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Major stakeholders within the maritime sector are anticipated to converge in Lagos, subsequent week, to study the coverage, technical, and financial challenges bedevilling indigenous ship operations in Nigeria.
The Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, is anticipated to be the Special Guest of Honour on the second Maritime Technical Summit, slated for May 22nd, on the Eko Hotels and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos.
The Summit, themed, “Ship Operations in Nigeria: Policy, Technical, Financial Challenges and Solutions: The Perspective of the Association of Marine Engineers and Surveyors (AMES),” will proffer attainable options to these points.
Speaking on the nitty-gritty of the occasion, the Vice President of AMES, and Chairman Planning Committee for the Summit, Yinka Okunade, noticed that it's normally to determine an explicit drawback going through the maritime business, and recommend options to the related authorities.
Okunade described the theme of the Summit as very related, as it's constructed round points affecting the maritime business, which is able to entice eminent personalities to deal with the matters which were fastidiously chosen.
Also, the President of AMES, Charles Uwadia, disclosed that the Executive Secretary, Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC), Hassan Bello, has accepted to accomplice with them on the Summit, and has additionally volunteered to current one of many key papers on insurance policies.
He defined, “We even went a step additional, Greg Ogbeifun, Starzs, who's the President of SOAN goes to discuss on ship acquisition and the challenges.
We are even bringing Diamond Bank to give us a perception into the issues they're having in ficing ship acquisition and upkeep, as a result of that is one space we're having a lot of issues when it comes to capability constructing. So, the Diamond Bank has agreed and accepted to be a part of the occasion, and in addition to current a paper on that day.
“In fact, we have our own respectable Czar in the industry, Chief Adebayo Sarumi, is going to be there also to moderate the technical session, and at the end of the day, they will identify the problems, and we now sit down to chart a way forward,” he stated.