China tightens port measures due to Zika virus

Chinese quarantine authorities now require mosquito eradication certificates from vessels arriving from countries with reported Zika…

Obama administration makes u-turn on Atlantic drilling

The Obama administration reversed course on Tuesday on a proposal to open the southeastern Atlantic coast…

DP World’s profit up 30.7% in 2015

Dubai-based port operator DP World closed the 2015 financial year with a reported revenue growth of 16.3% and adjusted…

Buhari names LADOL one of the most strategic investors in Nigeria

President Muhammadu Buhari has identified the unique contribution of the Lagos Deep offshore Logistics base (LADOL)…

Navy floods Niger Delta waterways with warships

The Nigerian Navy, in a three-day operation, paraded all its gunboats, warships and other movable arsenals…

NNS Beecroft arrests 11 stowaways

The Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) BEECROFT on Wednesday in Lagos said it had arrested an impersonator…

Dealers of substandard products risk 10 years in jail

The Federal Government has empowered Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) to jail dealers in substandard products…

SON gets merit certificate from global Customs body

On recognition of its exceptional service to the International Customs community, the World Customs Organisation (WCO)…

Moody’s changes outlook on global shipping sector to negative

Moody’s Investors Service has switched its outlook on the global shipping sector to negative as it expects…

Diplomatic row brews as Argentina sinks Chinese fishing vessel

Argentina’s coast guard has sunk a Chinese trawler that was fishing illegally within its territorial waters,…

Shipping lines announce more service cuts idle containership fleet hits record level

Idled global container capacity has reached a record high of 1.57m teu, according to the latest…

German shipping companies plead guilty to oil pollution

The German shipping companies Briese Schiffahrts GmbH & Co. KG and Briese Schiffahrts GmbH & Co.…