China exported 51,000 mt of gasoline to Nigeria in January, the first such export to the African country, latest data from General Administration showed Tuesday. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now Nigeria is the second country in Africa to have received Chinese gasoline, with the first being Togo that got 50,000 mt of gasoline in April 2018. Nigeria was the fourth-largest buyer of Chinese gasoline in January — also the only buyer outside Asia last month. The Nigerian general election in February has been a key factor in the growing gasoline flows into the country since December, S&P Global Platts reported earlier. PetroChina, China’s largest gasoline exporter, last year had set up an office in Nigeria, which could possibly point to the first gasoline cargo landing in the African country. The Asian trading hubs of Singapore and Malaysia remained the top […]