Ships & Ports essay competition focuses on boosting indigenous shipping

Ships & Ports Communication, a leading maritime public relations firm, on Monday said it has started receiving entries into this year’s edition of the Annual Ships & Ports National Essay Competition.

This year, participants are expected to write on the theme: “How to boost indigenous participation in the shipping sector”.

Eucharia Udoka, coordinator of the competition, said it is open to every member of the public irrespective of age, sex, vocation or residence. “All entries must be typed with double spaced, not more than five typed pages and multiple entries by an individual will be disqualified.”

She said the Annual Ships & Ports National Essay Competition, which started in 2006, was set up to encourage people to spare some thoughts for the shipping sector and make intellectual contribution towards its growth and development.

“It aims at enabling Nigerians to appreciate the potentials of the nation’s maritime sector and ruminate over its significance to their means of livelihood and wellbeing,” she said.

Udoka said entries for this year’s competition opened on Monday November 23 and would close on Friday December 11 while prizes would be presented to winners on Thursday December 17, 2015 in Lagos.

“A total cash prize of N250, 000 cash will be given out to winners as we have consistently done over the past eight years. The best essay writer will smile home with N100, 000 while the rest will go to other winners as will be announced during the prize presentation ceremony,” she explained.

Uzoamaka Anagor-Ewuzie