As global world trade protectionism is on the rise, European shipowners have called for a strong EU…
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Panama to ratify Hong Kong Convention on ship recycling
In a boost for the hopes of entry into force of the Hong Kong Convention on…
APM Terminals to provide container weighing services at Apapa, Onne
In accordance with the International Maritime Organisation’s Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) convention, APM Terminals…
Container crushes 3 to death in Lagos
A truck conveying 40-feet container lost control and crushed a commercial bus killing three persons and…
Containership pays almost $1m to cross Panama Canal
With the opening of the Panama Canal expansion in June, it was to be expected that…
Norwegian firm wants to build fish farm inside cargo ship
The world’s biggest Atlantic salmon producer wants to start farming fish inside a ship rather than…
Customs generates N18.6b at Lagos airport
The Murtala Mohammad International Airport (MMIA) Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) in Ikeja, Lagos…
DPR, PPMC, PPPRA join PENGASSAN to down tool
Sequel to the memo to all chairmen and secretaries in the four zones and branches on…
NIMASA disowns scholarship, employment scheme
The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has dismissed as fraudulent an online platform purporting…
Rotterdam unions, employers reach deal on job security
Dutch dockers’ unions FNV Havens and CNV Vakmensen concluded an agreement with the Rotterdam Port Authority…
Drewry: No respite for multipurpose fleet until 2018
The demand outlook for the multipurpose vessel (MPV) fleet has not improved since the first quarter…
Families demand action as seamen spend 1,000 days in detention in India
The families of a crew of 35 British pirate hunters locked up in India – including…