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As of yesterday, 3 July 2019, all Nigeria’s dockers have been on strike.

Africa’s oldest republic, Liberia, was first declared a nation in 1847 by the freeborn and freed black Americans who had emigrated there in 1821 to a country of their own. Their descendants became the ruling class of a nation whose indigenous population was excluded from government.

In Tunisia, 4, 5 and 6 June 2019 have been declared public holidays to celebrate the end of Ramadan.

The CGT workers’ union has announced one-day strikes in the port of Marseille-Fos.

As reported widely in previous years, vessels calling in Dakar may be subjected to Customs fines and/or detention for any alleged inaccuracies in the following documents and declarations:

A sit in which started at the port of Gabès on Tuesday, 19 March 2019, has effectively prevented any vessels from discharging the pet coke which fuels local cement works.

In the aftermath of another Friday of demonstrations in Algeria protesting against the continuing presidency of Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Budd’s Algiers office reports that to date, there have been no major effects on the country’s ports.

Following a series of postponements in 2018 (see our web news of 15/02/18, 09/04/18 and 03/08/18), the Indonesian government confirmed implementation of an amended version of Regulation 82/2017, starting with Article 4 which first came into force on a trial basis 1-28 February 2019. This trial period has now been extended up to the end of this month (March 2019).

Budd Tunisia is pleased to advise that the blockade preventing vessels from entering or leaving the port of Gabes ended at 21:00 LT yesterday (3 March 2019).

Vessels are being prevented from entering the port of Gabes by a blockade of fishing boats.