24 ships laden with petroleum products, food items, to arrive

December 15, 2016 8:01 AM

A document from NPA noted that four ships had arrived the ports, waiting to berth with bulk fertiliser, frozen fish and petrol.

Nigerian Ports Authority .

Twenty four ships laden with petroleum products, food items and other goods are expected to arrive Apapa and Tin-Can Island ports in Lagos from December 14 to December 24.

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The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) stated this in its publication – `Shipping Position’, – a copy of which was made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that three of the expected 24 ships would berth with petrol and aviation fuel.

NPA said that the remaining 21 expected ships contained buck wheat, general cargo, base oil, bulk sugar, frozen fish, steel products, containers and petrol.

The document noted that four ships had arrived the ports, waiting to berth with bulk fertiliser, frozen fish and petrol.

NAN reports that seven other ships are at the ports discharging general cargoes, empty containers, bulk wheat, bulk sugar, containers, aviation fuel and petrol.