Cabotage Act: NIMASA’s bold new steps to protect indigenous operators - Vanguard News Nigeria

The Coastal and Inland Shipping Act 2003, which came into force in 2004, aims “primarily to reserve the commercial transportation of goods and services within Nigerian coastal and inland waters to vessels flying the Nigerian flag, owned and crewed by Nigerian citizens, and built in Nigeria.”

Announcing the commencement of the crackdown, Dakuku made it clear that the Agency would no longer encourage the application of any form of waivers under the Cabotage Act, particularly for oil firm operations. He said such waivers hurt the growth of the maritime sector and the economy, generally.According to him, “Our laws forbid foreign vessels operating in our territorial waters, save for compliance with the Cabotage Act.

The Agency has trained many graduates under the Nigeria Seafarers Development Programme, with about 1, 600 cadets at various stages of completion of the programme, and 887 of them ready for sea-time training. NIMASA is aggressively dealing with the issue of sea-time training through full sponsorship, in partnership with some international institutions that have access to ocean-going training vessels.

NIMASA has made significant progress on the manning aspect of the Cabotage law implementation, with MAN producing the needed middle-level manpower for the sector and the Nigeria Seafarers Development Programme supplying the high-end manpower requirements. In the area of shipbuilding, many of the vessels have not been built in the country because of the challenge of steel and aluminium. But NIMASA is conducting an audit of shipyards in the country, in conjunction with Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, to see how they can be assisted to build capacity. The ultimate aim is to ensure that most of the vessels in the country are built in Nigeria.

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