1. EXAMINATION OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF INLAND WATERWAYS TRANSPORTATION
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EXCERPT FROM THE STUDY
In water transportation the vessels used for carrying passengers vary in sizes. The number of persons carried per trip varies depending on the size of the boat. However, water transportation vessels are known for carrying large number of persons. For instance, in the fleet of the Inland Water Transportation Department in Lagos (IWD), the ferry can carry one hundred and twenty five passengers and the largest can carry one thousand at a ti...
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2. CONCESSION AS A STRATEGIC TOOL FOR PORTS EFFICIENCY: AN ASSESSMENT OF THE NIGERIAN PORTS
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Background Of The Study
In today’s global commerce, seaports or maritime transport play an important role of being many nations’ major gateway for international trade and are a good instrument for measuring the economic health of a nation (Ogunsiji & Ogunsiji, 2010, UNCTAD, 2008). The ports have considerable influence on the volume and conditions of trade as well as the capacity for economic development of nations still developing. I...
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3. ASSESSMENT OF SHIPPING TRADE AND ITS EFFECT ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NIGERIA 1976-2015
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BACKGROUND
Shipping has long been considered as a powerful accelerator for socioeconomic growth. Adams Smith observed in 1776 that "a firm operating in a country town with no connections to the outside world will never attain high levels of efficiency since its tiny market will restrict the degree of specialization." Because shipping is one of the most cost-effective and efficient ways of long-distance transportation, it has been at the va...
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4. EXAMINATION OF MARITIME SECURITY AND THE APPLICATION OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
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BACKGROUND OF STUDY
Port and maritime activities throughout the world, together with its accompanying facilities and infrastructure, collectively pose one of the single largest unmet threats to the economic and national security of countries in the modern period. The technology involved in ports and maritime operations is mostly to blame for the difficulty that is associated with ensuring their safety. Ports are often huge, asymmetrical operations t...
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5. AN ASSESSMENT OF APAPA PORT ACCESS
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ABSTRACT
Transportation and traffic problems particularly, traffic congestion, delays, parking space difficulties, environmental pollution which started to manifest in Lagos since the early 1980's have continued to increase at an alarming rate and have now reached an abominable stage in recent years. It is pertinent to highlight the relevance of creek road in Apapa. Any traffic hindrance on it will definitely generate a lot of hiccups in the logistics busine...
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6. THE EFFECT OF LOGISTICS INDUSTRY ON THE ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NIGERIA (A CASE STUDY OF THE MARITIME INDUSTRY)
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Statement of the Problem
Policy inconsistency has been one of the problems encountered in maritime sector in Nigeria, the issue of inadequate policy formulation and implementation; hence the contribution of the maritime sector to economic growth has been a subject of debate. Concessionaires in Nigeria’s seaports situated at Warri, Port Harcourt, Lagos, Calabar, Onne, and Sapele have recently listed obstacles to efficient operation. Inadequate...
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7. THE APPLICATION OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN THE PREVENTION OF POLLUTION IN THE MARITIME INDUSTRY (A CASE STUDY OF RIVERS PORT)
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ABSTRACT
Over the years there have been stories of notorious oil spillages in the Niger Delta regions of the country, deposition of deadly industrial wastes into the seas at Lagos Lagoons and beaches, deposition of Biological and medical wastes in the Nigerian sea borders etc. which have led to death of sea and land animals including man in most cases as well as other environmental hazards; yet the perpetrators’ of such dastardly acts are most times not appreh...
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8. ANALYSIS OF DETERMINANTS OF MARINE ACCIDENTS IN NIGERIA'S INLAND WATERWAYS
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Abstract
Cases of marine vessel accident involving personal injury, deaths, property and environmental damage have grown in tandem with increased oil prospecting and other commercial seaborne transportation activities in Niger-Delta/coastal regions of Nigeria. The incidence of marine vessel casualties and associated risk factors generate serious concern as further empirical evidence suggests that between 75-96% of marine vessel casualties are caused...
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9. IMPACT OF PORT CONCESSION IN NIGERIA
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ABSTRACT
Human relations within an organization cease only on employee. This study The aim of this study was to investigate the Impact of Global Financial Crisis on the Nigerian Banking Sector – A Case study of UBA PLC, UBN PLC and OCEANIC Bank PLC, respectively. The global financial crisis is occasioned by banks imprudence, too high/excessive compensation packages to banks executives, reckless bank lending, lose regulatory regimes and several unregulated...
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10. THE IMPACT OF IMPROVED INFRASTRUCTURE AND EFFICIENT CARGO DELIVERY IN NIGERIA PORT USING CALABAR PORT COMPLEX AS A CASE STUDY
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Abstract
This report examines the impact of improved infrastructure and efficient Cargo Delivery in Nigeria Port (A case study of Calabar Port Complex). The research also carried out a review of related literature in chapter to give the study the necessary theoretical background for the research work. The literature the Background of Marine Infrastructural Development, Current Marine Infrastructural Development in Nigeria, Channel Marking, buoys and lighthouse devel...
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