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Nigeria has approved a N58.6 billion ($369 million) fund for the construction of a ship building facility in the Niger Delta region of the country. The country’s Minister of Transport, Idris Umar, told reporters that an initial N40.2 billion ($253.2 million) will be provided for the delivery of maritime equipments, with a further N18.4 billion ($115.9 million) for civil and structural engineering works.

According to him, the project will be situated in Delta State – a move that strategically targets Nigeria’s oil industry.

He highlighted the manufacturing deficit present in the shipping industry, which, according to him, costs millions of dollars in overseas vessel acquisition.

“We have a very serious dearth in the ship building capacity in the country and it is, therefore, imperative that we develop the facility in order to curtail the incessant capital flight that is being experienced by the Nigerian economy.

“Annually, we have to be acquiring vessels and ships outside the country which is telling on the economy,” the minister explained. Once completed, the facility will help reduce the amount spent on procuring ships from foreign manufacturers.

According to the minister, the project has the propensity to drive sustainable development and capacity building in Nigeria’s maritime sector. “It will also help Nigeria to take its rightful place among the developed maritime nations across the world,’’ the minister added. The project is in line with the West African nation’s drive towards local production of ships and other maritime facilities.

In Collaboration, AFRICAN SHIPPING LINE - ASLINE West Africa will be looking to create more opportunities for the framework for the growth, development and the transformation of maritime transport in Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ivory Coast as well as Senegal.

Presently, African Shipping Line -West Africa (Nigeria) operates in 6 ports – Lagos Port Complex and Tincan Island Port Complex, as well as that of Rivers, Delta, Calabar and Onne Port.

SOUTH AFRICA TO ENTER INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING MARKET: SAMSA

The AU’s draft Integrated African Maritime Strategy 2050 sets out plans for securing Africa’s territorial waters against illegal fishing, piracy, robbery, dumping of toxic waste and oil discharges. It also outlines the importance of a fleet of vessels owned by Africans and flagged in African countries. In addition, the strategy embraces the sustainable exploitation of offshore energy reserves, tourism as well as conservation.

But it will depend on co-operation between states, for the mutual benefit of the continent says African Union (AU) chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma

The absence of a strategy has been disastrous, according to South African Maritime Safety Authority (Samsa) CEO Commander Tsietsi Mokhele.


Piracy on the east African coast, he said, was created by the failure of countries to police their coastlines. Heavy pollution affected the livelihoods of fishermen, and piracy was an offshoot of that environmental disaster. "It’s a symptom of what happens when countries fail to manage their offshore real estate," Com Mokhele said.

Failure to take charge of the governance of African waters would expose the continent to more insecurity and instability. And it would raise the cost of trade. South Africa’s Deputy Transport Minister Sindisiwe Chikunga acknowledged at the conference that African countries had failed to exploit the sector. But she was adamant that South Africa would become a shipping nation.

"Government wants to enter the international shipping market. We want to build, maintain and repair ships. We intend for South Africa to have its own fleet as soon as possible."

Ms Chikunga called for evidence-based research to support the direction that South Africa’s maritime strategy will take. And she said South Africa intended to create a maritime university to deal with the dearth of industry skills. Ship owners, she said, control the industry. Until Africans owned ships, the continent would not control who was employed, how they were employed and which routes they adopted.

South Africa’s shipping registry has been empty since 2010, when the last remaining commercial vessel to fly South Africa’s flag was decommissioned. Plans to attract shippers have not been adopted yet. The Treasury’s introduction of a tonnage tax, suggested as far back as 2005, appeared to have stalled.

A policy framework for the maritime sector, which is set to guide the government’s response, has long been promised by the Department of Transport. That the department has had three different ministers in two years has compounded the policy uncertainty.

AFRICA ENERGY/PETROLEUM & SHIPPING SECTORS

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Against the backdrop of the three-day investment roundtable in Cape Town, South Africa, John Iwori, who attended the event, writes that African countries are forging a common front in the shipping and energy sectors of the continent’s economy.



African countries are now coming together to forge ahead to tackle odds, especially in the shipping and energy sectors of their economies. it is said, They need to collaborate and work together in their quest to drive their shipping and energy sectors to handle their economies.

