Bulk wheat, salt top Eastern, Delta ports import chart

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By Godwin Oritse
BULK wheat, salt and frozen fish topped the import chart at the Eastern and Delta ports of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, as a total of 29,437,079 metric tons of cargoes  arrived the country last week.

Wheat

The Eastern ports of the NPA comprises of Port Harcourt and Calabar ports while that of Delta comprises of Warri, Sapele and Koko ports.

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.

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