Our Ships

Agency Attendance & Husbandry

Bluebridge’s professional vessel attendance policies ensure the fast, accurate handling of all details for ships that engage the Bluebridge agency - expediting ship arrivals and departures, loading and unloading, and all ship operations in port.

Agency attendance and husbandry is an honorable profession which focuses on taking care of a vessel and her crew who are far from home. Bluebridge has the highest level of commitment to this endeavor: our employees are indeed, the key to this tradition.

We are proud that we have extremely low employee turnover in all divisions of our business. Our Managers average over 20 year’s agency experience in Operations and Accounting in the industry. Senior Management is also active in the day-to-day operations of the company.

Bluebridge employees are leaders in all aspects of the port community throughout Nigeria: they play key roles in security initiatives, maritime and port/trade organizations, and serve as marine sector advisors to Petrolex and other oil & gas entities.

All Bluebridge agents are specially and extensively trained to become local experts of their individual port of service. Each agent is experienced and expert in local as well as federal Nigerian Customs, Immigration, NIMASA and other pertinent government agency regulations that affect ships, crewmen and vessel cargoes. Our knowledgeable staff maintains up to date information on port facilities, repair resources, marine equipment providers, and medical facilities and are equipped to provide immediate transmission of all applicable voyage information and timings.

Bluebridge operatives provide special services for tankers, LPG carriers, RoRo and offshore rigs. Bluebridge's wide range of extra services for ships and crews includes, but is not limited to, the areas of ship repair, crew medical needs, and cargo disposition.

Voyage Accounting/Finance & Reporting

Our paper and e-flow system eliminates misidentified port call charges and speeds up vendor and client inquires, acting as a key identifier for required reports. Bluebridge's voyage accounting and finance system provides instant and accurate cost analysis - by port, vessel and service - offering our clients security and a distinct competitive advantage.

Bluebridge’s Finance Department is uniquely poised to meet our clients’ needs. As with all Bluebridge shipping personnel, the Finance Department pride themselves on always meeting our client’s needs through continual improvement, preventative action, and teamwork.

Bluebridge’s system facilitates a time tested paper and e-flow system, helping to eliminate misidentified port call charges, speeding up vendor and client inquires, and acting as a key identifier for required reports.

Bluebridge’s Finance Department coordinates all funding activity and reconciles those funds to each port call. Payment of port call expenses and accounts receivable reconciliation is done with a focus on our Principal’s needs. We utilize online banking for reporting and money movement. These online services are password accessed utilizing multi level password protection to reduce fraud exposure.

Cargo Forwarding

Bluebridge offers forwarding of all approved export cargoes for shipment by sea or air.

Customs Clearance

An efficient and highly professional team ensures that all kinds of approved goods imported into Nigeria by air or sea, are cleared with the customs, with minimal time and cost.

TIME CHARTER

We transport various products (clean petroleum products, construction materials, agricultural produce, etc) with our low draft inland/coastal tankers and barges.

All vessels in our fleet comply with IMO/NIMASA regulations on double hulls, SOLAS Convention and ISM Code, evidencing the premium we place on safety and pollution prevention.

All vessels in our fleet comply with IMO/NIMASA regulations on double hulls, SOLAS Convention and ISM Code, evidencing the premium we place on safety and pollution prevention.

• The vessel can be given out for an agreed period of time
• Rates are negotiable
• We operate the vessel on trades directed by charterer
• We are responsible for capital and fixed operating costs
• Any variable operating cost will be passed on to the charterer