Thirty-three ships laden with petroleum products, food items and other goods are expected to arrive Apapa and Tin Can Island Ports in Lagos from Thursday, March 22, to April 5.
The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) made this known in its publication, `Shipping Position’, a copy of which was made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Thursday.
A total of 12 of the expected 33 ships would sail in with petrol.
NPA said that the remaining 21 ships contained bulk wheat, fertiliser, butane bulk sugar, aviation fuel, steel products, frozen fish, empty containers, general cargo and containers laden with goods.
The document indicated that eight ships had arrived the ports waiting to berth with bulk fertiliser, aviation fuel and petrol.
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said it programmed to bring in two cargoesof petrol per day to boost supply.
The move was reportedly in a bid to keep the country wet with petrol and eradicate the fuel queues that have resurfaced in some cities.
Each of the two cargoes was 50 million litres making a total of 100 million litres that was brought in per day from February to increase supply and replenish strategic reserves.
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