Nigeria’s export-led trade records significant surge

Nigeria’s export-led commercialized recorded a important surge, accounting for 39.0 percent of full cargo throughput successful 2025.

This is according to the 2025 Operational Performance Report precocious released by the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA).

The study stated that full cargo throughput surged by 24.8 percent, rising from astir 103.6 cardinal metric tons successful 2024 to implicit 129.3 cardinal metric tons successful 2025.

Meanwhile, the study said import ascendant inward postulation which stood astatine 59.2 percent.

Accordingly, the study highlighted that containerized cargo, a cardinal indicator of export commercialized activity, grew importantly arsenic full instrumentality postulation accrued by 25.7 percent, surpassing 2.1 cardinal Twenty-foot Equivalent Units (TEUs).

This means that export containers grew by 3.1 percent, portion import-laden containers surged by 32.8 percent successful the play nether review.

Further port-to-port breakdown showed that Lekki Port attracted the largest vessels, with an mean Gross Registered Tonnage (GRT) of 55,712, somewhat higher tha...