Car Importation to Nigeria- Roro shipping, Containerized Shipping, Custom Clearing, Duty payment: February 2017

Tuesday 28 February 2017

Haropa Ports Sees Double Digit Maritime Trade with India

France-based Haropa port expects oceanic exchange with India to develop at twofold digit this date-book year subsequent to having announced 7% development in 2016, said Herve Martel, , CEO - Port of Le Havre and President-HAROPA ports.

Chief Audu Ogbeh

THE Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh has said that Nigeria being the biggest maker of cassava on the planet should not be bringing in garri from India.

FG Vows to End Wheat Importation

The Federal Government says it is prepared to put a conclusion to the nonstop importation of wheat to lift local production and energize farmers in the nation.

Despite Ban, Imported Spaghetti Still Sold At Nigerian Malls

In spite of the ban put on importation of specific items by the Nigerian government, imported spaghetti is still offered at shopping centers crosswise over Nigeria,

Grimaldi Agency introduces new Electronic Payment Options

Grimaldi Agency Nigeria Limited has created and presented various installment choices for port clients.

‘NIMASA, Customs Partnership Will Boost Nigeria’s Economic Progress’

The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside, has expressed that NIMASA and the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) are accomplices in advance in conveying the sought development and improvement to the Nigerian maritime industry specifically and the Nigerian economy.

Dr Dakuku Peterside

FG, call Customs to Order

Frankly, the way Customs officers acted in attacking Sango-Ota motor garage at midnight on February 22 to strike more than 60 shops and truck away the products of market women calls for general redesigning and change of the Customs and Excise Management Acts 158 and 645 by the National Assembly.

Nigeria: Trump's Travel Ban - Groups in U.S. Plan to Help Nigerians

New York — The Nigerian people group says it is set up to lawfully protect any Nigerian traveler going to the US if focused by migration authorities.

Port of Tauranga Posts First Half Profit Gain as Cargo Picks up

Port of Tauranga CEO Mark Cairns says he's soothed to see income development as cargo volumes develop at New Zealand's greatest port, after the ending of five-year, $350 million capital spending program that included planning for greater boats.

Importers Kick Against Transfer of Containers on Cost, Security Concerns

Some of Nigerian importers have in the current time drawn the Government's thoughtfulness regarding the need to put hold the transfer of overtime containers to off-dock offices particularly Ikorodu Lighter Terminal (IKLT) in Lagos.

Paradox- Nigerians Importing Indian Garri

An imported gari bundled as "Ïndian Gari" showed and sold to the general population in a Lagos store, came as an inconsiderate stun and finish amazement to a huge number of Nigerians. Beforehand, it was impossible that Nigeria would ever come to the heart of the matter of bringing in gari, a well known West African staple sustenance produced using cassava tubers.

Nigeria is not just the world's biggest maker of cassava, creating in abundance of 45 million metric tons for every annum and representing more than 80% of the world's yield. As indicated by the World Bank, indigenous research establishments and the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics, NBS, Nigeria is likewise prided as the world's biggest exporter of the item.
Various gainful money crops have kept Nigeria on the world guide of fares for a considerable length of time paying little mind to the nation's disregard of farming. Cassava is a standout amongst the most striking. Alongside sorghum, cotton, rice and cocoa, cassava is one of the products recognized as an imminent outside trade worker for the nation under the Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA) with Nigeria turning into the biggest cassava processor comprehensively.

Indian Gari

As indicated by the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics, NBS farming study, 33 conditions of the Federation are as of now developing cassava, yet with the most recent advancement that could be deciphered as a sign of an absence of significant worth expansion of characteristic assets, Nigeria keeps on residual a financial conundrum.

Favored with the best soil for cultivation and agriculture well disposed climate, Nigeria continually spends fortune on food imports, notwithstanding for ready to eat items from products produced locally.

From accessible records, an expected 600 million tons of sustenance is transported in into the nation every year. In 2015, the nation imported more than three million metric huge amounts of rice. Nigeria spends about N75 billion bringing in rice each year and is as of now the world's second most astounding rice importing country after China.

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In the vicinity of 2006 and 2015, Nigeria imported 24 million metric huge amounts of rice esteemed at N1.77 trillion. In five years, Nigeria imported somewhere in the range of 14.7 million metric huge amounts of processed rice esteemed at N1.15 trillion. Once a power dealer in sugar trades, Nigeria now spends in abundance of N60 billion every year to import sugar, N165 billion goes to the importation of wheat and N105 billion on fish.

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Medicinal Cannabis Crops now Legalized in Australia

medicinal marijuana will be more generally acceptable in Australia inside two months, after the health minister pastor optimized importation of cannabis by affirmed suppliers.

