Editor's Pick Disquiet as Nigeria’s river ports remain idle In Nigeria, none of the four river ports is functional despite government spending a whooping N13.65billion to resuscitate them. ABIOLA Seun writes. Unlike other ... By maritimemagDecember 5, 20180
Editor's Pick Promoting non-oil export trade for economic prosperity. It is undisputable fact that the economic prosperity of a nation depends on the level of its export trade.A nation earns more money ... By maritimemagDecember 3, 20180
Cover Maritime sector needs to be cleaned up to attract investors who will drive National Carrier Project – Hassan Bello Barrister Hassan Bello, the indefatigable Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council, is a very busy man. He sits atop an agency which not ... By maritimemagDecember 2, 20180
Editor's Pick The Unresolved Mystery of CVFF The Cabotage Vessel Financing Funds(CVFF), an offshoot of the Cabotage law, is an interventionist programme of the Federal Government to empower indigenous ship ... By maritimemagNovember 27, 20180
Editor's Pick Nigeria Customs: Time to cleanse the Augean Stable Nigeria Customs Service has a reputation for been a cesspool of corruption; a reputation earned and has stuck like a leech over ... By maritimemagNovember 20, 20180
Analysis Examining Nigeria’s Cumbersome Clearing Process on Nigerian Economy Cumbersome clearing process at the Nigerian seaports contributed to Nigeria ranking on ease of doing business. ABIOLA Seun writes | When the Ag President, Prof. Yemi ... By maritimemagNovember 15, 20180
Editor's Pick Towards Effective and Competent CRFFN Board On November 1, 2018, the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, inaugurated the third governing Council of the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN), This ... By maritimemagNovember 14, 20180
Editor's Pick Many non-professionals are in freight forwarding ready to pick anything -CRFFN Prince Adeyinka Bakare is a member of the recently inaugurated Governing Council of the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in ... By maritimemagNovember 13, 20180
Editor's Pick Need for safe and secured water transportation in Nigeria Nigeria has 853 km long of coastline which runs through seven littoral southern states of Lagos, Ondo, Delta, Balyesa, Rivers, Cross Rivers and ... By maritimemagNovember 7, 20180
Editor's Pick MAN Oron as metaphor for neglect of manpower development in maritime industry During this year’s World Maritime Day on September 27, 2018, Commodore Duja Effedua (Rtd), the Rector of Maritime Academy of Nigeria (MAN) Oron, ... By maritimemagOctober 30, 20180
Editor's Pick Customs’ hard revenue drive on the altar of trade facilitation Statutorily, the major functions of the Nigeria Customs Service are revenue generation, trade facilitation and anti-smuggling. However, modern economic realities have imposed addition ... By maritimemagOctober 22, 20180
Editor's Pick Empowering Shippers’ Council to curb impunity of service providers Last week, CMA-CGM, one of the foreign shipping companies in the country caused a stir in the shipping industry when it announced that ... By maritimemagOctober 18, 20180
Editor's Pick Nigerian Cadets and Seatime Experience In 2008, the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) under its then Director-General, Dr Ade Dosunmu, conceived an interventionist programme to bridge the gap ... By maritimemagOctober 10, 20180
Editor's Pick Nigeria maritime industry: Still a toddler at 58 It is an irony of fate that the Nigerian maritime sector which predated the Nigeria nation state, that clocks 58 years today, ... By maritimemagOctober 6, 20180
Cover ACCIDENT VEHICLES IMPORTED TO BEAT TARIFF—Compt Musa Abdullahi Comptroller Musa Baba Abdullahi, the Area Controller of the Tin Can Island Command of the Nigeria Customs Service in this interview with one ... By maritimemagSeptember 30, 20180
Editor's Pick Overtime Cargo: Need for concessionary release to avoid Port Congestion Overtime cargos as well as those out rightly abandoned by their owners have increasingly posed challenges to both the terminal operators and government ... By maritimemagSeptember 24, 20180
