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NSML’s training centre accredited for UK MCA courses.
Sopuruchi Onwuka NLNG Shipping and Marine Services Limited’s (NSML’s) Maritime Centre of Excellence (MCOE) has become Africa’s first to receive the highly desired accreditation from the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency (UK MCA). This historic achievement allows the MCOE to…
Sharks off Brazil coast are “high on cocaine” __Scientists
Marine biologists tested 13 Brazilian sharpnose sharks taken from the shores near Rio de Janeiro and found they tested for high levels of cocaine in their muscles and livers. The concentrations were as much as 100 times higher than previously…
NNPC bags NIMASA certification on ship, port security
Sopuruchi Onwuka The NNPC Ltd has reiterated its commitment to sustain the Company’s march towards process improvement, regulatory compliance and performance excellence. NNPC’s Executive Vice President, Business Services, Mr. Inuwa Danladi, disclosed this while speaking on the recent certification of…
NLNG’s BGT eco-friendly AKTORAS to reduce shipping emission
Sopuruchi Onwuka Bonny Gas Transport Limited (BGT), a subsidiary of Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG), has chartered a newbuild vessel, AKTORAS, in a strategic move to diversify and reduce the carbon footprint of its shipping portfolio. BGT was founded in 1989…
SIIFZ hosts NEPZA delegation; pledges economic infrastructure development
Sopuruchi Onwuka Snake Island Integrated Free Zone (“SIIFZ”) reaffirmed its commitment to Nigeria’s economic advancement during a familiarisation tour of the country’s free trade zones by the MD/CEO of the Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA). Speaking during the tour,…
Red Sea ship diversions unsettle vessel charter, bunker markets
* Shell, MOL, others halt all transits Sopuruchi Onwuka Continued Pirate attacks by unyielding Yemeni Houthi rebels on international shipping lines and the deterring airstrikes by the United States and the United Kingdom have made crossing canals and seas in…
Iran seizes oil tanker in Gulf of Oman
Sopuruchi Onwuka Iran declared on Thursday that its navy seized an oil tanker in the waters between Iran and Oman, according to foreign media sources. Iran’s state-run news agency IRNA confirming the seizure after the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations…
Nigerdock hosts UNIDO, NIPC delegations to foster investment and technology partnerships
Nigerdock, a leading Nigerian maritime and logistics company and promoter of Snake Island Integrated Free Zone (SIIFZ), recently hosted a delegation from the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) as part of efforts to drive the development of sustainable foreign…
IMO2020: Merchant navy in rush for LNG engines
Sopuruchi Onwuka, with agency reports The activation of the new global regulations on high sulfur fuels for international maritime industry is pushing significant demand for liquefied natural gas from shipping companies as the industry slowly navigates from fuel oils. The…
UN demands costly route to maritime decarbonization
Industry to shell $118 bn annually on fuel transition Sopuruchi Onwuka, with agency reports Transitioning global shipping and sundry maritime logistics to cleaner fuels would require costlier operating capital for the industry, threatening the economies of small island nations and…
