Nigerian Cabotage: Its Policy, Prospects and Challenges
The purpose of this study is to critically examine the Nigerian Cabotage Law and its policy. It will look at what Nigeria stand to benefit by enacting the Law. It is a fact that some countries attempt certain policies in order to experiment, as to whether it will work for them and then they tap into its exploits. Others venture into specific policies because some have successfully experimented and they believe they can do it too. Whatever category Nigeria falls into, the study will attempt to analyze the policy upon which the Nigerian Cabotage law is anchored. It will examine the issue of Ministerial waiver in the event that there are no indigenous capacities to carry out the objectives as spelt out in the Act. It will also examine the various challenges encountered at different stages of implementation. The study contends that what Nigeria stand to gain by Cabotage transcends what she will lose if the law is not given birth to. It concludes that if the implementation guidelines are jealously adhered to and the enforcements are strictly followed, Cabotage has the potentials of becoming a great rivalry to Oil and Gas Industry in Nigeria. Keywords: Nigeria, Cabotage, Maritime, NIMASA, Shipping
Cabotage Act and the Challenges of Nigerian Shipping Lines in Sub-Sahara Africa
This article is set to investigate the factors militating against the utilization of the Nigerian Cabotage Act 2003 to revamping the ailing shipping industry, which is the fulcrum of the Nigerian major oil and gas sector of the economy. Secondary data, generated through document reading, were used for the analysis. A critical study of both the Act and shipping lines revealed inherent structural defects (poor administration and technology respectively), which are dissonant with the primary aims of developing and protecting local content in shipping industry. The complexities of this resulted to foreign re-infiltration of the Nigerian shipping industry with consequent capital loss. With the existing scenario and the ultimate necessity to overhaul the industry to full benefits of Nigeria and her entire citizenry, there is need to review the Act in order to accommodate the dynamism and interdependence of the modern global market. Also, efforts should be made to create an enabling ground for Nigerians to adequately adjust and take advantage of the Act. These, unarguably, are the way forward to repositioning and guaranteeing a viable, competitive and profitable world class national shipping industry .
Technology Transfer out of Germany after 1945
Technology Transfer Out of Germany studies the movement of technology and scientists between East Germany and the Soviet Union, and West Germany and the Western Allies, using documented examples and case studies, and asks whether the confiscation of documents, equipment and scientists can really be considered to be a form of 'intellectual reparation.'