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Factors militating against the efficiency and effectiveness of Nigerian seaports are port cost, archaic clearing process and lack of automation. These factors

As the country prepares for a change in guard on May 29, stakeholders in the maritime industry have intensified calls for the development of the sector, which is struggling with challenges left unattended to by previous administrations.

Stakeholders have called for the replication of Ghana’s Single Window System and its electronic data interchange platform called Trade-Net in Nigeria.

Stakeholders bemoan lack of due process in suspension of NPA MD Stakeholders bemoan lack of due process in suspension of NPA MD Share Stakeholders in the nation’s maritime sector have bemoaned the lack of due process by the Federal Government over the suspension of the embattled Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Ms Hadiza Bala Usman. Speaking with maritime journalists, on Wednesday, in Lagos, the immediate past President of Women in International Shipping and Trading A...

Uneasy calm has settled in the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) following the President’s removal of Hadiza Bala Usman as the Managing Director for no stated reason. The Guardian gathered that the circumstances surrounding the removal of Usman was not unconnected to the power play exhibited by some top government officials who are interested in some contracts in the NPA. Some believe that she has stepped on toes for cancelling some alleged fraudulent contracts such as the Secure Anchorage Area ...

Uneasy calm has settled in the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) following the President’s removal of Hadiza Bala Usman as the Managing Director for no stated reason. The Guardian gathered that the circumstances surrounding the removal of Usman was not unconnected to the power play exhibited by some top government officials who are interested in some contracts in the NPA. Some believe that she has stepped on toes for cancelling some alleged fraudulent contracts such as the Secure Anchorage Area ...

• Freight Forwarders blame stoppage of container stripping, barge operations • 44 ships expected in Lagos in December No fewer than 43 vessels laden with various goods are currently stuck in Lagos waters as congestion stalls operations at Nigeria’s busiest ports, the TinCan Island Port and Apapa Port in Lagos. The nation’s import and export dealing is, also, in shambles, as prevailing congestion at ports caused a spike in shipping costs for Nigeran-bound goods by about 600 per cent. The...