13 Fuel-Laden Ships To Discharge At Lagos Ports

Thirteen ships are waiting to discharge petroleum products at the various oil terminals within the Lagos ports, the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has said.
NPA in its daily “Shipping Position’’, made available to newsmen on Friday in Lagos, said that seven of the 13 ships would discharge petrol.
It said that two ships would discharge diesel, two would discharge aviation fuel and two would discharge kerosene.
The document reported that six ships were waiting to discharge general cargo, bulk sugar and rice.
NPA also said that 101 ships carrying different cargoes would arrive the ports between Dec. 20 and Jan. 13.
It said that 19 of the expected ships would arrive with petroleum products, while 13 ships would sail in with new and fairly used vehicles.
NPA said that other ships would arrive with containers, rice, fish, salt, bulk sugar, general cargoes, bulk wheat, bulk gypsum.
The remaining ships would arrive with steel products, fertilizer, base oil, palm oil, empty containers, bulk salt, fresh fish and bulk wheat.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that 24 ships are presently discharging containers, frozen fish, wheat, general cargo, steel products, sugar, gypsum and petroleum products.