LAGOS- The Indigenous Shipowners Association of Nigeria (ISAN) is to extend its membership to non shipowners and workers in the maritime industry.
The Secretary of the ISAN, Capt. Niyi Labinjo, told newsmen in Lagos that the association was thinking about admitting other maritime practitioners in line international practices.
Labinjo said that the membership of the association would now comprise shipowners and other stakeholders like maritime lawyers and ship agents.
He, however, explained that ISAN would also ensure that every ship owner in the country was a member of the association.
“We are expanding our membership through the creation of other categories of membership as in Malaysia and Singapore .
“We have already met along that line, but the policy has not been `neatly’ formalised
as it will come very soon,” the ISAN Secretary told NAN .
Labinjo described the on-going entrepreneurial training and capacity building workshop jointly organised by the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency
(NIMASA) and Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) as long overd.
He said that such collaboration was in line with what is obtained in India and China .
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