Lagos ports receive 11 ships conveying petrol, others

No fewer than 12 ships carrying various products are at Apapa and Tin-Can Island ports waiting to berth, the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) said on Friday in Lagos.

It said three of the vessels contained petrol, while the remaining nine ships would berth with aviation fuel, uria, bulk gas, diesel and fertilizer.

The NPA stated that 31 other ships carrying buckwheat, vehicles, containers, steel, buckwheat, base oil, bulk gas, bulk fertilizer, general cargo and petrol were expected at the ports between July 6 and July 30.