The committee has been set up to come up with a workable
plan within 14 days.
This is even as the NIMASA Director General, Dr. Bashir
Jamoh, pledged the Agency’s commitment to ensuring that the operations of
Dangote Ports and refinery are not impeded by different regulatory instruments
under the provisions of the Cabotage law.
Jamoh made the assertions during a courtesy visit by a delegation from Dangote Port Operations, led by the Managing Director Dangote Port Operations, Mr Akin Omole to NIMASA.
He promised that the Agency will work with Dangote Ports to
also ensure the Group does not breach any regulation of the Federal Government
as regards Wet Cargo afreightment.
Both parties agreed to set up a working committee to address
the operational concerns at the refinery within 14 days.
“Though the coming on stream of the Dangote Refinery would
lead to a drop in NIMASA revenue, because ships importing petroleum products
would reduce drastically thus reducing the 3% freight levy collected by the
Agency. However, Nigerian economic growth and long term benefit to the Nigerian
masses is far better than immediate revenue for NIMASA,” he said.
He said, “We talked about business being done in a way that
there is no obstruction, no delay. “In shipping, a day’s delay is a huge cost,
we have an average of over $50,000 demurrage on a ship per day, so we want to
be sure that these kinds of delay are not experienced.”
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