Nigeria: Cabotage - Nimasa Issues Operational Guidelines to Oil Majors

6 March 2015

Lagos — The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, has issued new set of operational guidelines to International Oil Companies, IOCs, as it concerns engagement of seafarers and dockworkers as provided for in the Cabotage Act.

The new guidelines which were disclosed to the IOCs and other stakeholders at a sensitisation seminar on the implementation of the agency's statutory mandate on offshore operations in respect of maritime labour and cabotage, the Director, Maritime Labour Service of NIMASA, Juliana Gunwa, noted that same are to be fully complied with.

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