The Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, may likely lose its slot as the second busiest airport in Africa, to OR Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg, as a result of poor aviation fuel (Jet A1) supply and the outrageous price of the product.
This is according to CITA, a major global aviation fuel supplier. CITA said Nigeria has the capacity to supply 1 billion litres of fuel per annum but currently supplies only 500 million litres due to the country's inability to refine fuel locally.
The company warned that as Lagos airport continues to lose flight traffic and many international carriers refuel from neighbouring airports like Accra, Abidjan and Lome while departing from Lagos, the traffic in Cape Town is growing daily.
CITA which is in a partnership with Puma Energy, the fuel-selling arm of Dutch trading giant Trafigura, said it was striving to bridge the gap in fuel supply in Nigeria by supplying clean aviation fuel into the country.
