Yemisi Izuora
Thirty vessels with petroleum products, food items and other goods are expected to arrive Apapa and Tin-Can Island Ports in Lagos to boost supply across the country.
The delivery of the products are expected between this week up to February 24.
According to the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) publication `Shipping Position’, the expected ships contained buck wheat, bulk salt, containers, steel products, gypsum, Rubber Tyred Gantry (GTR) cranes, base oil, petrol, kerosene and diesel.
The document noted that nine other ships had arrived the ports, waiting to berth with petrol and containers.
Also, 16 other ships are at the ports discharging buck wheat, general cargoes, soda ash, bulk rice, buthane, containers, base oil and petrol.