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The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside has said that Search and Rescue (SAR) operation is a collective responsibility in the West and Central Africa Region and the entire global maritime scene. Dr. Peterside was speaking during the opening ceremony of the 2nd Technical Session of the Regional Maritime Rescue and Co-ordination Centre (RMRCC), comprising of the West and Central Africa Sub-Region, that held in Lagos, Nigeria recently. The DG who was represented by the Head, Maritime Safety and Seafarers Standards Department of the Agency, Engr. Femowei Abel reiterated the Agency’s commitment…

…Seeks support of classification societies The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside has reiterated Nigeria’s commitment to continue to set high standards for vessels and oil platforms operating within Nigeria’s territorial waters in line with the Safety of Life at Sea Convention (SOLAS ’74). Dr. Peterside said this during an engagement he had with officials of the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) Asia Pacific region led by the President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) Mr. Derek Novak in Singapore. The NIMASA DG emphasized that Nigeria was not and cannot be a dumping…

The Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON) has announced its willingness to reopen the Electronic Provision Clearance Certificate (EPCC) shut down in March this by the agency starting from the 25th of April, 2016. The Acting Director-General of SON, Dr. John Angya who made this disclosure Tuesday at a Maritime Stakeholders Awareness Programme in Lagos said the reopening was in fulfillment of his earlier promise to those who came to make representations in his office following the closure of the platform in March that they would review the closure. Angya disclosed that having reviewed the closure alongside his management, the agency…

The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) and the Maritime and Ports Authority of Singapore have held a bilateral meeting to seek areas of collaboration between the two maritime regulators at the sidelines of the Maritime Regulators’ Forum holding in Singapore. The Director General of NIMASA, Dr. Dakuku Peterside met with his counterpart at the Maritime and Ports Authority (MPA) of Singapore, Mr. Andrew Tan where they pledged to collaborate for the benefit of both countries. Dr. Peterside who told Mr. Tan that Nigeria has huge maritime potentials that have remained untapped also called on Singapore investors to take…

Dr. Dakuku Peterside, the Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has said that tackling rising cases of piracy in the Gulf of Guinea requires multi stakeholder approach. Speaking to journalists at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja on his way to Singapore, Peterside said that a legal framework that prescribes stiffer sanctions, a more vigorous and vigilant military led patrol and better intelligence gathering network would help but cannot be all the solution to tackling sea piracy. The NIMASA DG who noted that the activities of pirates stifle shipping and by extension commerce which was…

Contrary to the stand of the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) which opposed the proposed proscription of the Direct Trader Input (DTI) Cafes by the end of this month by the Nigeria Customs Service, the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) has expressed happiness over the development saying that it would go a long way in sanitizing the system. The National Publicity Secretary (NPS) of ANLCA, Dr. Kayode Farinto who made the association’s position known in a press release he issued in Lagos recently while describing the development as a welcomed one added that the move…

…Calls for upgrade of Alaba International Market to Technical Institute The Shippers’ Association Lagos State (SALS) President, Rev Dr. Jonathan Nicol over the weekend bagged the Frontline Media International Transparency Award alongside other distinguished Nigerians for his role in facilitating cargo inflow into the country and pushing for friendly import policies for shippers in Nigeria. The Award which was preceded by a lecture titled,” Reviving Nigeria’s Ailing Economy: Unlocking the Idle potentials in the Shipping Sector”, delivered by the President, Shipowners Association of Nigeria (SOAN), Engr. Greg Ogbeifun was to mark the 12th Anniversary of the medium. Speaking at the…

The Federal Operations Unit (FOU) of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Zone ‘A’, Ikeja Lagos has intercepted various contraband items ranging from imported frozen poultry products, foreign parboiled rice, vehicles, vegetable oil, trucks of unprocessed teak woods and other general merchandise recently. The Command’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Mr. Uche Ejesieme in a statement issued in Lagos on Friday said that the disclosure was made by the Controller Federal Operations Unit Zone ‘A’, Comptroller Umar Mohammed Dahiru while on inspection tour of the warehouse with senior officers in the Unit for on the spot assessment of the latest seizures recorded by…

The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside has said there is need to strengthen the strategic partnership between Nigeria and the Republic of Korea in the maritime industry, as the two countries stand to derive mutual benefits from such relationship. This disclosure was made during a courtesy visit by the Korean Consul General to Nigeria, Mr. Lee Younghoan to the Agency. While recognising the strategic position of Korea as a great ship building nation, he appealed to the Consul General on the need for qualified Nigerian seafarers to be placed onboard Korean…

The Nigerian Shipowners Association (NISA) has questioned the continued collection of the sea protection levy from ships operating on the Nigerian waters by the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA). This came on the heels of increasing piracy attacks on ships passing through the Gulf of Guinea by Nigerian pirates. The President of NISA, Alhaji Aminu Umar who disclosed this in a chat with newsmen in Lagos said that the continued collection of the levy was not justifiable more so as they face those attacks regularly in the Gulf of Guinea. Umar who described the situation as unfortunate especially…