42 ships laden with fuel, food items to arrive Lagos

Forty-two ships laden with petroleum products, food items and other commodities are expected to arrive Lagos ports from June 10 to June 23, a`Shipping Position’ made available by the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA)  to newsmen on Wednesday in Lagos.

Fourteen of the expected ships, according to the publication, will sail in with containers of different goods, nine ships with petroleum products and five ships will come in with fresh fish.

It indicated that nine other ships contained general cargo, buck wheat, base oil, bulk urea, bulk clinker, gas and steel products.

The document stated that eight ships were waiting to berth with bulk rice, petrol, diesel, aviation fuel and base oil.

Reports showed that 23 other ships containing general goods and petroleum products were discharging at the ports.

NAN