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Cargo traffic: 103 ships scramble for Lagos ports
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Nigerian seaports have become a beehive of maritime activities as 103 ships scramble to transact business at the Lagos terminals.
The increase in cargo throughput is attributed to the Federal Government’s effort to reduce dwell time of consignments from the usual 30 days to 48 hours.
Although this objective of government has not fully materialised, shipping lines are optimistic that the country will be a hub in the nearest future.
From the shipping position, 35 ships are coming in with 19,189 full container loads of goods, alongside eight others with 2,000 units of vehicles.
Also, 38 vessels with 369,565 metric tons of base oil, diesel, kerosene, petrol, low pour fuel oil and aviation oil, will be discharging their commodities in the next two weeks.
Moreover, 13 ships laden with 436,064 metric tons of bulk cement, bulk
urea and bulk sugar are still expected at the ports, alongside vessels with 2215 tons of equipment, 29,000 tons of caustic soda and four others with 14,064 tons of fish.
Already, nine ships with 98,433.782 metric tons of fishes, bulk fertiliser, bulk urea, containers and general cargo, are waiting to berth at ENL Consortium Limited, while a vessel known as Goldenshipping with 20,549 tons of bulk wheat has been in Nigerian waters since March 24 waiting to do business at Apapa Bulk Terminal.
According to the managing director of Maersk Line, Tom Gronnegaard Knudsen, his company was willing to bring in bigger vessels as the water channel deepens.
He explained Nigeria was a big market in the West Africa sub-region to accommodate many shipping lines, stressing that more vessels would be coming into the country as the dwell time goes down.
On his part, Dera Nnadi, the public relations officer of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) said there were about 98 shipping lines doing business at ApapaPort, maintaining that as services improve, more would be expected.
The image-maker pointed out that as most of the service providers had commenced 24 hours cargo operation, it would be easier to handle the volume of consignments coming into the country in the recent times.
The increase in cargo throughput is attributed to the Federal Government’s effort to reduce dwell time of consignments from the usual 30 days to 48 hours.
Although this objective of government has not fully materialised, shipping lines are optimistic that the country will be a hub in the nearest future.
From the shipping position, 35 ships are coming in with 19,189 full container loads of goods, alongside eight others with 2,000 units of vehicles.
Also, 38 vessels with 369,565 metric tons of base oil, diesel, kerosene, petrol, low pour fuel oil and aviation oil, will be discharging their commodities in the next two weeks.
Moreover, 13 ships laden with 436,064 metric tons of bulk cement, bulk
urea and bulk sugar are still expected at the ports, alongside vessels with 2215 tons of equipment, 29,000 tons of caustic soda and four others with 14,064 tons of fish.
Already, nine ships with 98,433.782 metric tons of fishes, bulk fertiliser, bulk urea, containers and general cargo, are waiting to berth at ENL Consortium Limited, while a vessel known as Goldenshipping with 20,549 tons of bulk wheat has been in Nigerian waters since March 24 waiting to do business at Apapa Bulk Terminal.
According to the managing director of Maersk Line, Tom Gronnegaard Knudsen, his company was willing to bring in bigger vessels as the water channel deepens.
He explained Nigeria was a big market in the West Africa sub-region to accommodate many shipping lines, stressing that more vessels would be coming into the country as the dwell time goes down.
On his part, Dera Nnadi, the public relations officer of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) said there were about 98 shipping lines doing business at ApapaPort, maintaining that as services improve, more would be expected.
The image-maker pointed out that as most of the service providers had commenced 24 hours cargo operation, it would be easier to handle the volume of consignments coming into the country in the recent times.
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