Author: Saint Augustine

The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC), Barr. Hassan Bello has said that an arrangement for the re-establishment of the national carrier for the country has reached the stage where financial involvement will take the centre stage. Speaking Exclusively to Primetime Reporters in Lagos recently, Bello hinted that the council had had a meeting with the African Export/Import (AfriEXIM) Bank which he said was interested in the project adding that they were having meeting with the Honourable Minister of Petroleum Resources on carriage so as to see that Nigeria had a national carrier. “But it is not a…

In a bid to promote trade, the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and the Nigerian Customs Service ( NCS) are collaborating to introduce the much-awaited Single Window (SW) platform at the ports. The two agencies, the Managing Director of NPA, Ms Hadiza Balla Usman said, have embarked on the establishment of SW through an intense automation and introduction of Standard Operating Procedure ( SOP) at ports. Ms Usman said the adoption of SW would make Nigeria’s ports competitive in the international trade network and boost the trade facilitation programme of the government. Speaking during her courtesy visit to the Comptroller General…

The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside has called on Maritime stakeholders to make input in the ongoing Port Reform Agenda of the present administration in other to reposition the maritime industry for greater efficiency. Peterside made this call recently in Lagos when he played host to a delegation of the Editorial Board of the Nation Newspaper led by its Chairman, Mr. Sam Omatseye and the Chief strategist of Epsilon Limited, Mr. Amechi Chukwujama who came to brief him on preparation for a proposed port reforms conference in conjunction with the Federal…

The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Dr. Dakuku Peterside has urged professional bodies in the country to support Government programmes aimed at revamping the nation’s economy. This charge was given when members of the Lagos State Chapter of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) led by its Chairman Mr. Olusegun McMedal paid a courtesy call on him at the Agency’s headquarters. Dr. Dakuku Peterside who was represented by the Executive Director Operations, Engr. Rotimi Fashakin said that at this trying times when the nation was diversifying its resources towards ensuring a virile economy,…

Stakeholders at the nation’s maritime sector had been speaking on their expectations from the federal government as it affects the maritime sector of the economy. Respondents who aired their views in an interview with our correspondent in Lagos said they expect so much from the government moreso as the year 2016 could be described as a year of many woes for the practitioners in the industry. According to the Chairman, Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA), PTML Chapter, Elder Samuel Obe urged the federal government to take a critical look at the nation’s maritime sector so as to review…

The Chairman, Road Transport Employers’ Association (RTEAN), Tincan Island Chapter, Alhaji Isiaka Olalere has hailed the Nigerian Shippers’ Council over its planned consolidation of the trucking companies operating in the nation’s maritime industry. Olaelere who was reacting to a statement credited to the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) also appreciated the move by the Council in collaboration with the World Bank to erect electronic gate at the nation’s seaports so as to operate a call up system for the truckers operating at the ports. He recalled that the government had earlier proposed the consolidation of trucking companies…

The Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) has commissioned a law firm to study all the existing laws that had to do with transportation with the sole aim of codifying a legal regime to guide the operation of inland transport in the country. The Executive Secretary of the Council, Barr. Hassan Bello who disclosed this in a chat with Primetime Reporters in Lagos decried the absence of a legal framework to guide the operation of inland transportation in the country. Bello hinted that the council would be extremely practical this year in its bid to realize a lot of things in the…

…Says action will boost port operation The Chairman, Road Transport Employers’ Association of Nigeria (RTEAN), Tincan Island Chapter, Alhaji Isiaka Olalere has hail the Federal Government for its courage in banning the importation of vehicles through the land borders across the country describing it as a right step in the right direction. Olalere who made this known in a chat with our correspondent in Lagos said the development would boost the operation of the ports since those vehicles would now have to come through the nation’s seaport. He posited that since those vehicles come in 40 feet containers while some…

The Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) has identified inconsistencies in policy formulation by the government as the major problem militating against the operations of the terminal operators and shipping companies operating in the country. The Executive Secretary of the NSC, Mr. Hassan Bello who made this known in a chat with a team from Primetime Reporters who paid him a courtesy visit at his office in Lagos hinted that they had told the government in no small measures that one don’t bring in inconsistencies when one had investors as investors like predictability and certainty. According to him,” But the terminal operators,…

A Federal High Court in Lagos presided over by Justice Hassan today awarded a cost of N20, 000 against Tincan Island Container Terminal (TICT) for failing to put up appearance in court to move the application it filed in a case brought against it by Glory Shipping Agency and 3 others. Glory Shipping Agency and 3 others had earlier taken TICT to court over what they called unfair and wrongful charge of demurrage on storage over a fault that was totally TICT’s having delayed transfer of their consignments from TICT to Bollore off dock terminal in Lagos. When the case…