Vessels carrying food, industrial cargo, and petroleum products continue to arrive at two of the country’s main maritime gateways, indicating that commercial shipping activities have remained strong throughout Lagos ports.
In its most recent shipping position report, which was made public in Lagos on Wednesday, the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) revealed that at least 16 ships had berthed at the ports of Apapa, Tin Can Island, and Lekki.
The authorities claim that the ships are loaded with petrol, fuel oil, naphtha, crude oil, bulkgas, and urea for both consumer and industrial use.
In order to increase cargo traffic in the Lagos port corridors, the NPA also disclosed that 34 additional vessels are anticipated to arrive at the ports between May 6 and May 18.
It is anticipated that the arriving ships will carry a variety of goods, such as food supplies, petroleum products, and general cargo.
Buckwheat, containers, fresh fish, crude oil, bulk wheat, diesel, base oil, bitumen, gasoline, and bulk soya are a few of the imports mentioned.
The authority reported that both dry and liquid cargoes were continuously arriving at the ports, indicating that shipping activities were still ongoing.
According to the report, 23 ships are currently emptying their cargo at the ports.
Containers, aviation fuel, gasoline, crude oil, gypsum, trucks, wheat, urea, and fresh fish are among the cargoes.
According to maritime stakeholders, the steady vessel traffic indicates robust import demand and ongoing commercial activity through Nigeria’s busiest seaports.
According to Daily Trust, the ships contain crude oil and petroleum products that are purportedly intended for the Dangote Refinery.
Since Nigeria was unable to supply the necessary feedstock for the 650,000 bpd plant, the refinery has kept importing crude oil.
Aliko Dangote, President/Chief Executive of Dangote Industries Limited, recently revealed that although supply has improved thanks to the naira-for-crude initiative, the refinery still imports crude from the United States and other African producers to close the supply gap.
Dangote praised the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited in a note on Tuesday for boosting crude deliveries to the refinery in March, pointing out that volumes increased to 10 cargoes—six in naira and four in dollars—to support domestic fuel availability.
He stated, “They gave us six cargoes for naira and four cargoes for dollars last month.”
In order to lessen the effects of the crisis, he continued, the refinery has shipped roughly 17 cargoes of gasoline to African nations, using its 650,000 barrels per day capacity to stabilise supply across several regions.
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