warned that all abandoned ships would be declared as wrecks and that the agency would ensure that nothing impedes safe navigation in the nation’s waters by removing them.

In his words “in line with our mandate on the protection of the marine environment and safety of navigation within Nigerian waters and our powers as the receiver of wrecks; owners of all abandoned ships, vessels and derelicts are sternly warned to seek removal plan permits from the agency and ensure the removal of these wrecks and derelicts from our waters on or before April 28th, 2017, failure of which would attract appropriate sanction”.

The NIMASA helmsman also reeled out the sanctions to include removal of such wrecks at the owners’ expense as well as forfeiture of the vessels stating that the agency was empowered to do so in line with the powers vested in it by the Merchant Shipping Act 2007 and other enabling Acts and International Maritime Organisation (IMO) instruments.

It should be noted that Nigeria is party to the Nairobi International Convention on the Removal of Wrecks (Nairobi Convention 2007). The Convention is a treaty of the IMO with the purpose of prompt and effective removal of Shipwrecks located in the parties’ territorial waters including its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) that may be hazardous to navigation or environment. The convention gives States authority to remove wrecks and in Nigeria’s case NIMASA is the receiver of wrecks.

All abandoned Vessels littering the waterways and the shoreline of the country are affected by this directive.

You will recall that the management of NIMASA has constantly expressed the agency’s commitment to ensuring a safer waterway for Nigerian maritime stakeholders to conduct their businesses.

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