Maritime Nigeria

Main Menu

  • Home
  • News
  • Interviews
  • Maritime Info
  • Photo Gallery
  • Fact
  • Profiles

logo

Header Banner

Maritime Nigeria

  • Home
  • News
    • Nigeria Set To Host IMO Delegation On Working Visit

      Sep 5, 2025
      0
    • MOWCA Secures $1.3million Scholarships

      Sep 2, 2025
      0
    • DG NIMASA Task Staff To Deliver On Presidential Priorities

      Sep 2, 2025
      0
    • Minister Commends Academy On Policy Drive and Vision

      Aug 27, 2025
      0
    • Dantsoho: Driving Growth, Inclusivity, Sustainability and Improvements In Port Operations

      Aug 25, 2025
      0
    • MWUN Salute Tinubu, Partners AMJON

      Aug 22, 2025
      0
    • NSC Decry Paucity of Funds, Calls For Adequate Preparations For AfCFTA

      Aug 22, 2025
      0
    • CGC Takes Reputation Campaign To Zone C

      Aug 18, 2025
      0
    • CUSTOMS: Kebbi Command Celebrate B'Odogwu

      Aug 18, 2025
      0
  • Interviews
    • Nigeria Takes Leadership Of MOWCA

      Nov 18, 2021
      0
    • APM Participates in UK Trade Expo

      Oct 31, 2021
      0
    • Reps Seek Admission at MAN

      Dec 7, 2020
      0
    • NIMASA URGE SHIP OWNERS TO RENEW CABOTAGE LICENSES

      Oct 5, 2020
      0
    • FG Sacks Aboloma As NAIC Gets New EDs

      Aug 28, 2020
      0
    • Britain Celebrate Nigerian In Covid Efforts

      Jul 26, 2020
      0
    • Zuckerberg Backs Trump Against Twitter

      May 28, 2020
      0
    • NAFDAC DG Sheds Light On Chloroquine, Herbals, Masks and Covid19

      May 12, 2020
      0
    • Reps Threaten MDAs

      Feb 24, 2020
      0
  • Maritime Info
    • 2023 POP: Minister Task Cadets On Blue Economy

      Dec 15, 2023
      0
    • Rector, Trainees Excited, Laud FG On Modern Academy

      Jan 26, 2023
      0
    • Buhari Redeploys Minister As NPA, NIMASA, MAN, Others Get New Boards

      Apr 7, 2022
      0
    • World Bank Endorse Nigerian Ports, Partners Navy On Capacity Building

      Mar 19, 2022
      0
    • NIMASA Commend Nigerian Navy, Reassures On Floating Dock

      Feb 9, 2022
      0
    • MAN Unveils Lighthouse For Training of Cadets

      Jan 27, 2022
      0
    • shipping

      Singapore Strait Dangerous To Shipping-ReCAAP

      Jan 24, 2022
      0
    • Lekki Deep Sea Port Will Increase Port Efficiency-Amaechi

      Jan 24, 2022
      0
    • Fair Competition: NSC Partners FCCPC For Effectiveness

      Jan 21, 2022
      0
  • Photo Gallery
    • SERAP Calls for Probe of Entire Privatization Processes 1999-2011

      Dec 4, 2017
      0
    • IMO Election: South Africa, Kenya, Liberia, Morroco and Egypt Make Category C

      Dec 2, 2017
      0
    • Maersk Ship on Fire as Coy Launches Six Container Lifting Tech

      Nov 2, 2016
      0
    • Captured Seafarers Languish In Captivity without Ransom

      Nov 1, 2016
      0
    • Niger Delta: Militants Ask FG to Include Former Agitators in Negotiations

      Nov 1, 2016
      0
    • Self-Audit: NIMASA Set to Review 3% Freight Charge

      Nov 1, 2016
      0
    • Recession: Japanese Shipping Companies to Merge

      Oct 31, 2016
      0
    • NSC Partners ICS on Capacity Building

      Oct 31, 2016
      0
    • AGAIN, APAPA CUSTOMS SURPASS MONTHLY TARGET WITH N33B COLLECTION

      Oct 5, 2016
      0
  • Fact
    • Maritime Police Boss Celebrate Workers

      May 1, 2025
      0
    • “VIN Is A Trade Tool, Not Punitive”-Customs

      Mar 2, 2022
      0
    • Blackmailers, False Publishers and Their Agents: Court Clears Rector

      Feb 18, 2022
      0
    • MAN Unveils Lighthouse For Training of Cadets

      Jan 27, 2022
      0
    • "APM Terminals Is Beyond Moving Boxes Around"-Laursen

      Jan 24, 2022
      0
    • MWUN: Welfare, Safety Our Priority-Adeyanju

      Dec 27, 2021
      0
    • Reversing the Trend: Koko Breaks Record at NPA

      Dec 24, 2021
      0
    • Minister Demands More From MAN At Passing Out Parade

      Dec 20, 2021
      0
    • MARITIME NIGERIA TASK NIMASA ON MARITIME DEVELOPMENT

      Dec 15, 2021
      0
  • Profiles
    • CMA CGM Brings AI Onboard

      Jun 5, 2018
      0
    • Customs Notify 577 Officers of Retirement by Eguono Odjegba

      Jan 12, 2018
      0
    • Over 100 Persons Feared Dead in Mediterranean Ship Wreck

      Nov 3, 2016
      0
    • Ballast Water: Panama Signs Up

      Oct 24, 2016
      0
    • Ist Half Report: Customs generate N385.7bn revenue

      Aug 15, 2016
      0
    • Minister/MD Speeches at the Launch of NPA's CCCIS

      Jul 23, 2016
      0
    • Face off Imminent as Dakuku Warn IOCs to Sit Up or Stay ...