How NIMASA Can Benefit From Ship Chandling

Nigeria is losing a few billions of naira yearly for not concentrating on ship chandling, The Nation has learnt.

Importers and Customs Clearing Agents have asked the Director-General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA Dr Dakuku Peterside and the Board of the agency to tap into chandling, They portray the business as a most lucrative one in the division.

Dispatch chandling, a business set up in Nigeria through an Act in 1958, is comprised of retail merchants who have practical experience in the supply of gear and merchandise for boats, known as boats' stores.

Things that could be found in a chandlery may include: rosin, turpentine, tar, pitch (sap), linseed oil, whale oil, fat, grease, varnish, twine, rope and cordage, hemp, oakum and apparatuses (ax, hatchet, pound, etch, planes, lamp, nail, spike, vessel snare, caulking iron, hand pump, (marlinspike).

Others are floor brushes, mops, kitchen supplies, calfskin products, and paper. Things that could be provided by the advanced chandlers go from foodstuff, drinks, oil, motor oil, water, extras to materials that the Captain of the ship may require.

Nigeria Licensed Customs Clearing Agents (ANLCA) President, Prince Olayiwola Shittu, said however the Local Content Act was intended to address such issues, the National Content Monitoring Board was yet to comprehend the flow of the nearby substance in ship chandelling.

He said the nation loses billions of naira yearly because of the low level of exercises in the ship chandelling sub-part.

He asked Peteride and the office's Board to co-ordinate the statues directing boat chandelling to bridle it to make occupations for the young and lift the economy.

He brought up that ship chandelling needs subsidizes to meet the requests of the group.

For example, he said a ship of 5,000 Gross Registered Tonnage (GRT), would require about $50,000 month to month to take sustenances, pharmaceuticals, oil, ointments and different things for it to go to ocean and come back to the port.

The ANLCA boss said the affiliation was stressed that the enactment directing boat chandelling had been in out cold, a circumstance, which permitted the calling to stagnate, including that the Customs and Excise Management Act (CEMA), Section 24, which controls deliver chandelling, has not been surveyed since 1968 to mirror the new business slant.

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US Customs Block Canadian Man After Reading his Scruff Profile

A Vancouver man was denied entrance into the United States after a US Customs and Border Patrol officer read his profiles on the gay hookup application Scruff and the site BBRT.

The officer presumed the man was a sex specialist since he discovered messages from the man saying he was "searching for burdens," and accepted it implied he was requesting sex for money.

While the misconception may sound interesting, it underscores the sharp reality that non-Americans have not very many rights at the fringe, and that even doubt of criminal conduct can be utilized to deny non-Americans section.

André, a 30-year-old Vancouver set decorator who declined to give his full name because of a paranoid fear of countering from US Customs, portrays the experience as "embarrassing."

André says he was wanting to visit his sweetheart, who was working in New Orleans. In any case, when he was experiencing Customs preclearance at Vancouver air terminal last October, he was chosen for auxiliary investigation, where an officer took his telephone, PC and different belonging, and requested the passwords for his gadgets.

"I didn't realize what to do. I was terrified, so I gave them the secret key and after that I sat there for 60 minutes or two. I missed my flight," André says. "He returned and just began barbecuing me. 'Is this your email?' and it was an email appended to a Craigslist represent sex promotions. He asked me, 'Is this your record on Scruff? Is this you on BBRT?' I resembled, 'Yes, this is me.'"

At the point when the officer asked him what he implied by "searching for burdens," André says he attempted to clarify, yet the officer continued barbecuing him.

"I could tell just by his inclination that he had no expectations of letting me through. They were quite recently going to continue approaching me questions searching for something," he says. "So I requested the cross examination to stop. I inquired as to whether I backpedal to Canada am I banned forever? He said no, so I acknowledged that offer."

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Monday 20 February 2017

Benin Sees China as Leading Foreign Trade Partner During Fourth Quarter 2016

COTONOU - China positions as ninth importer and fourth exporter nation of Benin amid the final quarter 2016, the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Analysis (INSAE) said in its quarterly audit issued on Sunday.

Oman Government Withdraws Customs Duty on Bank Notes

Muscat: another customs duty of 0.5% on monetary certificates imported by trade houses and banks was pulled back by the administration inside four days of presenting the same, after cash exchanges presented a reminder to the Central Bank of Oman (CBO).

