shippingposition
  • Home
  • News
  • Editorial
    • Vox Pop
  • Maritime safety
  • Oil and Gas
  • Personality
  • Health
No Result
View All Result
shippingposition

Home » PHASING OUT OF SINGLE HULL TANKERS: Indigenous Ship Owners, NIMASA at War

PHASING OUT OF SINGLE HULL TANKERS: Indigenous Ship Owners, NIMASA at War

by Joshua
December 22, 2008
in Uncategorized

The relationship between Indigenous Ship Owners Association (ISAN) and the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) May be heading for the rocks following disagreement over the implementation of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) directive on single hull tankers.
The IMO had on January 1, 2005 given member- nations a 15- year grace period to phase out the use of single hull oil tankers following the loss of the 26-year-old single-hull tanker MT Prestige off the Spanish coast in 2002.
But the directive also allows for regional differences. “A flag State may permit its ships to sail for a longer time, but port States may then refuse those ships access to their ports”, the global maritime regulatory body had said in 2005 ahead of the coming into force of the  directive in 2015. But, NIMASA had since November, 2008 notified indigenous ship owners that it would start implementation as from January 1, 2009; a clear six years before the IMO’s expiry date. It says that come January, it will no longer allow single hull tankers to operate on Nigerian waters by refusing to register them.
But, viewed as a calculated attempt to chase them out of business, ISAN, which is the umbrella body for all indigenous ship owning interests in Nigeria, is already calling on relevant bodies to call NIMASA to order.
According to a statement that was signed by it chairman, Chief Isaac Jolapamo, ISAN raised alarm that if implemented in January, NIMASA will be sending about 95 per cent of the tankers that are currently engaged in Cabotage or coastal trade in Nigeria out of business. 
The group lampooned NIMASA for insisting on banning single hull tankers in Nigeria by 2009, when such tankers are still in use in other parts of Africa as well as Asia and some parts of Europe.
“One therefore finds it difficult to understand why NIMASA, whose major responsibility is to pursue the development of shipping in Nigeria and implement policies and programmes that will facilitate the growth of local capacity  in vessel ownership….”, the statement read.
According to the ship owners what NIMASA is doing is to further frustrate them out of the Cabotage trade as financial institutions with which they were having business relationships have started to have double minds and are becoming anxious about the funds which are already tied down in many shipping-related transactions.

 


Related Posts

ECOWAS Electricity Agency Assures Of Stable, Affordable Power Across W/Africa From 2023

FG Urges Entrepreneurs To Embrace ECOWAS Trade Scheme

May 19, 2023
Nigeria Targets Over $500 Million From Cashew Export

Weekly Global Marine Incidents May 8, 2023

May 8, 2023
Stock Exchange Closes Week With 24 Gainers 27 Losers

Stock Exchange Closes Week With 24 Gainers 27 Losers

May 1, 2023
Investors Buyout Norwegian Car Carriers from Klaveness

Investors Buyout Norwegian Car Carriers from Klaveness

May 1, 2023

Discussion about this post

Latest News

Vessels Expected At Lagos Ports As At 6th June, 2023

Vessels Expected At Lagos Ports As At 6th June, 2023

June 6, 2023

MWUN Call Off Strike Action As Shipping Coys Agree On Acceptable Condition Of Services 

NIMASA Debunks Nepotism Allegations Says Structure Based On Merit Professionalism 

Reps Summon NEPC MD Over Status Of $1.67bn Crude Oil Revenue

Court Sentence Three To Two Years Imprisonment Over Assault On Customs Officers

Customs Seizes Pangolin Scales Worth N432m In Bauchi

Customs PTML Welcomes Comptroller Saidu Yusuf, As Mahmoud Ibrahim Bows Out

Do you think Navy handled the prosecution of MV Heroin Idun very well?

Lesson From MT Heroic Idun    

Nigeria Stock Exchange Closes Market With Market Capitalization Of N30.4trn

We Won’t Fix Petrol Prices Again – NMDPRA

Subsidy: CPPE Urges FG On Interventions To Mitigate Impacts

kindly like our Facebook page

Health

  Taking Aphrodisiacs To Improve Sexual Potency, Dangerous — Experts
Health

  Taking Aphrodisiacs To Improve Sexual Potency, Dangerous — Experts

June 5, 2023

Health experts have described the trending addiction to aphrodisiacs by youths and some male adults for sexual potency as harmful...

COVID-19: Fifth Wave Looms As Nigeria Records Three Deaths In One Week

Most Diseases Are Preventable

May 29, 2023
Garcinia Kola: The Magic Of Chewing Just One Bitter Kola

Benefits Of Bitter Kola

May 29, 2023
FG To Place 80% Hypertensive Nigerians On Standard Treatment

FG To Place 80% Hypertensive Nigerians On Standard Treatment

May 22, 2023
High Blood Pressure Explained

High Blood Pressure Explained

May 22, 2023
Some Impressive Health Benefits Of Onions That May Interest You

Some Impressive Health Benefits Of Onions That May Interest You

May 22, 2023
Failed IVF Cycles Not End Of Parenthood Journey

Failed IVF Cycles Not End Of Parenthood Journey

May 15, 2023
COVID-19: Fifth Wave Looms As Nigeria Records Three Deaths In One Week

COVID-19: Nigeria Embarks On Integrated Health Emergency

May 15, 2023
Some Health Benefits Of Eating Groundnuts (Peanuts)

Some Health Benefits Of Eating Groundnuts (Peanuts)

May 15, 2023
BEWARE: Too Much Sex Is Bad For You!

DANGER: Why Sudden Death Happens During Sex – Expert

May 8, 2023

© 2021 Shippingposition

Navigate Site

  • Home
  • About Us
  • Contact us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Sitemap
  • Terms

Follow Us

No Result
View All Result
  • News
  • Coast To Coast
  • Oil and Gas
  • Maritime Education
  • The Terminals
  • Maritime safety

© 2021 Shippingposition