Shipping lines in Nigeria play very important roles in international trade especially easing business operations for clearing agents. From berthing with a vessel filled with containers, to integral parts that involve clearing agents in Nigeria. Some shipping lines have improved on how they render their services by integrating some form of technology to make the work of clearing agents in Nigeria better.

In no order, some of these shipping lines in Nigeria are:

 

PIL NIGERIA

PIL came into the Nigerian Market in September 2000 under the agency of Blue funnel, a division of Hull Blyth Nig Ltd.  It started with a staff strength of 38 persons, with 17,500 TEU imports and 3,150 TEU exports in its first year to now having over 70 members of staff with 70,000 TEU imports and 9,000 TEU exports per annum presently. Also having a port coverage in Nigeria in places like Apapa, Tincan-Island, Warri, Calabar, Onne and Port-Harcourt.

For clearing agents, effecting release from PIL is quite easy compared to other shipping lines in Nigeria. once draft payment is made at Guaranty trust bank (GT bank), you can then proceed to their office where you submit relevant documents to get your DO ( delivery order). Though you might go at some times where the queue is long but still, getting your DO is quite easy here.

Location: 34, wharf road, Apapa, Lagos state, Nigeria.

 

CMA CGM

CMA CGM was established as a shipping line in Nigeria (precisely Lagos) in 2007 and also operate in Onne. They are part of the CMA CGM worldwide network. They have a strong coverage in more than 150 countries.

Although CMA could be a little bit manual in some things they do, but it’s a hassle-free place where you can go and get things done quickly. Shipping charges can also be paid in form of drafts at Guaranty trust Bank (GT bank). After that you tender the right documents required to get your DO (delivery order). If you a customer who ships regularly through CMA, you can be placed on VIP status where you don’t even have to queue.

Location: 26, Creek road, Apapa-Lagos state, Nigeria.

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The unsavory consequences of the absence of scanners at the Nigerian ports resurfaced last week when a container laden with dangerous weapons and military camouflage uniforms was “flown” out of Apapa port in the full glare of security agencies at the ports. these agencies include, Department of security services (DSS), Port health, Nigeria customs service (NCS), Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) security, Port Police, Nigerian Agricultural Quarantine service (NAQS) and Nigeria Immigrations Service (NIS). these are the ones allowed to operate inside the ports.

there are still others insistent on operating in the ports despite being barred. they include Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON), National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) among others. besides, there are other security operatives who still patrol outside the ports. In spite of all this number of security operatives, a 40-foot container of such magnitude disappeared from the ports and scaled through all the checkpoints mounted by this hordes of security men and women.

Already, the commissioner of Police, Lagos Ports Command, Celestine Okoye, has directed his detectives to trace the location of the missing container and arrest both the importer and others connected with the importation within 24 hours. the search for the container which came on the heels of wanton killings in the country by suspected herdsmen and kidnappers dressed in military camouflage has placed both the police and custom officials on ac ollision course after CP Okoye vowed to get to the root of the matter. Angered by this sudden disappearance, stakeholders have called  for a probe into the issue insisting that the container did not fly out of the ports but was cleared by appropriate authorities. An importer, Mr Eddy Akwaeze did not agree that the container flew out of the port. he said that the container is owned by high profile members of the society. he said the container was not examined. people are serving their pockets, he said. ‘Somebody somewhere planned the exit of the container.They know what happened.Nobody is serving Nigeria.people are serving their villages and tribes’ he said. Another Importer who spoke on condition of anonymity said that apart from calling for the installation of scanners in the ports, the Controller General of Customs’ compliance team or what is now called strikeforce, should be strengthened.

read more:https://www.collossians.com/weapon-laden-container-dissappeared-apapa-port/

There seems to be a lot of confusion in understanding the difference between demurrage and detention..
This is one of the most frequently asked questions relating to a container shipment..
Shipping and freight can be full of surprises and variables in terms of costs for a customer..
In a lot of cases, these costs maybe highly prohibitive to the extent of some customers abandoning cargoes at destination due to these costs.
In the context of containerized cargo these two cost items DEMURRAGE and DETENTION are crucial and could become a huge problem for the customers if they do not control their shipments properly and effectively..
Demurrage and detention is mostly associated with imports although it may happen in the case of exports as well..
In this article I will explain, What is demurrage and detention, why is it charged, who charges it and who pays for it with some examples..
Although the most common market practice is to combine demurrage and detention, it is important to know the difference between demurrage and detention..

