No fewer than 13 vessels are presently discharging petroleum products at various seaports across the country.
The vessels discharging have an average of 650 million litres.
Also, three more vessels are expected to berth before the end of the week.
The Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Dr. Maikanti Baru, made this known on Sunday while speaking with journalists.
Baru said in order to ensure that the products were transferred to various depots, the federal government had instructed the Navy, NIMASSA , Customs and all stakeholders to expedite clearance and anchorage services.
While giving assurance that the fuel crisis would soon be over, Baru said NNPC had instructed a 24 hours loading and sales operations at all its depots and mega stations.
He added that major marketers had been advised to operate 24 hours.
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He revealed that apart from the regular supply system, NNPC had programmed the delivery of additional 300 million litres in December 2017 and January 2018 to beef up national reserve to 45 million litres per day.
Speaking on the efforts of the NNPC to solve the fuel crisis, Baru said the national truck out capacity had been beefed up to an average of 1,500 trucks.
That, he said, amounted to 52 million litres per day.
“This is coming at a time when NNPC is the sole supplier of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) known as petrol as a result of the inability of oil marketing companies to import due to landing cost and exchange rate,’’ he added.
Baru said NNPC had activated the “Fuel War Room” to coordinate all intervention activities for supply and distribution of the PMS nationwide.
He said that the team in the fuel war room included NNPC, DPR, PPPRA and PEF with the support of the security agencies.
The group, according to him, worked round the clock to ensure speedy resolution of the current crisis.