NIMASA Achieved 43.6% Increase Of Vessels Survey In 2021-Bashir Jamoh
LAGOS JANUARY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Director General of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr Bashir Jamoh has reiterated that his Agency has achieved 43.6 percent increase of vessels survey in 2021 when compared to what was recorded in 2020.
Bashir Jamoh who made the revelation during a press conference on Friday at the NIMASA headquarters, Apapa, Lagos while rolling out the performance and achievement of the Agency for the year 2021, disclosed that under condition survey, 489 vessels were surveyed in 2021 which is 43.6 percent higher than the 276 vessels survey carried out in year 2020.
According him, the achievement of this record is an indication of the agency’s seriousness in terms of flag state survey despite the global pandemic challenges.
For the port state control functions of the agency, the NIMASA Boss disclosed that 429 foreign vessels were boarded to ensure that each vessel maintained safety, pollution standards while at Nigeria ports and waters.
“The figure of vessels recorded under port state implementation for the year under review stands at 675 which is 24.2 % higher than the 510 vessels inspections carried out in 2020,” he stated.
He further disclosed that plans are on the pipeline for the privatisation of the moribund modular floating dockyard which will centre on Public Private Partnership (PPP).
While assuring stakeholders of the maritime industry that the floating dock will be operational before the end of first quarter of 2022, Jamoh said, “However, we don’t want to operate it by government or NIMASA alone but for Public Private Partnership. As usual, the issue of privatisation of any government property is not a product but a process.”
Although, Jamoh declined to name the
foreign players of the privatisation process, he, however disclosed that the Nigerian Ports Authority is a co
partner in the process with provision of its Continental Shipyard.
“We have been undergoing this process, and the DG ICRC was here for the first certificate,
telling us that privatisation of the floating dock is profitable,doable and
they gave us the go ahead to do that.
“We have also gone ahead with the Managing partner and co-pattern, which is
the Nigerian Ports Authority NPA, with the provision of Continental
Shipyard. We expect in no distance future maximum by February 2022,
privatisation must be approved by the Federal Executive Council because it’s a
national assets,” he stated.
He explained that the cost implications cannot be handled by the federal
government alone pointing out that privatisation would future aid the floating
dock operations, saying the foreign counterparts will be take up the class
conditions before the usage deployment.
The NIMASA Boss lamented number of failures recorded among Nigerian seafarers who sat for Certificate of Competency examinations in the year 2020.
He said that, in the officers cadre in 2020, 829 sat for the examination while total number of 264 candidates passed and certified forming a percentage of 32%.
He disclosed that the total number of 565 candidates failed which formed 68 percentage and making a total certificates revalidated for year 2021 to stand at 246.
According to Jamoh “You can see a very serious and negative figures in terms of our students seating for professional examinations of different certificates amounting to 68% failure”
He also disclosed that the agency is liaising with various institutions to see how best to address the gap.
In his words “There are so many factors attached to this, and we hope that before the middle of 2022, we would overcome these challenges
“In 2020, Officers examination, the total number that sat for it was 610, and total number that passed was only 251, forming a percentage of 41% pass, while 359 failed, amounting to 59% failure.
“The total number of certificates revalidated was 132, this means that in 2021, we had 246, a considerable increase as being recorded.
“For Officers ratings, the total number that sat for the exams were 1,251, out of this, 926 passed, representing 74% passed. The total number of candidates that failed is 325, representing 26% failure.
“The examination for ratings in
2021, the total number of students who sat for the exams are 1,327, this is a
sharp increase against the 2020 figure of 1,251.
The total number of candidates passed is 990 forming also 74% passed.
Total number of candidates failed is 337 with a percentage of failure of 26%”
he said.
He said that online seafarers certificates of Competency verification platform has been reactivated, which has helped in reducing the forgery of Nigerian certificates and enhanced the employment of Nigerians in the maritime sector.
According to him “We have been experiencing rejection and discrimination against Nigerian seafarers by ship owners both locally and internationally, this is why the agency decided to introduce the online seafarers certificates of Competency verification platform which allowed shipowners to access these candidates that passed our examinations directly from the comfort of their offices.”
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