The release of a new Safmarine shipping application for all mobile devices using the Android operating system will allow Safmarine customers to access and download essential shipping information from these devices, anywhere and at any time of day. The launch of this new application follows the release, in April 2011, of a similar e-Business application for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices.

According to Benoît Lebrun, Safmarine’s Global e-Business Manager, “This new application once again demonstrates Safmarine’s leadership in providing innovative business solutions to the shipping industry.

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The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources plans to auction about 1,000 tractors and implements purchased in 2007 at the cost of N6 billion.

The tractors were rotting away in six locations across the country including Moore Plantation, Ibadan and the Cotton and Agricultural Processor Ltd, Zaria.

Other locations are Strategic Grains Reserve (SGR) Gombe, Federal Secretariat, Owerri, Federal Agricultural Coordinating Unit (FACU) Sheda, in Gwagwalada and NTCDU, Enugu.

The tractors were purchased with part of the proceeds from the 10 per cent special levy on rice imports imposed by the Obasanjo administration.

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