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30 ships carrying various products expected at Lagos ports

A total of 30 ships laden with foods and other goods are expected in Apapa and Tin Can Ports in Lagos from July 31 to Aug. 8.

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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)

A total of 30 ships laden with foods and other goods are expected in Apapa and Tin Can Ports in Lagos from July 31 to Aug. 8.

The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) said this on Wednesday in its daily, “Shipping Position”.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that none of the ship is sailing in with petroleum products.

The 30 ships are carrying general cargo, bulk sugar, frozen fish, buckwheat and containers carrying different goods.

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According to the NPA, 18 ships have already in arrived the ports waiting to berth with containers, buckwheat, general cargo and petrol.

NPA said that no fewer than 18 other ships were currently discharging buckwheat, vehicles, general cargo, container, petrol, gypsum, butane, diesel, frozen fish and bulk sugar.
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