The Liberia Maritime Authority (LiMA) has begun the process of formulating a multi-year strategic plan that will guide the institution’s operations over five years, 2024-2029. The process got underway on April 4, 2024, with a two-day strategic working retreat in Ganta, Nimba County, under the theme: “Rethinking And Setting The Agenda for a Vibrant Maritime Sector”.

Barely a fortnight into his stint as commissioner, Commissioner/CEO Cllr. Neto Zarzar Lighe Sr. of the Liberia Maritime Authority made a number of working visits to maritime facilities in Monrovia, on March 26, 2024.

The Liberia Maritime Authority (LiMA) family welcomed Cllr. Neto Zarzar Lighe Sr. as its new Commissioner/CEO at a very brief ceremony on Wednesday, March 20, 2024, at the Corporate Headquarters of the institution.

The Commissioner and Chief Executive Officer of the Liberia Maritime Authority (LiMA), Eugene Lenn Nagbe, has drawn the curtains on his five-year tenure with two years left.

MONROVIA, LIBERIA – Thursday 7 December 2023): On the morning of December 7, 2023, the Liberia Maritime Authority (LiMA), as Designated Authority of Liberia’s International Port Security Program held a meeting with a delegation from the United States Coast Guard to mark the end of a weeklong ISPS assessment visit that was aimed at examining the enforcement of Anti-Terrorism Measures at Liberia’s port facilities. This was a follow-up visit. The team was here in October 2022.

The Liberia Maritime Authority (LiMA) is immensely pleased to announce that Liberia has been elected to Category ‘A’ of the Council of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) at the 33rd Assembly session of the organization in London on Friday, 1 December 2023. This followed a hotly contested election. The Assembly is the highest decision-making body of the IMO. It meets biennially to approve the decisions of the organization.

The Liberia Maritime Authority ("LİMA") has been informed by the owners of the Liberia flagged vessel, KMAX RULER, that it was struck by an anti- radar mnissile on or about November 8, 2023 near Pivdennyi Seaport in the Ukrainian city of Yuzhne near Odesa, killing a Ukrainian pilot, injuring three (3) crew members (Filipino nationals), and damaging the vessel's bridge and superstructure.

The Liberia Maritime Authority (LiMA) and stakeholders in the Liberian maritime domain have validated the country’s first-ever National Maritime Security Strategy after months of scrutiny.

Liberia has taken a major leap towards ensuring that the environment is protected in the operations of the global ship recycling industry by depositing the country’s ratified Hong Kong Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships. This milestone decision paves the way for the treaty to come into full force in two years after attaining the required threshold of member states of the International Maritime Organization (IMO). The instrument was deposited with IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim, by the Commissioner of the Liberia Maritime Authority, Lenn Eugene Nagbe on June 26, 2023 in London.

The Commissioner of the Liberia Maritime Authority (LiMA) Lenn Eugene Nagbe is canvassing tooth and nail to ensure that Liberia gets elected to Category A of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in the shipping industry’s regulator’s upcoming election in December 2023.