Project Management in the Shipping Industry

Abstract

Every individual and business depends on shipping industry,shipping industry is the movement of people,raw material and finished good. Although the shipping industry provides the link between tourism generating and destination region the industry’s role as an agent in destination development has been largely over looked. If the ability of tourism to travel  to preferred destination is inhibited by inefficiencies in the shipping system there is some likelihood that they will seek alternative destination. Containerized shipping is of paramount importance to the development of Nigerian economy, hence, the need for logistics and port development in our seaports. With reference to Apapa port, which is Nigeria’s largest port in containerized shipping. However the port is being saddled with inadequate transport infrastructural development that undermines its potentialities. The study, through qualitative and quantitative approaches, has proposed logistics infrastructure at which the congestion could be reduce, as well as, the port realizes its full potentialities within the framework of business investment for the country. The study recommends amongst many other that the concept could only be realized through Private Finance Initiatives (PFI) that incorporates societal marketing principles. This will promote the use of intermodality and offer increasing range of services to prospective customers, consequently, encourages synergies between the ports and various industrial area within geo-political zones in the country, which will equally be incorporated in policy making at both port and national level.