29 ships laden with petroleum products, foods to arrive Feb. 5

Dimeji Akinloye 16:17 - 21 January 2016

Tin-can Island Container Terminal.

The document noted that nine ships had arrived the ports, waiting to berth with petroleum products and frozen fish.

Twenty nine ships laden with petroleum products, food items and other goods are expected to arrive Apapa and Tin-Can Island Ports in Lagos from Jan. 21 to Feb. 5.

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 Thursday in Lagos.

NPA stated that the expected ships contained general cargoes, buck wheat, containers, bulk sugar, steel products, bulk charcoal, bulk gas, diesel, petrol and base oil.

NAN reports that 16 other ships are at the ports discharging buck wheat, general cargoes, bulk charcoal, bulk rice and petrol.