Nigeria, Singapore Seal Maritime Partnership
By Aiswarya Lakshmi
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) and the Maritime and Ports Authority of Singapore have held a bilateral meeting to seek areas of collaboration between the two maritime regulators at the sidelines of the Maritime Regulators Forum holding in Singapore.
The Director General of NIMASA, Dr. Dakuku Peterside met with his counterpart at the Maritime and Ports Authority (MPA) of Singapore, Andrew Tan where they pledged to collaborate for the benefit of both countries.
“Peterside met his counterpart at the MPA of Singapore, Andrew Tan, where they both pledged to collaborate for the benefit of both countries,” the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) quotes the statement as saying.
The director-general said that Nigeria had huge maritime potential, which had remained untapped and called on Singaporean investors to take advantage of the reform in Nigeria’s maritime sector to invest in the country.
He also requested partnership with the Singaporean authorities in various areas including technology acquisition for monitoring of the waterways, capacity building of personnel, support to upgrade maritime infrastructure a well as acquisition of more ocean going vessels for indigenous operators.