Author: Saint Augustine

The Nigeria Merchant Navy Officers and Water Transport Senior Staff Association (NMNOWTSSA) on Tuesday, described freight forwarding associations yearning for the resignation of heads of some maritime agencies over the recent barge accident that occurred within Lagos Pilotage District as biased , unprofessional and counterproductive. Recall that some freight forwarding groups in the maritime industry on Monday demanded the immediate resignation of the heads of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), the Nigerian Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) and the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) over the accident on the waterways. The groups also demanded that the report of the investigation…

The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) Nigeria has said that the representatives of the five accredited freight forwarding associations serving as members in the Governing Council of the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) should be blamed for the resistance shown by the freight forwarders in the ongoing collection of the Practitioners Operating Fee (POF) by the CRFFN. The National Executive Director, CILT Nigeria, Mr. Paul Ndibe who made this submission in an interview with our correspondent in Lagos recalled that on the board of CRFFN, there were lots of representatives of the freight…

SIFAX Logistics Company Limited, one of SIFAX Group’s subsidiaries whose business offerings include haulage, clearing and forwarding, groupage and shipping is set to increase its operational capacity through the injection of 25 new trucks to boost its operations. According to Adewale Adetayo, General Manager, Haulage, there is a need to make the investment in order to improve capacity to meet the expectations of clients that are growing by the day. He said: “Last year, we added 25 trucks to bring the total number in our fleet to 100. Despite this, we still couldn’t meet the increasing demands of our customers.…

…Wants full compensation for cargo owners Following the recent barge accident that occurred in Lagos as a result of the identified regulatory negligence and lapses on the part of the government agencies saddled with licensing, regulation and supervision of barge operation in the country, stakeholder groups today demanded the immediate resignation of the heads of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), the Nigerian Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) and the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA). The groups which made this demand in a press conference in Lagos on Wednesday also demanded that the report of the investigation undertaken by NIMASA over…

…Vows to work to sustain the system              A chieftain of the National Association of Road Transport Owners (NARTO), Alhaji Abdullahi Inuwa Mohammed has blamed the persistent traffic along the Tincan – Mile 2 road even with the introduction of the electronic call up system on the activities of the construction company handling the reconstruction of the road. Mohammed who made this observation in an interview with our correspondent in Lagos on Friday said that the system has recorded a tremendous success in Apapa whereas Tincan island road has refused to embrace the sweeping change even as he described the…

Following the recent barge accident in Lagos resulting into loss of goods worth millions of naira, the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) has called for the responsibility to register barges that will come to the terminals to load goods to be entrusted to the terminal operators. This, the institute said would place the responsibility on the terminal operators on event of any accident and not necessarily the barge owner or the operator. The National Executive Director, CILT, Nigeria, Mr. Paul Ndibe who spoke in an interview with our correspondent in Lagos on Friday also believed that entrusting the…

Contrary to the expectations of many, the Chairman of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA), Tincan Island Port chapter, Mr. Ojo Peter Akintoye has said that he will not violate any law of the land or use any means that could lead to the loss of lives and properties to recover the chapter secretariat currently being occupy by another faction in the association. Akintoye who made this revelation in a chat with newsmen in Lagos on Thursday stated that the secretariat belonged to ANLCA and not his personal property adding that “if the association believed that that is…

…Says POF should be the last resort A chieftain of the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF), Dr. Fred Ajuzie has said that the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) is more interested in collecting the Practitioners Operating Fee (POF) rather than in professionalizing the freight forwarders to be at their best in their practice. Ajuzies who made this declaration in an interview with Primetime Reporters in Lagos on Thursday observed that what the Council was after was the POF saying that “there are no plans to make freight forwarders what they should be…

…Thanks Lagos Governor, Sanwo-Olu Two weeks after the introduction of Eto, the electronic truck call-app, the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has said that the operations have justified the conviction that it has finally found the solution to the problem of truck congestion in the access roads into the Lagos Port Complex and the Tin Can Island Ports. The NPA in a statement issued in Lagos on Friday by the Assistant General Manager, Corporate and Strategic Communications, NPA, Mallam Ibrahim Nasiru stated that although, they had experienced teething problems as would be expected of innovations like this, the Authority was pleased…

The Federal Government is currently losing N500 million annually to syndicate specialising in stealing export consignments. The activity of the syndicate is also said to be undermining the current government’s efforts of economic diversification away from oil export. The first incident is that of Global Enterprise, which was said to have brought his consignment intact to the port but between the time the goods arrived at the port and when it was loaded on board the vessel, a sizeable quantity has been stolen. The second is a consignment of four units of 20 feet containers of Sesame Seed that was…