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A Florida man named Thomas Ross claims he and not Steve Jobs created the iPhone and the iPad, and wants Apple to pay him $10 billion for stealing his idea. Thomas, who has sued Apple Inc. cited his sketches from 1992 as evidence that he was the revolutionary genius behind the iPhone.The drawings/ sketches show a rectangle with a screen on it,  and was sketched 15 years before the iPhone’s debut in 2007.The sketches bear some resemblance to Apple’s device, but if we were to judge the case by these standards, Ross can also claim to have invented the Kindle, the personal digital assistant and the Nintendo DS as they all have a rectangle shape with a screen on it.

read more: https://bobbymishark.blogspot.com.ng/2016/06/florida-man-claims-he-invented-iphone.html

With the Internet, pretty much anything is possible! Including ruling an entire kingdom via Skype, apparently.
Meet King Togbe Ngoryifia Céphas Kosi Bansah, the 66-year-old king of the Hohoe area of southeastern Ghana, who governs his people via Skype.
According to The sources, Bansah once moved to Germany to attend school as a foreign exchange student, but decided not to return to Ghana after he met and fell in love with a woman named Gabrielle, who is now his wife.
He became the king of Hohoe in 1987, after the death of his grandfather, who was the reigning king.
Sources says “he was chosen over his elder brother and father because both are left-handed, an attribute that his people believe is unclean and indicative of dishonesty.”

Reports state that Bansah runs a garage in Germany, but still finds time to govern the 200,000 people of Hohoe via Skype and telephone calls, often staying awake all night to rule and settle tribal disputes.

Is he playing politics or a politician with a conscience....whats your take on this?.Former VP Atiku Abubakar was supposed to celebrate his 68th birthday in Abuja today with family and friends but he has cancelled the party because of the blast in Kano yesterday that killed over 100.

 

And you were saying....? Lawd have mercy!! lol. Lil Wayne's daughter Reginae Carter last night celebrated her 16th birthday with a totally lavish party full of entertainment. Guests were thrilled when Nicki Minaj showed up as a surprise to perform at the event but lids were blown off when for birthday presents, this young woman received a brand new Ferrari from her stepfather, Memphitz AND a red BMW SUV. Check out the super cars after the cut. Lots of people are 'complaining' that the gifts are too much for a 16 year old. But who cares

BENIN CITY- GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state yesterday declared that the President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration has killed many Edo indigenes due to the alleged refusal by the President to give ecological funds to areas devastated by erosion in the state and many other APC states.

He regretted that the President would play partisan politics with the lives of Nigerians and Edo people in particularly despite the 95 per cent votes he enjoyed in the state in 2011, vowing that the President and his party the PDP, would be voted out come 2015. Oshiomhole also lampooned the Federal government austerity measures due to fallen prices oil, querying that “ what did they do with our money when oil was N108 per barrel. They said we should tighten our belt but they gave us no belt, that is anti people”.

The Governor declare this at the traditional Urhokpota Ground Ring Road Benin City, where he received the former Minister of State for Works and PDP Chieftain, Engr. Chris Ogiemwonyi and over two thousand of
his supporters into the APC. About 20 palace chiefs led by Chief Jackson Igbinoba, and different PDP groups one of them led by Chief Arala Osula, dumped the party for the APC.

