NIMASA backs digital transformation

The Director-Normal of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Security Company, Dr Dayo Mobereola, has described digital transformation as a catalyst for rising the variety of girls collaborating within the maritime trade.

Dr Mobereola mentioned this in Lagos at a regional symposium organised by NIMASA in collaboration with the Kofi Annan Worldwide Peacekeeping Coaching Centre, Ghana, on ‘Digitalisation and the Empowerment of Girls within the Maritime Sector of West Africa: Alternatives, Challenges and Pathways’.

The Deputy Director and Head of Public Relations at NIMASA, Osagie Edward, disclosed this in a press release on Wednesday obtained by The PidomNigeria.

The NIMASA DG, who was represented on the occasion by the company’s Government Director of Finance and Administration, Chudi Offodile, famous that digitalisation is “able to considerably correcting the imbalance of ladies’s under-representation within the maritime trade by means of the creation of latest alternatives and removing of conventional limitations.”

“Digitalisation acts as the good equaliser, shifting the trade’s centre of gravity from bodily power to mental agility and technical precision. By means of digital platforms and e-learning techniques, a younger girl in a rural West African city can entry the identical coaching modules as anybody within the extra superior components of the world,” Mobereola mentioned.

In line with him, the nation’s maritime sector is present process a profound transformation pushed by digital applied sciences, automation, information techniques and good logistics.

Mobereola added that, internationally, digitalisation is reshaping how ships function, how ports operate and the way maritime administrations regulate and ship providers.

He reaffirmed NIMASA’s dedication to inclusive maritime improvement, emphasising that Nigeria is decided to make sure that the maritime sector turns into a benchmark for gender inclusivity and digital excellence within the area.

In his remarks, the Deputy Commandant of KAIPTC, Brigadier Normal Zibrim Bawah, highlighted the strategic significance of the Gulf of Guinea maritime area and the necessity to make sure that girls play a higher function in shaping its future, notably within the period of digital transformation.

“Girls’s participation in maritime affairs has traditionally been restricted by socio-cultural and institutional limitations, but their involvement brings various views and options important for holistic maritime governance,” he added.

The symposium, supported by the Ministry of Overseas Affairs of Denmark and the Inter-Regional Coordination Centre for Maritime Security and Safety within the Gulf of Guinea, introduced collectively senior authorities officers, maritime professionals, lecturers, girls’s teams and members of the media from throughout West Africa to deliberate on methods for strengthening girls’s participation within the maritime trade by means of digital transformation.

Individuals on the symposium are anticipated to look at key points, together with digital innovation in maritime governance, gender inclusion in maritime safety operations, capability constructing for girls in digital maritime abilities, and coverage frameworks that promote gender equality and advance girls’s empowerment throughout the Gulf of Guinea area.

The engagement can also be anticipated to strengthen collaboration amongst regional and worldwide stakeholders in advancing inclusive and sustainable maritime improvement in West Africa.