WAF Shipping Focus: Week 18
- Agwe Logistics Solutions
- May 2
- 3 min read
Nigeria’s maritime tourism industry holds immense potential for economic growth, diversification, and global competitiveness. With its extensive coastline, natural endowments, and growing economy, Nigeria can tap into the vast potential of its maritime sector and become a major player in the global maritime tourism industry, valued at over $6.45 trillion. Despite its potential, Nigeria’s maritime tourism industry is underdeveloped, ranking among the lowest in the
marine tourism index. The sector faces challenges such as lack of infrastructure, inconsistent policies, and security concerns. To overcome these challenges, Nigeria needs to invest in modern ports, marinas, and recreational facilities, promote public-private partnerships, enhance security, develop coastal communities, and
foster multi-sectoral collaboration.
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Nigeria has endorsed the amendments to 8 Codes of the Maritime Labour Convention, MLC, 2006. The amendments include the codes related to the protection of seafarers against discrimination, identification of seafarers as key workers, enhanced access to shore based welfare for seafarers, and the code on shipboard violence, harassment and bullying, accommodation and recreational
facilities onboard. The Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola, CON, who led Nigeria’s delegation to the 5th International Labour Organisation, ILO, special Tripartite Committee meeting in Geneva Switzerland, emphasized Nigeria’s commitment to the welfare, rights, and protection of seafarers.
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Precisely on February 28, 2021, the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) introduced what can be described as the game–changer for chaotic Apapa traffic. By the explanations that were given by the NPA, an electronic call-up system would be deployed to direct truck movement into Lagos ports of Tin Can and Apapa. The NPA had rested the implementation on five pillars, which were supposed to
hold the operations of the electronic call up via the eto app. According to the agency, trucks must be called upon using the Eto electronic call-up system before they could gain access into the ports. Therefore, all trucks and their owners are expected to download the Eto App and sign-up in order to become part of the
new system.
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The President of African Shipowners Association (ASA), Captain Ladi Olubowale, has stated that the Shipowners who are members of the association are fully ready for the disbursement of the Cabotage Vessels Finance Fund (CVFF), even as he boasts that the shipowners know how to generate the needed cargoes, both wet and dry. He said that disbursing the CVFF to Nigerian shipowners at a single digit
interest rate will create abundant growth opportunities, boost capacity building, local content development and develop Nigeria as a maritime nation in Africa. Captain Ladi Olubowale, who is also the Managing Director of Seamate Maritime Integrated Services Limited, described the involvement of Nigerian banks in the disbursement by the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) is a perfect strategy that will bring about transparency and elimination of dubious borrowers.
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The Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Isiaka Oyetola has disclosed the high-stakes struggle that led to the resolution of the long-standing Apapa gridlock, a crisis that crippled port operations and hindered economic activity in Nigeria’s most critical maritime corridor for over two decades. Addressing
members of Study Group 4, Senior Executive Course 47 of the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) during their study tour to the Ministry, Oyetola narrated how he had to confront entrenched interests and dismantle powerful syndicates that had profited from the dysfunction. “The Apapa gridlock wasn’t
natural — it was engineered. There were people who built careers and empires on the dysfunction of that corridor. Breaking that cycle meant taking on forces who didn’t want change,” he said.
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As Nigeria joined the rest of the world to mark International Workers’ Day, the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola, has assured maritime workers of the Federal Government’s unwavering commitment to their welfare, rights, and security. In a statement issued yesterday by his Media and Communications Adviser, Dr Bolaji Akinola, Oyetola praised the resilience and
dedication of maritime professionals, noting that they are indispensable to the country’s economic engine. He said: “Today, I join millions of Nigerians to salute the unwavering spirit and industriousness of our maritime workers, from seafarers and dockworkers to port administrators and regulators. Your efforts are the bedrock of our nation’s gateway to trade and economic prosperity.”
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