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In the vibrant downstream sector of the Nigerian maritime industry, largely dominated by foreign tanker ships, indigenous ship owners have had a minor role to play in the lighterage and seaborne transportation of imported refined petroleum products destined for the largest petroleum products consumer in Africa. This state of affairs, apart from resulting in capital flight and great loss of fiscal benefits to the nation, has forced Nigerian entrepreneurs desirous of investing in this sector to shy away for fear of being run out of business by the big foreign players, coupled with their limited capacity and lack of understanding of the dynamics of the international tanker trade.

We at SOPETRO MARINE have taken up the challenge to fill this vacuum by providing international standard maritime services coupled with our knowledge of the local environment in order to maintain a competitive advantage in this highly competitive trade. Today, that goal has been actualized as we not only offer a localized alternative to the services provided by foreign ship owners, we have become a role model as to how the nation's local content policy can be made to work in earnest.

As a well-run business, our shipping operations are governed by the highest professional standards in line with global best practices. At the core of these standards is our belief in customer satisfaction and continual improvement of our performance borne about by our respect for international shipping practices and procedures.  To improve our quality management systems, we aim to become ISO 9000 certified by Q2 2012.

SOPETRO MARINE has its eyes on the future. We believe in growing together with our clients while we continuously strive to profer solutions to optimize their marine petroleum transport operations. We are a forward-looking company and invite you into the future with us with total commitment to our goals and sincerity of purpose.