24 ships carrying petrol and various products expected at Lagos ports

By : NAN

Date: 15 June 2019 2:16pm WAT

EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / The container ship MSC Samantha of the Meriterranean Shipping Company is docked at the Apapa Port Complex in Lagos, Nigeria's economy hub, on April 8, 2019. - The Nigerian port is congested with hundreds of ships, idly queueing for days to offload containers with goods. Lagos port congestion is affecting port operations and creating a severe backlog at ports, causing carriers’ containers to be held in port for extra days, as well as creating several miles of truck traffic at roads that links to port gates. (Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP)

The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) says 24 ships laden with petroleum products, food and other goods will berth at Apapa and Tin Can Island Ports between June 15 and June 29.

The NPA made this known in its daily publications, ‘Shipping Position’.

It said that one of the ship would sail in with petrol, the other 23 ships would bring in bulk salt, bulk gypsum, buckwheat, steel products, bulk sugar, semi-trailer and general cargo.