Effective Aug. 19, the Coast Guard has removed conditions of entry on vessels arriving in U.S. waters from ports in Nigeria.
In 2014 the Coast Guard determined that Nigeria was not implementing effective anti-terrorism measures in its ports. Accordingly, the Coast Guard required vessels arriving to the U.S. that visited Nigeria during their last five port calls to take specified security-related actions while in Nigeria or in U.S. ports.
However, the Coast Guard is now removing those requirements after having determined based on recent assessments that Nigeria is maintaining effective anti-terrorism measures.
The current list of countries assessed and not maintaining effective anti-terrorism measures (and which are therefore subject to conditions of entry) is as follows: Cambodia, Cameroon, Comoros, Cuba, Equatorial Guinea, Federated States of Micronesia, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Madagascar, Nauru, North Korea, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, Sudan, Suriname, Syria, Timor-Leste, Venezuela, and Yemen.
A current port security advisory providing more details is available here.
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