ABSTRACT 

The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency is a maritime regulatory agency and concerns with enormous responsibilities such as promoting indigenous shipping lines, shipping development, pollution control, ensuring adherence with IMO and ILO conventions among others, So based on the above functions, the research work will look into Information Technology as a sustainable index in the maritime industry. The research will first look into the development of information technology in NIMASA, evaluate the problems being encountered in usage of this technology within the organisation, find ways of improving its application in the organisation and the benefits it give to the organisation in particular and maritime industry in general. The research work will look into ways of assisting the organisation through training and retraining of staff in order to deliver quality service to maritime industry.  It will also review and look at some Information Technology equipments being used  in maritime industry world wide and it will go further to discuss risks in information technology projects