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Bulk wheat,salt and frozen fish are at the top of the import chart at the Eastern and Delta ports of the Nigerian Ports Authority. And a total of 29,437,079 metric tons of cargoes arrived the country last week.
A breakdown of the figure showed that bulk wheat alone recorded a total of 14, 234, 782metric tons of cargo, about 48.4 percent of the total cargo throughput all of which occurred in the Eastern port regions alone with Calabar port taking over 99 percent of the total, while a negligible balance came through Port Harcourt port.
Bulk salt recorded 11, 679,649mt of cargo that came in the country through the Eastern ports alone as no salt shipment came through Delta port region.
A shipment of 15,000mt of premium motor spirit, PMS, otherwise known as petrol, was recorded in the shipping documents of both Eastern and Delta ports.This is closely followed by 3,524,097 metric tons of frozen fish.
Figures from the daily shipping position of the Port Harcourt Pilot District showed that Bulk wheat recorded a total of 1,449 metric tons while 10,000mt of aviation fuel otherwise known as Jet A1 also came at the time of filling this report.
Lagos ports still remains the hub of port activities in Nigeria, the lull in import and export businesses in outer ports have been attributed to low and shallow channels and pirates' activities.
