Lagos ports to receive 27 ships laden with petroleum products, food items

Twenty seven ships laden with petroleum products, food items and other goods are expected to arrive in Apapa and Tin Can Island Ports in Lagos from Feb. 22 to March 17.

The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) disclosed this in its daily publication, `Shipping Position’, a copy of which was made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Thursday.

Thirteen of the expected ships will sail in with petrol.

NPA said that the remaining ships would carry buck wheat, bulk fertiliser, bulk sugar, diesel, empty containers, chemical bags, frozen fish and containers.

It said that 10 ships had arrived in the ports waiting to berth with bulk fertiliser, diesel and petrol.