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Captain medevaced off La Réunion
The "Maersk Calabar" contacted the MRCC La Réunion on Jan 12, 2017, reporting that the captain was in urgent need of medical assistance with severe abdominal pain. The ship headed for Réunion after MRCC direction and approached Le Port. At 4.50 p.m. the patient was medevaced by helicopter. He was transferred to the hospital at Saint-Denis. The vessel resumed the voyage from Lagos to Singapore.
Customs Chief Denies Exempting Containers from Mandatory Checks
Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Customs Area Controller (CAC), Apapa Area Command, Apapa, Lagos, Comptroller Charles Eporwei Edike has said that there are no containers allegedly ordered for the exemption from the mandatory NCS examination in his command. Nigeria’s premier port, Apapa Quay, which has Africa’s largest container terminal in its precinct is under the watch of Apap Area Command. Described as the busiest in the country as a result of the high volume of cargo that passes through it annually, the NCS High Command sees it as its poster command. The command was said to have exempted some containers from the mandatory NCS examination on the orders of the Comptroller General of Customs, Alhaji Inde Dikko Abdullahi. However, in an exclusive interview with THISDAY, Edike said the containers allegedly exempted from the mandatory NCS examination do not exist in his command. Edike said there was no iota of truth in the allegations making rounds in some quarters. Describing the allegations as lacking substance, malicious and misleading, the CAC maintained that there was no time the Comptroller General of Customs issued any directives to his officers restricting them from examining some containers and imports. According to him, the article titled “Don’t Inspect Some Containers, CG Customs Directs Officials” published in an online news medium was not true. Although MAERSK Calabar/CMA-CGM vessel with voyage number 8M120E berthed at the APM Terminal Apapa on Friday May 15, 2015 with 473 containers, none of the containers bore the alleged bill of laden numbers. Continuing, Edike said: “The containers quoted by the publication with bill laden numbers DEMO121817, DEMO121765, DRUN004554, DPPC101939 and QDGY004478 never arrived APM Terminal Apapa port on board MAERSK Calabar/CMA-CGM vessel as buttressed by the ship manifest”. He revealed that the second vessel, Grande Cotonou also mentioned in the report never berthed in Apapa port at any time. http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/customs-chief-denies-exempting-containers-from-mandatory-checks/216107/
Maersk Line names new WAFMAX ship after Calabar
World’s largest container shipping company, Maersk Line, has named one of its new 22 West Africa MAX (WAFMAX) container vessels after the Nigerian city of Calabar, the capital of Cross River State, Nigerian Daily Independent reports. The new 4,500 twenty feet equivalent unit (TEU) capacity ship was commissioned on Monday at an impressive naming ceremony at the Lagos Port Complex, Apapa by the wife of the governor of Cross River State, Mrs. Obioma Liyel-Imoke, who is also the ship’s Godmother. The new WAFMAX vessels are the largest container ship able to call West Africa and are claimed to be the most fuel-efficient, using 30 percent less fuel per container moved than the industry average on the Asia-Africa trade. Read more at http://www.independentngonline.com/DailyIndependent/Article.aspx?id=37631
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