Post by Trade facilitator on Feb 2, 2013 8:49:39 GMT 1
Nigeria’s non-oil export to Europe, America and Asia through Apapa Port, have declined by over N33 billion in one year.
This decline further heightens apprehension over a major economic crisis in the country.
Apapa Port, which is the country’s largest seaport, accounts for over 50 per cent of the nation’s non-oil exports through its eight major seaports.
Area Controller of the command, Comptroller Mohammed Umar, who addressed reporters in Lagos on the activities of the command for last year, listed the export items to include palm kernel cake, cocoa beans and wheat bran pallets.
Others were cashew nuts, sesame seeds, ginger, hibiscus flower, gum Arabic, processed rubber, shrimps, and lead ingot.
Economic and trade statistics released by the Apapa Area One Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) shows that 116,525 metric tonnes of non-oil commodities worth N129.9billion were exported through the Lagos Port complex between January and December last year.
This compares to a total of 665, 010 metric tonnes of the various goods worth N133 billion accounted for the previous year. This represented a shortfall of N33.1billion.
Also exported were 4, 625,837 square feet of processed leather, 74,547 cases of dettol antiseptic, maggi crayfish, 29,062 cartons of biscuits, 97,100 bags of assorted bathroom slippers and 1,655,320 litres of ethyl alcohol.
Source: thenationonlineng.net/new/business/industry/non-oil-export-revenue-drops/
This decline further heightens apprehension over a major economic crisis in the country.
Apapa Port, which is the country’s largest seaport, accounts for over 50 per cent of the nation’s non-oil exports through its eight major seaports.
Area Controller of the command, Comptroller Mohammed Umar, who addressed reporters in Lagos on the activities of the command for last year, listed the export items to include palm kernel cake, cocoa beans and wheat bran pallets.
Others were cashew nuts, sesame seeds, ginger, hibiscus flower, gum Arabic, processed rubber, shrimps, and lead ingot.
Economic and trade statistics released by the Apapa Area One Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) shows that 116,525 metric tonnes of non-oil commodities worth N129.9billion were exported through the Lagos Port complex between January and December last year.
This compares to a total of 665, 010 metric tonnes of the various goods worth N133 billion accounted for the previous year. This represented a shortfall of N33.1billion.
Also exported were 4, 625,837 square feet of processed leather, 74,547 cases of dettol antiseptic, maggi crayfish, 29,062 cartons of biscuits, 97,100 bags of assorted bathroom slippers and 1,655,320 litres of ethyl alcohol.
Source: thenationonlineng.net/new/business/industry/non-oil-export-revenue-drops/
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