Gov Rotimi Amaechi

Against the background of a current review report uncovering that private terminal administrators in Nigerian ports lost about N58.9 billion to the rising outside trade shortage,

Deficient Scanners Jeopardise Security at Seaport- Apapa

As the country keeps on fighting with issues of well being and security, late signs uncovered that the country's purpose of passages, especially the seaports are not very much checked to direct against inundation of arms, ammo and some unwholesome goods.

More than 70% importers at Seme and Idiroko border have condemned the charges they pay at the seaports.

Customs Implements 20% Duty on Imported Medicines

Study by NGO appears more than 100% increment in costs of fundamental pharmaceuticals.

Most Nigerians will be unable to manage the cost of even fundamental solutions as the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) starts the usage of 20% tax on imported pharmaceutical items.

A round discharged as of late from the Federal Ministry of Finance titled: "Import Adjustment Tax", the minister, Kemi Adeosun, requested the presentation of 20% charges on imported medicaments. This implies for each transported in medications and united items a basic Tax of 20% is payable to the pocket of government through the Nigeria Customs Service.

This additional installment, investigators demand, will bring about more than corresponding increments in costs of medications, which certainly will course down the stepping stool to the basic man in the road, the very individuals the administration pledged to give moderate and accessible social insurance

Sadly, the strategy mandate is even in opposition to World Trade Organization (WTO) proposal, which the quick past legislature of previous President, Goodluck Jonathan, received amid his residency.

The WTO prescribed in 1988 that not more than five for every single tax on medicament as a method for quick sending the accomplishment of worldwide vision of reasonable all inclusive medicinal services and disposing of infections.

Subsequently the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Committee on Health, having taken insight of lack of medication assembling firms in the sub-locale, additionally suggested a waiver on the obligation and prescribed zero tax on imported medicament.

Before this, Nigeria actualized a strategy of 20% tax on medicament barring five for each single Value Added Tax (VAT). In 2013, in any case, the Federal Government investigated its arrangement and received the ECOWAS suggestion.

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$500m Requested From Trump Administration-Nigerian Group

The spiteful rule of the 45th US President confronts a crisp debate.

Gen Sani Abacha

A Nigerian financial and social rights aggregate has kept in touch with the White House requesting the arrival of $500 million of stolen assets, which it cases are being held by the US.

"(We ask) the organization to connect and discharge to Nigeria some $500 million worth of US-based continues of debasement followed to previous Nigerian despot General Sani Abacha," the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) wrote in an open letter.

The letter refers to US commitments as a signatory to the UN Convention Against Corruption, and requests that the administration "quickly start common resource relinquishment procedures" to guarantee that the assets are quickly come back to Nigeria

General Sani Abacha was a famous despot who drove Nigeria for a long time subsequent to taking force in a 1993 overthrow. He is asserted to have stolen over $4 billion amid his rule, before his passing in 1998.

SERAP's claim is the most recent in a progression of endeavors to recuperate lost riches from Abacha and his family, which has been solidified in records and resources around the globe.

Switzerland has recouped and returned around $700 million to Nigeria to date, with further amount pending. The US Department of Justice had as of now seized $480 million in 2014, preceding SERAP's new claim, despite the fact that this presently can't seem to be returned.

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(PTML) Vessels for Mar 2017

The first phase of the Grimaldi Terminal (PTML I) – which entailed the construction of a new 220mt berth (Berth 11) the paving of 220,000 sqm and the provision of all necessary infrastructure – was commissioned after only 16 months, in August 2006 by the then President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, GCFR.

Vessel Name: Grande Tema

Voyage Number: 1702

Type Voyage: Central Express

Expected Berthing Date: 05 Mar 2017

Rotation Number: 17/16 OF 01-MAR-2017

Seme Area Command has Generated N594m in January 2017

Seme Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has gathered N594 million as income in January 2017.

A customs officer has been captured for supposedly attempting to give cocaine smugglers a chance to cruise through investigations at JFK air terminal, experts said Tuesday.

Maritime Workers Shut Ports Operations

Individuals from Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, have closed operations at the ports across the country in solidarity with the administration of the union over...

PTML Advantages And Disadvantages

In February 2005 Grimaldi Lines through its subsidiary PTML signed an agreement with the Federal Government of Nigeria to Build, Operate and Transfer (BOT) a new terminal in Lagos.

The National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) has said that officers of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) who were as of late captured for contribution in the leeway of a holder heap of 661 pump activity rifles, which was later seized by the officers of the Federal Operations Unit (FOU) in Lagos, ought not

ICT Centre

No less than 300 officers of the Tin Can Island Port command of the Nigeria Customs Service have been prepared at the new Information Communication Technology (ICT) focus set up as of late by the command.