      Jul 22, 2016
      0
    • Hadiza, Welcome to NPA

      Jul 16, 2016
      0
    • Habib Abdullahi Sacked Again from NPA

      Jul 12, 2016
      0
  • Nigeria Set To Host IMO Delegation On Working Visit

  • MOWCA Secures $1.3million Scholarships

  • DG NIMASA Task Staff To Deliver On Presidential Priorities

  • Minister Commends Academy On Policy Drive and Vision

  • Dantsoho: Driving Growth, Inclusivity, Sustainability and Improvements In Port Operations

Maritime Info
Home›Maritime Info›MT APECUS Engaged in Illegalities-NIMASA

MT APECUS Engaged in Illegalities-NIMASA

By Editor
May 20, 2019
1233
0
Share:

Has No Valid Permit

Changes Name and Flag

No Documentation

Switch off her Automatic Identification System (AIS) in order to avoid detection

A Palau flagged Tanker, MT APECUS, hijacked off the coast of Bonny, Nigeria last month has been conducting trading activities in Nigerian waters since 2014 without permit, the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) said Monday.

Nevertheless, the agency said it was committed to rescue the abducted seven crew, comprising five Indian nationals and two other individuals of unspecified nationality.

This it said is being done in collaboration with the Nigerian Navy, the Indian High Commission in Nigeria and other security agencies.

The hijack of the vessel, with IMO no.7333810 and call sign no. T8WU, occurred on the 19th of April, 2019.

The DG of NIMASA, Dr Dakuku Peterside while condemning the hijack and sympathizing with the victims, pledged the Agency’s commitment to the rescue, working with other relevant government security organisations.

But he also disclosed that: “Preliminary investigations carried out by NIMASA into the vessel involved has thrown up several unresolved facts. Firstly, the MT APECUS has been conducting trading activities in Nigerian waters since 2014 without any valid permits or documentation”.

It was further found that the vessel has changed name and the flag under which she operates on no fewer than a combined fifteen (15) recorded instances with an additional five changes in call sign since 1993 and four MMSI changes, which all point to her suspected involvement in illegal activities.

Before the vessel was hijacked, it was spotted in Lome, Togo on the 26th of February, 2019 for an hour, Tema, Ghana for two hours on the 27th of February, 2019 and Lagos anchorage for twenty nine minutes on 2nd April 2019 until her eventual hijack on the 19th of April.

Reports also indicate the vessel was in the habit of switching off her Automatic Identification System (AIS) in order to avoid detection and had done the same thing prior to being attacked which had made locating her whereabouts extremely difficult. There is no clarity on her business in Bonny area where the incident occurred.

Piracy and other Maritime Offences Bill, facilitated by NIMASA, has been passed by the House of Representatives and had undergone the second reading at the Senate, which NIMASA believe will help fight issue of Piracy in our waters.

NIMASA remains optimistic that the Bill, when passed into law will give the Agency along with the Nigerian Navy and other security agencies the necessary impetus and framework to further fight all forms of maritime insecurity in Nigerian territorial waters and the greater Gulf of Guinea maritime domain.

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • More
  • Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)

Related

Previous Article

Trans Forcados Pipeline On Fire

Next Article

Buhari Laud His Ministers

0
Shares
  • 0
  • +
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Related articles More from author

  • FeaturedMaritime InfoNews

    Maritime Threats: Russia Procures Additional Ships and Weapons

    Jul 27, 2020
    By Editor
  • FactFeaturedMaritime InfoNewsPhoto Gallery

    NIMASA welcomes IMO Audit Team to Nigeria

    Jun 7, 2016
    By Editor
  • FeaturedMaritime InfoNews

    FG Reiterate Commitment To Shipping, Workers’ Welfare

    Aug 19, 2020
    By Editor
  • FeaturedMaritime InfoNews

    MAN Oron Vital to Our Maritime Nation Status, Nigeria Deserves Category C Seat at IMO-Amaechi

    Nov 20, 2017
    By Editor
  • Maritime Info

    Another Tanker Missing in Gulf of Guinea

    Feb 5, 2018
    By Editor
  • FeaturedMaritime InfoNews

    US IMPOUND $27M FOUND IN CARGO VESSEL

    Sep 3, 2020
    By Editor

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

  • News

    Nigeria loses N780bn to oil thieves daily – Don

  • News

    NLNG: Three Finalist For 2024 Literature Prize Emerge

  • News

    Global Seafarers High Morale: Nigeria Takes Lead

Looking For Something?

Read From

  • Agriculture
  • Customs Operations
  • Fact
  • Featured
  • Interviews
  • Maritime Info
  • News
  • One Question
  • Photo Gallery
  • Profiles
  • sports

Just In

News

Nigeria Set To Host IMO Delegation On Working Visit

Sequel to Nigeria’s maritime dominance and strategic position in Africa, economic power and rightghtful quest for a Category C Council seat at the IMO, the Secretary-General of the International Maritime ...
  • B’Odogwu: Apapa Collects N215b

    By Editor
    Sep 2, 2025
  • MOWCA Secures $1.3million Scholarships

    By Editor
    Sep 2, 2025
  • DG NIMASA Task Staff To Deliver On Presidential Priorities

    By Editor
    Sep 2, 2025
  • Minister Commends Academy On Policy Drive and Vision

    By Editor
    Aug 27, 2025
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
© 2013 Maritime Nigeria | All Rights Reserved