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Maritime Sector Bills: Advancing or Altered By National Assembly?
Recent developments trailing the National Transport Commission (NTC) bill and the Ports and Habours bill, have begun to fuel speculations…
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Ailing Nigerian Economy: Maritime Sector The Headway
For more than three decades, crude oil has been a major source of revenue, energy and foreign exchange for the…
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Buhari’s One Year in Office: Setting the Maritime Agenda (1)
It’s over a year since President Mohammadu Buhari’s administration began and maritime industry is one with lofty ambitions and potentials,…
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Civil Servants vs Private Port Operators
While the Minister of Transportation, Hon Rotimi Amaechi read his opening speech at the recent maritime summit organized by his…
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SOP: A Tool To Transform Port Operations In Nigeria
Nigeria’s maritime industry is characterized by numerous agencies and organizations whose services are necessary for the day to day business…
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Transport Industry: Searching For The Ideal Leadership
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. John C. Maxwell The responsibility…
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Transforming Nigeria’s Transport Sector: Experts Speak
The importance of the transport industry to the economy of any nation can never be overemphasized. The reasons are overt…
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Mrs. Shall-Holma: Qualities Of A Maritime Amazon
She is not the Minister of Maritime, actually there is none. Neither is she the Minister of Transport or the…
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Hub Port: Reality or Farce?
In West and Central Africa, the competition for hub status in the region is intensifying, nevertheless Nigeria continues to lag…
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Can Transport Costs Meet Service Efficiency In Africa?
Concerted efforts are being made by the Union of African Shippers’ Council (UASC) to bridge the wide gap between transport…
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Leadership and Politics in Nigeria’s Maritime Industry
Nigeria’s maritime industry is widely believed to have numerous untapped potentials which could make the industry the largest revenue spinner…
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Port State Control: The Need To Train PSC Officers
Since international shipping remains a highly competitive and profit driven business, merchant ships often trade outside the areas that…
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Transport Costs And Efficiency In Africa: Bridging The Gap (I)
Over the years, African countries, especially the West and Central African countries have been suffering the pains of relatively high…
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Nigerian Maritime Challenges and Opportunities: Veterans Speak
Despite the financial crisis occasioned by the persistent fall in naira and the economic quagmire following the uncertainty surrounding global…
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Is It Time For National Carrier?
Whenever the issue of establishing Nigerian national shipping line is raised there is always a consensus by stakeholders in almost…
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Freight Forwarders Vs Clearing Agents
In logistics there are often blurred lines between disciplines but there are key differences between Freight Forwarders and Customs Brokers…
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PMS And The Pump Price Dilemma
It is no longer news that the federal government of Nigeria has finally put an end to the payment of…
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CBN And Naira Undertakers
Towards the end of 2014 and February 18, 2015, two events of same outcome took place- the naira devaluations. These…
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Amaechi’s Theatre Of Explosion
The appointment of Rotimi Amaechi as the Minister of Transportation was greeted with tension and anxiety among the industry stakeholders.…
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Regional Ports: Fighting National Insecurity
When Security operatives at Malam Aminu Kano International Airport seized a plane loaded with arms bound for N’djamena, capital of…
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