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 imp...
A B S T R A C T Bunkering has to do with the fueling of Ships. It is a legitimate trade whereby licensed operators are authorized to provide fuel and other provision to vessels. This study has appraised the practice of the bunker trade in Nigeria with emphasis on the Niger Delta Region and to demystify all that has been stated about illegal bunkering in Nigeria. Bunkering as an organized trade has traders, brokers and buyers who play very important roles. These have been extensively...
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 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...