▪︎Dr Edmund Mbama Chilaka'
Dr Edmund Mbama Chilaka's book, Nigeria's Policy and Maritime Trade up to the Early 21st Century, is set for launch.
The book's presentation will hold during the Indigenous Cargo-carrying Advocacy Awards and Exhibition, scheduled for July 25 at Rockview Hotel Apapa, Lagos State.
Haboursandport.com, learned that in addition to the book launch proper, there will be awards to deserving captains and operators of the maritime and allied marine and transportation industries.
The awards, termed Nigerian Indigenous Cargo-Carrying Capacity Advocacy Awards, are meant to raise awareness of the law, NIMASA Act Sections 35-38, which provides for Indigenous carriers to carry Federal, State, and Local Government cargoes in international trade, and to recognize operators who are keen to bring this economic empowerment of Nigerian carriers into effect.
The book to be launched traced the origin and implementation of shipping policies in Nigeria from colonial times to the early 21st century, including the historical records of the shipping policy formulation and implementation in Nigeria, the successes and the failures.
It also contains chapters on the following institutions and milestones in Nigeria’s maritime trade and other modal applications:
The Federal Ministry of Transportation and its Agencies and Parastatals before the onset of the Marine and Blue Economy Ministry; the countertrade policy, as it was used from 1982 to 1987 by the Shagari, Buhari/Idiagbon, and Babangida administrations; the five modes of transport, intermodalism and multimodalism, and the history of interstate long-distance bus travel and cargo logistics in Nigeria; a brief history of international maritime statutory bodies, auxiliary bodies, stakeholder associations, and the thirty-one prominent and significant trade associations and unions currently active in Nigeria’s maritime sector, with their officers, and official contact details.
Two other topics were contributed by guest writers as follows – the activities of arbitration societies in the Nigerian merchant marine industry was authored by Pier Luigi Carrodano, immediate past Group Managing Director of the Comet Group of Companies, while the history of shipbuilding and repairs in Nigeria, with a case study of the Nigerdock at Snake Island Lagos, was written by Engineer Fidelis Akinayo and Engineer Nkpubre O. Nkpubre, ex-top managers at the company.
"Nigerian ship owners and operators can use it to compare the kind of sovereign support and state power that their foreign counterparts from the advanced maritime nations and even emerging economies routinely enjoy"
Using his experience of lecturing and mentoring students of transportation, logistics, and the history of transport at Lagos State University and the University of Lagos, Dr. Chilaka packaged the book as a major contribution to the recommended texts for classwork and assignments.
The topics satisfy many of the curriculum content and essential literature required for students’ projects and guides them to potential interviewees in the industry for information on writing their assessed projects, theses, or dissertations. The volume was also packaged as a snapshot of maritime history to inform future generations.
It's a must-read for students of transport and logistics in tertiary institutions, as well as office-based shipping managers and administrators.
Whereas policymakers and legislators will benefit from the hindsight and introspection offered by this book, Nigerian ship owners and operators can use it to compare the kind of sovereign support and state power that their foreign counterparts from the advanced maritime nations and even emerging economies routinely enjoy, which indigenous operators are yet to appropriate due to fickle-minded political leadership, mostly;
hence, they would be inspired to press for their rightful demands, going forward.
The book launch, indigenous cargo-carrying advocacy awards, and exhibitions shall be followed by seminar paper presentations on the second day of the event which will focus on the needful significant changes for achieving the envisaged objectives of nurturing indigenous cargo-carrying capacity.
The paper presenters will tackle the prospects and challenges of reactivating the NIMASA Act Sections 35-38 on indigenous carriage of Federal, State, and Local Government cargoes impelled by international trade.
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