The discovery of 661 bits of pump-activity rifles by the officers of the Federal Operations Unit (FOU) A, Ikeja of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) is one out of the numerous contraband -

Custom Agents Accuse Shipping Firms of Violating WTO Convention

The National Council of Managing Directors of Licensed Customs Agents (NCMDLCA) has approached the Federal government to find a way to stop the current extra charges by delivery organizations called government and port assessments.

Maersk Line Tankers Confirms Order for 10 LR2 Ships

Maersk Tankers, part of the Danish transportation combination Maersk, has affirmed that it put in a request for ten LR2 item tanker vessels at China's Dalian Shipyard.

A French Naval Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV), Commandant L' Herminier, on Thursday called at the Nigerian Naval Dockyard in Lagos.

Vehicles are Still Smuggled Through The Land Border-(NCS)

The Zonal Coordinator Zone "A" of the Nigeria Customs Service, Assistant Comptroller General of Customs, Monday Abueh, has cautioned that there was no backpedaling on the ban of vehicles through land borders,

Nigeria will Increase Custom Duties for Tomato Imports and Waive Tariffs for Some Farming Equipments

Nigeria custom service (NCS) will increase custom duties for tomato imports and decrease duties for some cultivating equipment to regulate our local farming and interest in the agricultural segment, its exchange serve said on Wednesday.

The Nigerian Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit (Zone C) Owerri, has declared its make plans to put to a conclusion to contraband goods (CB) into the nation.

Kachikwu- Importation of Fuel Will be Stoped in 2019

Nigeria will quit bringing in refined petroleum items by 2019, Ibe Kachikwu, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, said on Tuesday in Abuja.

Customs- The 661 Riffle Container Was Not Examined Before Exit

Lagos—The Apapa Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has conceded that the container conveying 661 pump-activity rifles by the Federal Operations Unit, FOU, A, Ikeja of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, in Lagos a week ago was carried out of the ports without legitimate clearing process.

General Average in Shipping Terms

General Average is a lawful standard of Maritime Law under which, all gatherings who are included in that voyage, should be asked to relatively share the misfortunes coming about because of such give up.

Gil Kerlikowske

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske left his employment at the Department of Homeland Security at 12:01 p.m. on Jan. 20, similarly as Donald Trump was taking the promise of office.

Finnish Customs net, About Two Million Euros in Unpaid Liquor Charges From Online Stores

Online alcohol dealers have needed to fork out more than two million euros in unpaid duties to Finnish Customs. The payout takes after exceptional investigation of online liquor deals by traditions authorities that started in 2016.

Car dealers of caught vehicles at Benin republic ports, therefore of the government prohibition on importation of vehicles through the land fringes, have turned to carrying of the caught autos to Nigeria through unapproved courses.

Fear at Apapa Customs Command Over Contraband Rifles

There are unmistakable pressure and tension at the Apapa Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) over the arrival of 661 bits of pump-activity rifles at the Command.

Senates- Hameed Ali, You Should Wear Nigeria Custom Uniform

Hammed Ibrahim Ali is a retired Nigerian Army Colonel and current Comptroller General of The Nigerian Customs Service. He was appointed to the Comptroller General position by President Muhammadu Buhari on 27 August 2015.

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Weak Naira, Poor Portfolio Investment Drag Nigeria’s Capital Importation Down 47 Percent

Nigeria's capital importation fell by 46.86 for each penny from $9.64 billion in 2015 to $5.12 billion in 2016, the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, has said.

(PTML) Vessels for FEB 2017

Vessel Name: Grande Daka

Voyage Number: 1702

Type Voyage: Central Express

Expected Berthing Date: 28 Feb 2017

Rotation Number: 17/15 OF 24-FEB-2017

Vessel Name: Grande Luanda

Voyage Number: 1701

Type Voyage: Central Express

Expected Berthing Date: 15 Feb 2017

Rotation Number: 17/13 OF 10-FEB-2017

Vessel Name: Grande Senegal

Voyage Number: 1701

Type Voyage: North America

Expected Berthing Date: 07 Feb 2017

Rotation Number: 17/10 OF 04-FEB-2017

Vessel Name: Grande Lagos

Voyage Number: 1701

Type Voyage: Central Express

Expected Berthing Date: 09 Feb 2017

Rotation Number: 17/9 OF 03-FEB-2017

Vessel Name: Grande Cotonou

Voyage Number: 1701

Type Voyage: Central Express

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Expected Berthing Date: 20 Feb 2017

Rotation Number:17/12 OF 09-FEB-2017

Vessel Name: Repubblica del Brasile\Gr.Senegal

Voyage Number: 1701