Amsterdam ports report 1.3% transhipment growth, exports up 25%

North Sea Canal ports of Amsterdam, Ijmunden, Beverwijk and Zaanstad have recorded 1.3% year-on-year growth in…

MOL second to settle car carrier price-fixing lawsuit

Japanese shipping giant Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, also known as MOL, has settled a major class-action antitrust…

Port of Aden reopens for business

The port of Aden has opened after being shut down for four months due to armed clashes…

NPA comeback MD, Habib Abdullahi credits return to ‘will of God’

The reinstated Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Mallam Habib Abdullahi has officially taken…

Shippers decry high taxes, Customs duty

The Shippers’ Association Lagos State (SALS) yesterday said shippers and business owners paid over five trillion…

Dikko hands over to Atte behind closed door

  As rightly predicted by SHIPS & PORTS DAILY yesterday, former Customs Comptroller-General Dikko Inde Abdullahi has formally…

Omonibeke becomes NSE Fellow

The Executive Director, Marine and Operations of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Engineer David Omonibeke has recently…

Group accuses Customs of culpability in rice duty evasion

Barely 24 hours after Dikko Abdulahi resigned as Comptroller-General of Customs, a group known as the…

December terminal date for N’Delta amnesty not realistic – IYC

The umbrella body for Ijaw youths, Ijaw Youth Council Worldwide, has said the December terminal date…

Iran Navy foils pirate attack on vessel in Gulf of Aden

The Iranian Navy has successfully thwarted a pirate attack on a merchant vessel in the Gulf…

Daewoo shipbuilding executives offer to resign after record loss

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. said 13 executives and advisers have offered to resign as…

Tianjin explosion highlights accumulation risk growth, say marine insurers

The International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI) has said the recent explosion at Tianjin highlights some…