Nigerian Shippers Council

Federal Ministry of Transportation (FMOT) has commenced moves to designate all inland dry ports (IDPs) as ports of origin and destination across the country. The dry ports located in hinterlands were purposely to deliver shipping…

The Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) and the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) are collaborating to provide a single-window platform that would ensure regulatory agencies at the ports complied to procedures. Mr Hassan Bello, Executive…

Nigeria is losing about $9bn annually to foreign shipowners because the country has no single vessel that is involved in international freight services, the Nigerian Shippers’ Council stated on Thursday. According to the council, Nigeria…

The Presidency has ordered the immediate clearance of the Apapa gridlock and the restoration of law and order to Apapa and its environs within 2 weeks. The directive mandates the immediate removal of all trucks from the bridges and roads…

President Muhammadu Buhari has declined assent to two bills in the transport sector. They are the National Transport Commission Bill 2018 and the Federal Roads Authority (Establishment) Bill 2018. The president’s decision came in a…

The Executive Secretary of Nigerian Shippers Council (NSC), Mr Hassan Bello, has said Nigeria lost $25 billion to foreign ship owners between 2015 and 2017. Bello disclosed this when the Nigerian Fleet Implementation Committee paid a…

Managing Director of NPA, Hadiza Bala-Usman has said that the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) would require N50 billion to complete the ongoing dredging of Calabar port. The NPA boss in paper presentation titled; Driving the Change Agenda…