Ships & Ports
Lagos ports at breaking points, says Gbajabiamila
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, Thursday described the two Lagos Port Complexes of Apapa and TinCan Island as “overwhelmed and attained...
Reps committee summons Customs, NNPC, CBN
An adhoc committee of the House of Representatives has summoned heads of four government agencies to appear before it on August 19. This followed the ruling of the...
Court convicts 9 oil thieves in Rivers
Justice A.T. Mohammed of the Federal High Court, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has convicted and sentenced nine oil thieves to two years imprisonment for illegal...
Gibraltar moves to free seized Iranian tanker
Gibraltar decided on Thursday to free the Iranian oil tanker Grace 1, detained off the British overseas territory six weeks ago by Royal Marines, paving the way for a...
Lagos boat mishap: 2 missing bodies recovered
The Lagos State Waterways Authority (LASWA) on Thursday said the bodies of the remaining two victims of the Tuesday boat mishap had been recovered. The incident that...
Mamora speaks on delay in Lokoja port project
The outgoing Managing Director of the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), Senator Olorunimbe Mamora, has said that the issue of litigation on the site of the...
Maersk reports ‘solid progress’ in Q2 earnings
Danish conglomerate A.P. Moller–Maersk reported “solid progress” in the second quarter of 2019 as its Ocean business witnessed continued recovery. Earnings before...
Italy says six EU states will take in migrants on Open Arms ship
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Thursday that six EU countries had agreed to take in some 150 migrants who have been blocked from docking in Italy,...
Migrant ship can enter Italy’s waters, court rules
An administrative court in Rome ruled on Wednesday that a Spanish rescue ship carrying around 150 migrants should be allowed to enter Italian territorial waters in...
Greece’s new PM seeks to make Greek flag more attractive
Greece’s newly elected government is determined to make the home flag more attractive to Greek shipowners. Prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said “the challenge is...
Plane makes emergency landing on Russian cornfield
Russians hailed a miracle on Thursday after a passenger plane carrying 233 people made an emergency landing in a cornfield on the outskirts of Moscow after striking a...
U.S. bid to seize Iranian tanker halts its release from Gibraltar
The United States applied on Thursday to seize an Iranian tanker in Gibraltar, halting its expected release at the last minute and preventing a possible swap for...
