Nigeria Customs has announced that from 5th of July 2011 and as per Nigerian Ports Authority's instructions, their system will reject any submission of manifest where the name of the vessel is not mentioned.
Transporter name (in this case the name of the vessel) has been changed to mandatory (Name_of_transporter field, field 28 of table 1 on page 15)
The corresponding error message is: "4051: Name of the transporter input required"
The documentation available on the page: named eManifest Installation and Usage Guide (http://customs.gov.ng/Guidelines/eManifestProcedure/download/WFN-SIG-EMI-00043v1.5_eManifest_Installation_and_usage_Guide.pdf) has been updated accordingly.
This message concerns the shipping lines only, not the airlines.
Nigeria Customs Administration (http://www.customs.gov.ng/Publications/news_results.php?NewsID=129)