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Budd’s Cameroon office has issued an updated port profile which includes important new information regarding armed guards at anchorage.

A recent regulation from the China Maritime Safety Administration updated the official list of polluting and hazardous liquid bulk cargoes.

The indefinite strike which brought Nigerian ports to a standstill from the morning of 3 July was suspended on 5 July pending the outcome of talks scheduled for Monday, 8 July 2019.

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.