Author: Saint Augustine

Port users at Onne port in Rivers State have been enveloped with uncertainty as West African Container Terminal, WACT, a subsidiary of the APM Terminals has announced an increase in its Terminal Handling Charges, THC and the Storage Charge in line with permission allegedly granted it by the Nigerian Shippers Council, NSC. This is as the National President of the Africa Association of Professional Freight Forwarders and Logistics of Nigeria, APFFLON, Otunba Frank Ogunojemite has urged the Nigerian Shippers Council to suspend the WACT tariff adjustment, which by his calculations was presently at 100 percent increment. In a notice to…

Comrade Francis Bunu was yesterday elected as the President General of the Maritime Workers’ Union of Nigeria, MWUN for the next four years in a unanimous decision at the 6th Quadrennial National Delegates Conference in Lagos. This is just the immediate past President General, Comrade Prince Adewale Adeyanju was declared the Chairman, Board of Trustees, BoT of MWUN by the new President General, Bunu. Bunu, who until his emergence yesterday as the new President General of MWUN, was the immediate past Deputy President General of the union. He was elected unopposed alongside eleven others namely: Abubakar Bello – Deputy President…

… As National Compliance Joint Taskforce of Licensed Clearing Agents is inaugurated The National President of the National Compliance Joint Taskforce of Licensed Clearing Agents, NCJTFCLA, High Chief Dr. Basil Nwolisa has said that the organization is not a political movement nor is it an institution of aggression. Nwolisa who declared this in his welcome address at the inauguration of the organization in Lagos on Friday, however, disclosed that the organization was a registered advocacy group as well as pressure group committed to promoting transparency, accountability and compliance in the clearing and forwarding industry in Nigeria. “Our main objective is…

… As Tincan Chairman, Cole renders scorecard, commits to unifying members The National President of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents, ANLCA, Mr. Emenike Nwokeoji, on Thursday, paid an official visit to the Tincan Island chapter of the association to reopen the secretariat shut down few years ago over the crisis that engulfed the association in the past and to present the newly elected executive of the chapter to the members. Speaking during the visit, Nwokeoji, while reflecting on the event of the past few years in the chapter, recalled that for a long time, members of the association…

…Moves to create platform for all freight forwarding associations The Chairman of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents, ANLCA, Tincan Island chapter, Prince Olawale Cole has assured all the freight forwarding associations operating at the Tincan Island port of an open and inclusive governance which will bring about a coordinated approach to solving the operational challenges facing their members. Cole who gave this assurance in a stakeholders’ meeting held at the ANLCA Tincan Island chapter secretariat in Lagos on Thursday, also assured that he would mobilize both the present and past leaders of the freight forwarding associations in the…

…Introduces newly elected PTML chapter executive It was a busy day on Wednesday for the National President of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents, ANLCA, Mr. Emenike Nwokeoji as he took time off to visit the Customs Area Controller of the Ports and Terminals Multiservices Limited, PTML, Comptroller Tenny Mankini Daniyan, the Managing Director of the PTML Grimaldi group, Mr. Ascanio Russo and the entire members of ANLCA PTML chapter to introduce and rally support for the newly elected PTML chapter executive. Nwokeoji who embarked on the visit with the members of the National Executive Committee, NECOM members of…

The National President of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents, ANLCA, Mr. Emenike Nwokeoji, yesterday, visited the members of the association at the PTML chapter thanking them for the opportunity given to them to serve and for peacefully selecting men and women that are going to serve them at the chapter in the next three years. Nwokeoji who was accompanied on the visit by the members of the National Executive Committee, NECOM of the association, reminded members of the association in the chapter that they were the ones who made their choice of leaders during the election and urged…

The Petroleum Products Retail Outlets Owners Association of Nigeria, PETROAN has commended the Federal Government and the management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL for successfully running the revamped Port-Harcourt Refinery for 180 days non-stop. PETROAN, in a statement signed by its National Public Relations Officer, Joseph Obele, revealed that the refinery which had been dormant for over 20 years, was revamped with a loan secured from Afreximbank and executed by Tecnimont Nigeria Limited, a subsidiary of the Maire Tecnimont Group. PETROAN also commended Tecnimont Nigeria Limited for its professionalism and expertise in delivering a world-class rehabilitation project…

… There’s nothing like scarcity of call up tickets – TTP …Blames terminals inefficiency for delays The Deputy National President of the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders, NAGAFF, Chief Afam Chukwuma has attributed the high cost of transporting cargo from the seaports in Lagos to any part of the state to scarcity of the Eto call up tickets. Speaking in a chat with Primetime Reporters in Lagos recently, Chief Chukwuma disclosed that it now cost as high as two hundred thousand naira (N200,000) to transport cargo from Apapa port to anywhere in Lagos as a result of the…

…We will sustain momentum, says NIMASA DG The United States Coast Guard has commended Nigeria, and the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, for what the Coast Guard described as considerable progress in the implementation of the International Ships and Ports Facility Security, ISPS Code. This was made public by Joe Prince Larson of the US Coast Guard who led a team from the International Port Security Programme on a Working Tour of some Terminals and Ports in Nigeria to ascertain the level of implementation of the ISPS Code across Nigerian ports facilities. The team had earlier conducted assessment…