NIMASA: Providing leadership in difficult times
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By Edward Osagie
Just as Life’s roughest storms prove the strength of our anchors, so it is with the Nigerian maritime sector as the challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic proved to test the character of its managers.
When President Muhammadu Buhari appointed the new leadership at the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA in March 2020, the Dr Bashir Jamoh led team had barely taken over the mantle of leadership when the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. And the lockdown started.
In fact, the new leadership at NIMASA was less than two weeks in office when the Presidential task force declared a total lockdown in Nigeria. Thanks to the fact that President Buhari had appointed a technocrat in the person of Dr Jamoh with about three decades of experience to steer the affairs at NIMASA. This perhaps explains why the NIMASA Management was able to hit the ground running with
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Container chaos as COVID, industrial action, weather cause perfect storm for import and export delays
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Fish feed producer BioMar Australia is among the local businesses struggling to get key ingredients amid international shipping delays.
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A perfect storm of events is causing big delays to international shipping and pushing up the costs to get goods in and out of Australia.
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Companies are paying more to import and export goods
The delays are causing container shortages across the shipping industry internationally
The pandemic caused havoc to the flow of goods across the globe, with shutdowns, booming ecommerce, the collapse of air travel, industrial action and a shipping container shortage leading to higher freight prices and delays.
By Godwin Oritse
THE Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, National Joint Industrial Council, NJIC, alongside other stakeholders in the maritime labour industry have commenced negotiations of the increment of dockworkers’ wages and entitlements.
Vanguard Maritime Report learnt that series of meetings have been held before as the negotiation on the issue was still ongoing at the time of filling this report.
Confirming the development, Comrade Abdullahi Eroje, said that the negotiation is ongoing adding that most of the stakeholders that were supposed to meet travelled abroad and that as soon as they are back, the negotiations will continue.
Eroje also said that the moment all the parties involved in the negotiation are around another meeting will be called.
Members of the Nigerian Merchant Navy Officers and Water Transport Senior Staff Association (NMNOWTSSA) have applauded its National President, Bob Yousou and executives for the Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA) for improved welfare packages that ensure Nigerian Seafarers are paid in line with the international best practice.
The union stated this while taking stock of achievements of the present executives led by Yousou as they clocked one year in office.
The members also applauded the leadership for engaging employers of labour on increment of workers’ salaries and securing the union’s membership in International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) for effective representation.