Section 2: Provision of navigational services and facilities.

(1) It shall be the duty of the Authority to provide such navigational services or extend such facilities for the purposes of this Act as may be necessary or expedient to serve the public interest in accordance with the requirements of the provisions of the Convention.
(2) Such navigational services may include the installation of position-fixing system, navigational aids, and the setting up of sea lanes for the purposes of removing any navigational hazards
(3)
In this subsection-
(a) "position-fixing system" means such system of hyperbolic navigation which operates automatically and continuously, and which depends on time signals sent out from a series, that is to say, chains of master and slave stations, for the purpose of enabling any mariner to obtain the position of his ship, and of aiding navigation, with a very high degree of accuracy; and
(b) "navigational aids" include objects on shore or afloat or instruments, such as light-houses, lightships, buoys, beacons, radio/radar and radar equipment, which assist in the safe passage of ships or enable ships to ascertain their positions at sea in relation to these aids.
(4) The facilities which the Authority may provide may include berthing, towing, mooring, or moving of ships in or around any oil terminal for the purposes of evacuating oil from the terminal including the establishment of safety zones, and the Authority may in respect of such services levy ships' dues on such ships.
(5) Sections 7 and 8 of the Nigerian Ports Authority Act (which relate to the duties of the Authority) shall apply, and shall be construed with such modifications as may be necessary, and notwithstanding the generality of the foregoing, the references in those provisions to "navigational services" and "port facilities" are references to the services and facilities prescribed under the foregoing provisions of this section.