The International Chamber of Commerce’s International Maritime Bureau (IMB)’s annual piracy report recorded an increase of piracy and armed robbery incidents in 2020. In 2020, IMB’s Piracy Reporting Centre (PRC) received 195 incidents of piracy and armed robbery against ships worldwide, in comparison to 162 in 2019. The incidents included three hijacked vessels, 11 vessels […]
Increasing maritime threats have resulted in huge losses for the shipping companies and coastal States of the Gulf of Guinea, forcing them to find new methods to tackle maritime criminality. In order to answer to this problem, several private companies have started to provide maritime security services, which are custom made for the present modern […]
The Ghana Shippers’ Authority (GSA), Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) and the National Insurance Commission (NIC) have signed a Marine Cargo Insurance Protocol at a ceremony held at the Ghana Shippers’ House on 23rd December 2020. The protocol is to ensure adherence to the Insurance Act.2006 (Act 724), which requires that with the express exception of personal […]
APM Terminals Apapa now has a new operations command centre, recently inaugurated by Nigeria’s Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi. He was accompanied by the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, Ms. Hadiza Bala-Usman Fitted with 20 units of 55-inch TV wall screens, the centre receives real time visual updates of quay moves, deliveries, truck […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has created important challenges in terms of coordinating work on safety and security within the Central and West African common maritime space. To address this, IMO helped set up a new video conferencing service for the Interregional Coordination Centre (ICC) in Yaoundé, Cameroon. The new system, fully installed since 18 December, allows regional stakeholders […]
Press release: The Council prolonged the mandates of its two Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) missions in Somalia and Operation ATALANTA. The mandate of EUCAP Somalia, the EU’s civilian capacity-building mission, EUTM Somalia, the EU’s military training mission, and Operation ATALANTA, the EU’s executive military maritime operation, will now run until 31 December 2022. The decision was […]
Yesterday, Tuesday, December 22, 2020, took place the signing of an agreement of more than 840 million US dollars between DP Word and the State of Senegal for the construction of the first phase of the future port of Ndayane. This ceremony, which took place in the presence of President Macky Sall, is the first […]
On 14 December 2020, the container terminal at the port of Owendo in Gabon set an all-time record by unloading and loading 3,744 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit) containers from and onto the container ship “Turquoise”. The Owendo Container Terminal (OCT) teams thus handled the largest volume of containers in one port of call to date, […]
On 15th December 2020, MPS and EIFFAGE Génie Civil reached an agreement to extend the original FIDIC Yellow Book Contract to include the Land Works for the 4th New Berth of the MPS Terminal 3 (part of Phase 2 of the Tema Port Expansion Project. Over the past two years, EIFFAGE has devoted its effort […]
WOMESA organize a webinar session to mark the UN 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence on Tuesday 15th December 2020 from 14.00hrs to 16.00hrs EAT, under the 2020 global theme: “Orange the World: Fund, Respond, Prevent, Collect!“ The key objectives of the webinar are: To keep abreast with the developments occurring at the national, […]
