Customs Facilitates $68.5m Export at Apapa Port, Generates N1.02trn Revenue Eromosele Abiodun The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Apapa command, yesterday, said it facilitated $68.5 million export and generated N1.02 trillion
The Nigeria Customs Service , Apapa command, yesterday, said it facilitated $68.5 million export and generated N1.02 trillion from cargoes imported into the country via Apapa port from January to December 2022.
According to him, “On export trade, in line with the federal government’s diversification of the economy in non-oil export, the command recorded a total of $68.5 million Free onboard value with a naira equivalent of N28.2 billion of non- oil commodities with a total tonnage of 6.4 million Metric tonnes exported through Apapa port.
Malanta noted that the year under review was characterised with several challenges in the economic and trade supply chain. Items seized by the command, he revealed, include; codeine syrup, foreign parboiled rice, vegetable oil, processed/unprocessed wood, used clothing’s, etc, “and 60 suspects were arrested in connection with some of the seizures.”
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