SHIPPING LINES IN SOMALIA : MOGADISHU PORT GROWING AT A FASTER RATE

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Shipping Line companies presence in Mogadishu has increased considerably with Major Liners including China Container Shipping Lines, Hanjin, MSC, Maersk Line, ZIM and Evergreen showing their interests in Mogadishu port of Somalia where few months ago, piracy was it's peek. It is understood that Piracy has completely been "wiped" out after EU and US naval forces maintained their presence in Somalia's Water to reduce piracy risks.

Currently CMA-CGM, MSC, AFRICA SHIPPING LINE, Simatech, PERMA LINE, EMKAY LINE are doing brisk business following the reconstruction period of Somalia as a state even after being absent in International politics for close to 25 years.

Africa Shipping Line - Mogadishu  offices are already handling Container consignments at the port which consist of Mainly Containerized Cargo as well as Ro-Ro & BreakBulk shipments.

So far a total of 3000+ Containers is handled every week at the port of Mogadishu which is the largest Shipping port in Somalia. Mogadishu port is also known for it's Livestock business. 

KENYA (KENIA) MOMBASA PORT WASTE

The Kenya's National Environment watchdog has ordered the return to the United Kingdom of 20 tonnes of waste imports. 

Last week, the National Environment Management Authority’s investigators unearthed a scandal at the port of Mombasa involving the illegal importation of a 40-foot container load of solid waste from the UK.

A NEW INDIAN CONTAINER TERMINAL SET TO SERVE AFRICA PORTS

Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (SEZ) Ltd, part of the Adani Group, and the world’s second largest container shipping line, Swiss headquartered Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) have formed a joint venture to operate ‘Adani International Container Terminal Private Ltd’ (AICTPL), a new freight terminal in the South Basin at Mundra Port, Gujarat. The new terminal, the third container facility at Mundra Port, will have a capacity of 1.5 million TEU. Mr Gautam Adani, Chairman Adani Group, said:

"Adani Ports has been at the forefront of creating modern Port Infrastructure, catering to export/import and domestic needs for over 16 years. The new container terminal will enable the biggest and largest container vessels to seamlessly berth & operate at Mundra. With rapid access to North & West India hinterland, the trade will benefit from scale benefits of larger vessels calling at Mundra, in addition to proximity to hinterland markets, providing a compelling cost advantage to port users. The new container terminal will be a regional hub with trans-shipment of international cargo being performed.

"These facilities, along with other terminals in Mundra & Hazira are poised to serve the nation's sorely needed infrastructure shortages. Furthermore, Adani Ports will be expanding capacity to serve the nation's port infrastructure needs, providing International standards of capability and cost efficiency.”

These facilities will serve well the Africa Shipping Sector and the volumes of containers from India, Pakistan and China to Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Africa, Somalia and Djibouti will definately increase.

Africa Shipping Lines has been at the forefront in linking Africa with the Subcontinent and other Asia Countries.

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LIVESTOCK SHIPMENT: MOMBASA, DJIBOUTI & MOGADISHU

Livestock Shipment and the type of animals involved between Kenya (Mombasa Port) to Mauritius (Port Louis) at the moment.

AFRICA ASIA CONTAINER NETWORK

This is a simulation of the upcoming Shipping Network between China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Dubai and Africa Sectors

NOTICE TO TRADE: DEMURRAGE/DETENTION FOR CONTAINERS (SOC/SLOTS)

DEMURRAGE/ DETENTION FOR CONTAINERS (SOC/ SLOTS) - (Dubai, Mombasa, Mogadishu, Berbera and Djibouti)

Import 

• Please be advised that, Calculations for Free time will be from the time the containers become available at the terminal; (if the container arrives at Terminal before 08.00hrs, then free time counts from the same day. If after 08.00hrs, free time counts from the next day.
• Saturday and Sunday are counted as calendar days in Freeday period, however, National Holidays are excluded.
• Detention charge is based on calendar day, and subject to a VAT charge of 8%.

Export 

• Freetime is calculated from the next day after release of empty container from the terminal. 
• Demurrage and detention charges are subject to a VAT charge of 8%.