Abstract The toxicity, accumulation of hydrocarbon and selected heavy metals, and biomarker responses were investigated in three macroinvertebrate species of Lagos lagoon exposed to drill cuttings.
ABSTRACT An ecological study of the macrobenthic invertebrates community of Epe Lagoon was carried out.
ABSTRACT The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency is a maritime regulatory agency and concerns with enormous responsibilities such as promoting indigenous shipping lines, shipping development, pollution control, ensuring adherence with IMO and ILO conventions among others, So based on the above functions, the research work will look into Information Technology as a sustainable index in the maritime industry. The research will first look into the development of informa...
ABSTRACT Transport infrastructure is the fixed part of a transport system. Transport infrastructure development remains one of the major tools for achieving the much needed rapid economic growth in Nigeria. Hence, the study aims at investigating the effect of funding on transport infrastructure development and the implication of this to the economy. The scope of the study was confined within the time frame of 1981-2004. The researcher used GDP, Budgetary Allocation to Transport and the Contr...
ABSTACT This research assesses the challenges and prospects of maintenance in Onne ports operations. Data were obtained from eighty maintenance staff in Federal Ocean Terminal (FOT) and Federal Lighter Terminal (FLT) using questionnaire. Simple random sampling technique was used in selecting the sample used for this research. The Yaro Yamen formula was employed to determine the sample size. Data were converted from ordinal scale to interval scale and three hypotheses were tested with the a...
ABSTRACT This research focused on assessing the port performance: the queuing theory approach using Apapa port complex (APC) as the case study. The research was designed and carried out to answer among others the following questions: to assess the level of vessel turnaround time, traffic intensity, the waiting time of calling vessels at the port? Also, to determine the probability of vessel queuing on arrival at the port? To answer these questions only primary means of data collection were u...
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.0 Background Information The seaports are very important to the Nigerian trade as practically all imports and exports move through the ports. The importance of the seaports is attested to by the fact that approximately 99% by volume of Nigeria total imports and exports are seaborne; Nigeria ports control 60% of import into West and Central Africa. The ports have served as a major determinant of how economic activities are distributed. The volume of cargo-throu...
ABSTRACT This is an evaluative study of Inland Waterway Transport Development in Nigeria. Three sets of 5 point Likert Scale questionnaire were crafted for the study for the following categories of respondents; National Inland Water Authority (NIWA) Staff, Ferry Operators and the Inhabitants respectively. Five research questions and five hypotheses were also formed for the study. Data collected were analyzed with descriptive and inferential statistics such as mean procedure and One-way Anov...
ABSTRACT This research work titled „‟An Econometric Study of tanker Shipping services in Nigeria‟‟ aimed at examining the demand for tanker shipping services with the resultant crude oil to be exported from Nigeria to other parts of the world using a time series regression approach and correlations. The objective is to ascertain whether the demand for tanker vessels (tonnage) corresponds with the resultant volume of the crude oil available at oil terminal to be exported. Our findings...
ABSTRACT The Nigerian maritime industry is dominated by foreign shipping companies. The foreign firms dominated over 95% of the activities whereby, rendering the indigenous companies useless and non-active. However, these have resulted to many companies to go underground since they cannot participate or complete favourably with the foreign companies. As a result of this, Nigeria loses billion of naira annually though capital flight which has affected the economy negatively. Nigeria is an im...
ABSTRACT This work is to appraise the concessioning of Onne Port to Intel Nigeria Limited, the extent to which port reforms has positively influenced the development of Port Operations at Onne Port. To evaluate the developmental changes that have occurred, the researcher used statistical tools like spearman rank order and chi-square to analyze the data collected from the population of port users. Some hypotheses were developed. The study reveals that the hypothesis conducted showed that O...
ABSTRACT The inadequacies of Nigerian ports toward the delivery of quality services such as good infrastructure, cargo handling, vessel quick turn round time, corrupt and fraudulent tendencies has given rise to privatization and concession since this practices can brief about the required level of efficiency and effectiveness when compared with international standards. This research work would enable us ascertain the effects of concessioning of Nigeria seaports. And also evaluate the viab...
ABSTRACT This study attempts to analyze the Impact of the implementation of the Cabotage law on the Maritime Industry in Nigeria. Taking the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) as the case study, the study x-rayed the level of enforcement of the Cabotage by NIMASA as a Maritime regulatory body in Nigeria. More emphasis was laid on the benefits accruable to stakeholders of coastal trade. A Comparative analysis is carried between few selected countries and Nigeria. W...
ABSTRACT This study assessed the impact of the port concession adopted in Nigerian ports in 2006. The study is necessary in order to ascertain the impact of the model based on a painstaking study. Data was collected from the abstract of ports statistics on three major variables namely, cargo throughput, average berth occupancy and average turnaround time, from 1995 to 2012. The data was analysed using Mann- Whitney Wilcoxon (WWW) Test. The result shows that on the average, all the indices...
ABSTRACT In 2003 the cabotage law was enacted with provisions to empower local investors to take control of the domestic shipping trade and from it develop enough muscle to assume the right of place for Nigeria as a maritime nation in the movement of her import/export cargoes including crude oil to and from international markets. The implementation/enforcement of the provisions of the Act needs to be constantly monitored to ensure that the goals and objectives of the law are pursued with ...