NIMASA reaffirms commitment to clean offshore environment, deepens Blue Economy

By Daniel Abia, Port Harcourt

The Executive Director of Operations, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Engr. Fatai Adeyemi, has reiterated the agency’s committedness to maintaining a cleanable offshore situation arsenic Nigeria seeks to harness opportunities successful the bluish economy.

Adeyemi gave the assurance astatine a stakeholders’ sensitisation programme connected Offshore Waste Reception Facilities, themed “NIMASA’s Responsibilities and Statutory Obligation to Provide Offshore Waste Reception Facilities,” held successful Port Harcourt.

He stressed that Nigeria’s offshore situation plays a captious relation successful powering industries and creating livelihoods, but warned that biology challenges from offshore activities airs superior threats to marine ecosystems, navigational safety, and nationalist health.

“The nonsubjective of today’s programme is to summation consciousness and fortify collaboration among each stakeholders—operators, regulators, work providers, and assemblage representatives—to guarantee that discarded reception and disposal practices conscionable the highest biology standards. By doing so, we are protecting our oceans portion aligning with planetary champion practices and maritime regulations,” Adeyemi said.

Also speaking, NIMASA’s Director of Marine Environment Management, Dimowo Heaky, described the inaugural arsenic a large measurement toward safeguarding water wellness and preventing intentional pollution. He emphasised that harmful discarded specified arsenic oily residues, sewage, garbage, and noxious liquids stay important threats to coastal communities and the planetary climate.

“Our ngo is to equip stakeholders with the cognition and champion practices required to forestall marine pollution. MARPOL is much than an planetary convention—it is simply a pact betwixt humanity and the oceans that prolong us,” Heaky said.

On his part, the Managing Director/CEO of XPO Marine, concessionaire for the Eastern Region Offshore Waste Reception Facilities, Mr. Wellington Agharese, highlighted the strategical value of the portion to Nigeria’s lipid and state operations.

“As concessionaire, this work is not conscionable operational but a corporate committedness to safeguard our waters portion enabling sustainable offshore vigor development. Collaboration with regulators, IOCs, NOCs, and indigenous operators is indispensable to physique a exemplary of biology compliance that strengthens Nigeria’s competitiveness successful the planetary vigor market,” Agharese said.

The lawsuit underscored NIMASA’s resoluteness to beforehand biology sustainability, enforce compliance with the MARPOL Convention, and presumption Nigeria’s maritime assemblage arsenic a exemplary of liable signifier successful the planetary vigor and shipping industries.

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