Fourteen ships are currently discharging petroleum products and other commodities at Apapa and Tin-Can Island ports in Lagos, the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) said on Friday.
NPA explained that the ships were at the ports discharging buck wheat, clinker, petrol, diesel, empty containers, bulk charcoal, palm oil and bulk sugar.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that 26 ships laden with petroleum products, food items and other goods, are expected to arrive the Lagos port between November 4 and November 23.
NPA said that the expected ships would ferry into the country, bulk sugar, base oil, general cargoes, ethanol, bulk fertiliser, containers, aviation fuel, crude palm oil, diesel and petrol.
NAN reports that 26 ships were expected on October 31; 26 ships on November 1, 26 ships on November 2, and 31 ships on November 3.
The document noted that five ships had arrived the port, waiting to berth with bulk fertiliser, bulk sugar and petrol. (NAN)
