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On 19 October 2026, President Julius Maada Bio stood at Freetown’s Queen Elizabeth II Quay to launch the Sierra Leone Ocean Shipping Company (SLOSCo). The ceremony, attended by the First…
For more than two decades, Nigeria collected a 2 percent surcharge on cabotage trade and watched the funds accumulate while its indigenous shipowners starved for capital. The Cabotage Vessel Financing…
Ghana’s Sahara Group acquires a new tanker bringing its fleet to six vessels By Andrew Mwangura On March 12, 2026, in the industrial port city of Ulsan, South Korea, a…