Post by Trade facilitator on Apr 2, 2021 18:42:01 GMT 1
Agro And Foodstuff Export Records Huge Surge As Airlines Scramble For Cargo In Nigeria
The whole world witnessed a general slump in air cargo movement in the year 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic that ravaged the entire continents. Despite this, Nigerian export recorded a marginal growth; with agricultural foodstuff and perishable items accounting for over 50% of the growth.
According to Air cargo data obtained from local aviation sources, exports are steadily going up, while imports declined due to the pandemic.
This development was due to the fact that Nigerians abroad love Nigerian local dishes, thereby prompting our exporters to export packaged local goods for scarce foreign exchange.
The reason is also because local foodstuff export is more beneficial to airlines in order to make up for revenue losses from highly reduced passenger traffic due to the pandemic.
Stakeholders in the airline industry agreed that Nigerian exportable goods are available, and indigenous airlines have a fleet to mop up the produce.
Findings showed that international airfreight traffic marginally dropped in the year 2020 due to the Covid-19 lockdown and the attendant disruptions. But the export terminals in Lagos ports have been significantly busy with perishable food items in long ques.
Reports show the “dollar spinning” food items are yam tuber, ginger, cocoa butter, palm kernel oil, sesame seed, garlic, cassava flour, cashew nuts, honey, shrimps, live snail, chili pepper, fruit juice, vegetables, and poultry products.Others are textiles, rubber garments, gallstones, cotton, cosmetics and soap, wigs, and hair attachments.
Agents at the cargo terminal of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) said that the items had of recent become a regular consignment brought in by the exporting public.
The Managing Director of Mainstream Cargo, Segun Adewale, confirmed that export had improved lately with perishable items going up by at least fifty percent. The Airlines are now taking the packaged perishable food items easily.
This is what this forum has been preaching to our numerous and esteemed members, go and start one exportable foodstuff item or more.
We organize seminars and training programmes for the export of foodstuff almost every week for those in Nigeria and other West African countries.
Listen to this, Mr. Adewale noted that the United Kingdom is the nation’s primary and major destination for export of foodstuff followed by Germany and the United States of America.
The main reason for this is the near collapse of passenger traffic due to the pandemic. This has robbed off on cargo traffic, which has become a blessing to exporters of perishable foodstuff exporters in Nigeria.
Nigeria is currently building a big business around the export market; the market is daily experiencing perishable foodstuffs leaving the country.
Records have it that about three consolidators are already moving about 80 tonnes of foodstuffs every week from Nigeria.
Look at the report from a local company called Bubex Foods; they are currently exporting branded pap from Lagos to the United Kingdom. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Bubex Foods, Ijeoma Ndukwe, said that their company was targeting 20% of the thirty-five million Nigerians in Europe; what an ambition.
The company’s CEO explained that their pap scaled the European and American integrity checks before they ventured into exporting it; this has raised the confidence that the company could export at least 450 million tonnes of pap per year.
The chief Executive Officer of NAHCO Plc, Tokunbo Fagbemi, said that the growing cargo export could yield more if local stakeholders could make the most of its opportunities.
He complained that there is no standard packaging from Nigeria yet. He said that when you see goods from China that you will immediately know that they are from China. The same goes for England, India; and even some African countries.
Fruits that are exported to England from Africa have been packaged to about 90% from here; they only add the supermarket wrapper when the products get there.
Our own local people must be trained to carry out such packaging; the job is not difficult; such little things count a lot in international trade.
The request for our local foodstuffs is on the increase daily; start an export business now, attend our training programmes to gain the necessary skills required to become an expert exporter.
Stay with us for more in the next article.
The whole world witnessed a general slump in air cargo movement in the year 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic that ravaged the entire continents. Despite this, Nigerian export recorded a marginal growth; with agricultural foodstuff and perishable items accounting for over 50% of the growth.
According to Air cargo data obtained from local aviation sources, exports are steadily going up, while imports declined due to the pandemic.
This development was due to the fact that Nigerians abroad love Nigerian local dishes, thereby prompting our exporters to export packaged local goods for scarce foreign exchange.
The reason is also because local foodstuff export is more beneficial to airlines in order to make up for revenue losses from highly reduced passenger traffic due to the pandemic.
Stakeholders in the airline industry agreed that Nigerian exportable goods are available, and indigenous airlines have a fleet to mop up the produce.
Findings showed that international airfreight traffic marginally dropped in the year 2020 due to the Covid-19 lockdown and the attendant disruptions. But the export terminals in Lagos ports have been significantly busy with perishable food items in long ques.
Reports show the “dollar spinning” food items are yam tuber, ginger, cocoa butter, palm kernel oil, sesame seed, garlic, cassava flour, cashew nuts, honey, shrimps, live snail, chili pepper, fruit juice, vegetables, and poultry products.Others are textiles, rubber garments, gallstones, cotton, cosmetics and soap, wigs, and hair attachments.
Agents at the cargo terminal of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) said that the items had of recent become a regular consignment brought in by the exporting public.
The Managing Director of Mainstream Cargo, Segun Adewale, confirmed that export had improved lately with perishable items going up by at least fifty percent. The Airlines are now taking the packaged perishable food items easily.
This is what this forum has been preaching to our numerous and esteemed members, go and start one exportable foodstuff item or more.
We organize seminars and training programmes for the export of foodstuff almost every week for those in Nigeria and other West African countries.
Listen to this, Mr. Adewale noted that the United Kingdom is the nation’s primary and major destination for export of foodstuff followed by Germany and the United States of America.
The main reason for this is the near collapse of passenger traffic due to the pandemic. This has robbed off on cargo traffic, which has become a blessing to exporters of perishable foodstuff exporters in Nigeria.
Nigeria is currently building a big business around the export market; the market is daily experiencing perishable foodstuffs leaving the country.
Records have it that about three consolidators are already moving about 80 tonnes of foodstuffs every week from Nigeria.
Look at the report from a local company called Bubex Foods; they are currently exporting branded pap from Lagos to the United Kingdom. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Bubex Foods, Ijeoma Ndukwe, said that their company was targeting 20% of the thirty-five million Nigerians in Europe; what an ambition.
The company’s CEO explained that their pap scaled the European and American integrity checks before they ventured into exporting it; this has raised the confidence that the company could export at least 450 million tonnes of pap per year.
The chief Executive Officer of NAHCO Plc, Tokunbo Fagbemi, said that the growing cargo export could yield more if local stakeholders could make the most of its opportunities.
He complained that there is no standard packaging from Nigeria yet. He said that when you see goods from China that you will immediately know that they are from China. The same goes for England, India; and even some African countries.
Fruits that are exported to England from Africa have been packaged to about 90% from here; they only add the supermarket wrapper when the products get there.
Our own local people must be trained to carry out such packaging; the job is not difficult; such little things count a lot in international trade.
The request for our local foodstuffs is on the increase daily; start an export business now, attend our training programmes to gain the necessary skills required to become an expert exporter.
Stay with us for more in the next article.