Ogiemwonyi said he decided to dump the PDP after what he described as the failure of the PDP to fix both the economic, security and other problems bedevilling the nation. He added that Governor Oshiomhole’s developmental strides in Edo state and the achievement of other APC governors convinced him that APC means well for the Edo people and Nigerians in general.

Oshiomhole who received the decampees into the party gave reasons why Nigerians must vote the PDP led Federal government out. His words, “What is buried in the name of PDP can never resurrect because the Bible says, he who die in sin shall perish and languish in hell. And because PDP died in sin, they killed, they embezzled our money, they dehumanized our people, they enveloped Benin with flood, converted our young one to prostitution and reduced Edo from the heart beat to a part of the country that was now remember only by reference to very negative headlines.

“ It will take PDP more than a hundred years to pay reparation to Edo people. If anybody imagine what has happened in this state for six years, then you can better calculate how much they stole from the treasury of this state and how many miles they set up backwards in terms of where were are supposed to be. And that is why when the President came here to say that Edo will fall, I said well who is speaking. Can a man who is on the ground speak to a man who is on his feet?




“ PDP has already been fallen and buried in Edo state many many years ago. Yes in the last election we asked our people to vote on the basic of certain sentiments, and the PDP at the Presidential level won 95 per cent of the votes. But now Edo people are asking, what do we have to show for it. The erosion caused by PDP at Queen Ede has destroyed the schools built for Edo child. That erosion is destroying the Catholic Church, it has destroyed several houses, killed many of our people.

“ Federal PDP shared money to PDP states including states where the President lost election, they did not give one dim to the people of Edo state. Our crime because we voted wrongly. In Auchi, erosion have swept away more then 50 per cent of the houses and swept away others, they shared the ecology money they gave no dim to the people of Auchi. In Esan Central and West, erosion has destroyed a number of communities, PDP produced leaders in Esan land they did not bring one dime to deal with erosion in Esan land, but they gave money to Delta, they gave money to Bayelsa, they gave money to Cross River, they gave money to Niger, Jigawa, Kaduna and others.

“ What is our offence because we voted wrongly? So when we say APC, Change PDP, Change Jonathan it is informed by evidence. We must change both the party and the driver. PDP has failed for sixteen years they should leave.
“And let me be very specific, if we had not removed PDP in Edo we wold not have experienced the change we are seeing today in Edo. If we remove PDP from Abuja the way we removed them from Edo we will have power, universities will not be closing for six months, they will not be distributing SURE-P through PDP leaders, they will not be devaluing the currency and they will not be acting like small gods” he asserted

Latest News reaching BMB, is that a reedemers university student was rushed to the schools clinic after loud noises were heard from her room. When students rushed to her room to find out what the problem was,it was discovered that a cucumber she used in wanking had broken with
a large part of it still in her private part. The student who is a new 100 level student (fresher) had already been rushed to a hospital.

Jesus has been arrested after walking on water in Philadelphia’s Love Park, USA.
A street performer Michael Grant or ‘Philly Jesus’ is a local celebrity in Philadelphia’s parks. His favorite pastime is walking on water in the park’s fountains, and occasionally baptising people.

And although police is convinced that Jesus violates public order, “Messiah’s” supporters are ready to do everything possible to release him out of prison.

after collecting huge sums for tuition, dey cant even handle the affairs of the skool properly

A 300level student of Bells University of Technology in Ota, Ogun state named Ruth Idahosa died around 2am this morning after suffering an Asthma attack late last night.

According to her friends, Ruth had the attack while eating, causing her to choke and lose balance, leading to her falling and hitting her head on the ground. She bled.

The students around her said they called the university ambulance but there was no answer. They were left with no choice than to use a hairdresser's vehicle to lift the unconscious girl to the clinic.

    "As usual, the incompetent nurses and staff of the clinic started to delay. Then the worst came - she passed on." her friend said. So sad! May her soul rest in peace..amen.