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Shell’s 400,000 Bpd Forcados Export Terminal Commences Export By Month End
By: Chika Izuora
The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) said, the Forcados oil terminal will resume export operations by the end of the month ‘when ongoing essential repairs would have been completed.’
“In addition to the repairs, we are working to remove and clamp theft points on the onshore pipelines to ensure full crude oil receipt at the terminal,” SPDC’s media relations manager, Abimbola Essien-Nelson, said in a company statement.
Essien-Nelson outlined in the statement that active illegal connections to the SPDC joint venture’s production lines and facilities in the western Niger Delta, as well as the inactive illegal connection to the onshore section of the 48” Forcados Export Line, are in the company’s ongoing programme to remove illegal connections on the pipelines that feed the terminal.
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'How NIMASA, NPA are contributing to fall in value of naira, high petrol price'
By: Emmanuella Anokam
The Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria has said the refusal of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) and the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) to obey Federal Government’s directive on Naira transactions for ports charges is contributing to the fall in value of naira and the rise in price of petrol
This is contained in a statement by Mahmood Tukur, Vice Chairman II, Depots and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria (DAPPMAN) on Sunday in a statement.
The federal government through its downstream regulator, and based on agreement reached with stakeholders, directed ports charges to be collected in Naira.
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Filipino seafarer jailed 20 years for brutal murder on MSC Ravenna
By: Ships & Ports
A Filipino seafarer, who fatally stabbed a fellow crew member on the 14,000 TEU container ship MSC Ravenna en route from Shanghai to Los Angeles, was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.
Michael Dequito Monegro, 44, a resident of the Philippines, was sentenced by United States District Judge Dale S. Fischer, who said in court at a hearing on 7 November that Monegro’s “conduct was unusually heinous, cruel and brutal.”
The murder took place on 20 September 2020, when the Liberian-flagged container vessel was approximately 80 nautical miles from Southern California.
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MSC accused of abusing dominant position in Brazil
By: Ships & Ports
The Brazilian Association of Port Terminals (ABTP) has filled a legal request at the Administrative Economic Defense Council (CADE) of Brazil to investigate the impact of the world’s largest container shipping line, Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) on the country’s economy.
ABTP accused the shipping giant of abusing its domination of the container shipping sector in Brazil to give advantages to its own terminals, raising costs and reducing options for the flow of cargo in the country.
ABTP noted that MSC and its 2M Alliance partner Maersk are responsible for 79% of containers (53% directly and another 26% through commercial agreements) transported along the Brazilian coast.
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