WAF Shipping Focus: Week 10
- Agwe Logistics Solutions
- Mar 11, 2024
- 3 min read
The Comptroller-General of Customs (CGC), Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, marked 1 March 2024, as a pivotal moment for his administration, heralding an era of digital transformation within the Service. Addressing attendees at the 2-day NCS 2024 ICT— Modernization Management Retreat in Abuja, CGC Bashir Adewale reiterated his commitment to leveraging technology to streamline customs operations. He emphasized the importance of engaging stakeholders to ensure the seamless execution of this ambitious project.
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The Nigerian Government through its Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the economy has directed the management of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, to allow importers of vehicles not properly imported a grace period of 90 days to regularise their trade documents and clear their vehicles. In a statement, the agency’s Spokesman, Mr. Maiwada Abdullahi, a Chief Superintendent of Customs said that the initiative applies solely to vehicles imported into Nigeria where the requisite customs duty has not been fulfilled or vehicles detained due to undervaluation.
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In a landmark move set to reshape the landscape of the mining and shipping industries in West Africa, COSCO SHIPPING BULK CO., LTD, CTC Mining (SL) LIMITED, and BAOMETAL MINERALS INTERNATIONAL TRADE LTD have announced their partnership in the ambitious CTC Port LokoPort Project. This tripartite agreement marks a significant milestone in the development of mineral resources and infrastructure in Sierra Leone and beyond. COSCO SHIPPING BULK CO., LTD, recognized as China’s largest state-owned shipping enterprise, boasts the world’s most extensive owned fleet for dry bulk shipping.
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The President of the Nigerian Licensed Ship Chandlers Association, Dr Martins Enebeli, has said the country loses $15 billion on ship chandling and allied services yearly due to harsh operating environment, inadequate access to capital, activities of government agencies and other bureaucratic processes making it difficult for Nigerian ship chandlers to compete with the foreign counterparts. Enebeli said the ship chandling practice is regulated via the Customs and Excise Management Act (CEMA) Section 74 as w ell as the Nigerian content law that has 95 per cent local participation and the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency
(NIMASA) Act Act.
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The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency NIMASA signed a Memorandum of Understanding MoU with Sternula Denmark on full scale Very High Frequency (VHF) Data Exchange System ( space capabilities between
the Agency and Sternula. The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA Dr Bashir Jamoh, OFR, who signed on behalf of the Agency noted that the international partnership to enhance
vessel to vessel/ land communication in Nigeria will not only enhance safety and security of navigation in Nigerian waters, but also improve productivity of seafarers.
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The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has announced a $1 billion reconstruction plan for Tincan Island, Apapa, Rivers, Onne, Warri, and Calabar port complexes. The NPA also allocated funds for similar reconstruction as part of the new port development plan for the Badagry deep seaport, Snake Island, Burutu, and Ondo deep seaports. The plans were discloseddisclosed0 in a document titled 'Consolidation of Superior Performance at the Nigerian Ports Authority 2023 A
Synopsis of the Authority’s Performance Improvement 2022 2023’
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