A Celestyal cruise ship was involved in a collision with a tanker carrying flammable naphtha early…
Author: Ships & Ports
Panama backs Korea’s Lim Ki-Tack for IMO top post
Panama’s Minister of Maritime Affairs and Administrator of the Panama Maritime Authority (AMP) Jorge Barakat in…
Captain sentenced to six months in prison for 2005 barge explosion
An Illinois man who was captain of a petroleum barge that exploded in a Chicago canal…
Costa Concordia captain to release book about 2012 disaster
Francesco Schettino, the former captain of the Coast Concordia, has written about the 2012 disaster in…
Do you think the creation of another taskforce by the Lagos State Government will solve the traffic problem in Apapa?
Task force will not solve the problem we have on the access roads. Taskforce will only…
FG appoints Ladan, Director of DPR
The Federal Government has appointed Mordecai Danteni Baba Ladan, as the Director of the Department of…
Apapa gridlock, the product of two evils
Stakeholders in Nigeria’s maritime sector have blamed the unending traffic gridlock in Apapa, location of the…
Drowning doesn’t look like drowning
The new captain jumped from the cockpit, fully dressed, and sprinted through the water. A former…
Government should return the ban on the importation of textile products
The Federal Government last week lifted the ban on the importation of textile materials into the…
Still on the perennial Apapa gridlock
The current traffic gridlock strangling Apapa, the busiest port area in Nigeria is a serious threat…
MAN Oron cadets groan over 100 percent hike in their tuition fees
The Maritime Academy of Nigeria (MAN) Oron has doubled the tuition fees payable by its cadets, SHIPS…
Haastrup tasks women on leadership roles in transport sector
Women in the transport and logistics profession have been asked to support each other to take…