FLOATING DOCK: NPA To Hand Over Shipyard
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The nation’s marine sector may with some boast as the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), plans to handover its continental Shipyard to the Nigerian Maritime Administration Safety Agency (NIMASA) for hosting of the Agency’s modular floating dock.
Hadiza Bala-Usman, Managing Director of NPA disclosed this in Lagos when she hosted the Director-General of NIMASA, Bashir Jamoh, at NPA head office, opining that there is need to promote the NIMASA local dry dock to the maximum capacity by placing the NPA’s Continental Shipyard at the its disposal as a preferred location.
Bala-Usman revealed that NPA would go into an agreement with NIMASA on the handover of the Authority’s dockyard, jetty locations, and warehouses within the area to facilitate the installation of the modular floating dock.
She said; “We believe the floating dock is an integral part of the maritime sector. We commend NIMASA for starting this and NPA will continue to provide the necessary support as it relates to the aspect of our shareholding within the SPV being guided by the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission, ICRC.
“As it is, NPA has confirmed and reiterated that it will support and hand over those facilities within the next few weeks to enable NIMASA to conclude the movement of the modular floating dock from the Naval Dockyard to the Continental dockyard.
“This is a very welcome development for the sector and we look forward to patronising and using the dockyard facility for our vessels and other vessels of government agencies.”
The NIMASA boss had earlier said that the modular floating dock has come to stay, noting that they have concluded arrangements for its deployment and operation.
