Fifty six ships laden with
containers, foods, petroleum products and other goods will arrive in Lagos ports from November 13 to November 30, the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) said on Thursday.
The NPA, which made the disclosure in Lagos in its daily publication, “Shipping Position’’, said 20 of the expected ships would arrive at the APMT Terminals, Apapa, the largest container terminal.
The publication said that seven of the expected ships would sail into the ENL Consortium, while five would berth at Greenview and eight at Apapa Bulk Terminals.
It said the remaining 26 ships would berth in other terminals.
The document said that 19 of the 56 expected ships would arrive with containers, while 11 others were being expected with petroleum products like petrol, bulk gas, diesel and aviation fuel.
It said that two ships containing used vehicles were also expected, while the remaining 24 ships would arrive with crude palm oil, buckwheat, bulk sugar, bulk fertilizer, bulk gypsium, bulk rice and general cargo.
The publication, however, said that eight ships had arrived at the ports and waiting to berth with food items.
It said that 11 other ships were also waiting to berth at the various oil terminals in the ports with petroleum products, mostly petrol (PMS).
The publication disclosed that 23 other ships were discharging cargoes like buckwheat, bulk rice, bulk gypsium, bulk soya bean, base oil, fresh fish, general cargo and petroleum products.