The Maritime Reporters Association of Nigeria (MARAN) will this week hold a two-day forum on dredging of Calabar Port. The effort is aimed at rejuvenating that eastern port.
The forum which has the theme: "Economic Imperatives of Dredging of the Calabar Port and is expected to be chaired by Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, President of African Business Roundtable and former Governor of old Gongola state.
The governor of Cross River State, Senator Liyel Imoke, will declare the forum open as the Chief Host while the Minister of Transport, Alhaji Yusuf Suleiman who is also the Guest of Honour, will present a keynote address.
The forum is expected to be attended by government officials, shipping companies, members of the National Assembly (NASS), freight forwarders, concessionaires, port administrators, marine engineers, and maritime lawyers, amongst several others.
The desire of MARAN to drum-up public support for the dredging of the port has attracted the attention of the Federal Ministry of Transport, which thus found it necessary to partner the Association in this patriotic venture.
It will hold at the Diamond Hall, Metropolitan Hotel, Calabar, Cross River State between19th and 20th of August, 2010.
Calabar Port is one of the six major seaports in the country, which has unfortunately recorded the lowest patronage of deep ocean-going vessels owing to its shallow draft. The avoidable situation has thus adversely affected the growth of shipping activities in the port and by implication, the overall economy of the area.
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