Ajani hails Shippers Council’s ease of doing business drive
The newly-appointed Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Transportation, Dr. Magdalene Ajani today in Abuja commended the Nigerian Shippers Council for its promotion of the establishment of Vehicle Transit Areas (VTA) amongst other initiatives aimed at trade facilitation to boost…
Importers besiege shippers’ council with demurrage complaints
Nigerian Shippers’ Council has been inundated with complaints against shipping companies/agencies, seaport terminal operators and off-dock terminals on the arbitrary levy of container demurrage, storage and transfer charges on innocent consignees, for transportation of cargoes to off-dock terminals unilaterally initiated…
FG, CRCC to seal deal on development of Ibadan Dry Port scheme
Strong indication has emerged suggesting that the negotiation meeting between the Federal Government and CRCC, the preferred bidders for the construction of the Ibadan Inland Dry Port may be sealed very soon. Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) the guarantor to the…
Shippers’ Council, NIMASA forge rare synergy to tame overlapping functions
Leading agencies under the Federal Ministry of Transportation have agreed on modalities for handling areas of overlap in their responsibilities. Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Bashir Jamoh, disclosed this in Lagos after a meeting…
Shippers’ Council boss, Bello canvasses total port digitisation
Executive Secretary, Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC), Hassan Bello, has once again, called for full digitisation of Nigeria seaports, insisting that the reform will ensure efficiency, competitiveness and reduce corruption at Seaports.COVID-19 Speaking in Lagos on Monday during a courtesy visit…
Single window project, scanners to be deployed before end of 2020
All is set for the Nigerian Shippers’ Council’s call for operationalisation of the National Single Window and deployment of scanners at the nation’s seaports appears to be on a fast track. Indications that this is the case emerged when the…
Full digitization of Nigeria ports begins March 2021—Bello, NSC Ex Sec
The ongoing efforts of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC), under the Executive Secretaryship of Barr Hassan Bello to fully digitize operations at the Nigerian seaports will come to fruition by March 2021. Speaking on a Radio Nigeria Current Affairs Programme…
Maritime stakeholders’, FG seek better SOP for clearing charitable cargoes at ports
Rising from a one-day workshop on ‘Stakeholders’ Consultation on Ease of Shipping and Clearing of Charitable Items into Nigeria’, participants have called for an error-free Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) to avoid either security lapses or undue delays that give rise…
NSC opens bids, to announce Obollo-Afor Truck Park concessionaire today
As part of ongoing remodelling of heavy-duty truck activities across the federation with a view to limiting instances of traffic blockages and wrong parking on highways, concessionaire of Obollo-Afor Truck Transit Park (TTP) in Enugu State will be unveiled today….
NSC hands over 10 hectares of land to Tin-Smelting plant in Jos
As part of ongoing drive to deepen diversification of the economy by promoting non-oil sector, the Nigerian Shippers Council (NSC) has sealed an agreement for the transfer of over 10 hectares of land behind Heipang Jos Inland Container Depot, Jos,…
