Coastal and Inland Shipping (Cabotage) Act (No. 5 of 2003). Country/Territory Nigeria Document type Legislation Date 2003 Source FAO, FAOLEX Long titleAn Act to restrict the use of Foreign Vessels in Domestic Coastal Trade to promote the development of Indigenous Tonnage and to establish a Cabotage Vessel Financing Fund and for Related Matters. Subject Fisheries, Sea Keyword Fishing vessel Registration Navigation Geographical area Africa, North Atlantic, Western Africa Abstract This Act provides, among other things, in sections 3 to 6 that a vessel other than a vessel wholly owned and manned by a Nigerian citizens, built and registered in Nigeria shall not engage in the domestic coastal carriage of cargo and passengers within the coastal territorial inland waters, or any point within the waters of the exclusive economic zone of Nigeria and that a vessel of whatever type or size shall not engage in domestic trading in the inland waters of Nigeria except as a vessel that is wholly owned by Nigerian citizens. In section 22 the Act requires specified types of vessels, including fishing trawlers, to register in the Special Register for Vessels and Ship Owning Companies engaged in Cabotage. Full text English Website www.nigeria-law.org