Quick aside : "Nigeria some heavy & light manufacturing in italics" is a statistical mistake
These special purpose ships (and scarp vessels) are basically previously imported oil rigs (and similar) being re-exported as most of them are rented by oil producing companies are move to other locations. But customs (which are ultimately the source of OEC data) do record the equipment full value when it gets in the country and when it gets out.
In any given year, you can see that category being significant in either imports or exports of most oil producing west African countries. I bet (I haven't tried) it all nets in a multi-year time scale.
I suspect aircraft is probably the same.
(and fertilizer is a derivative of the oil industry)
Please do, I enjoyed it and shared it with a few of my friends
Quick aside : "Nigeria some heavy & light manufacturing in italics" is a statistical mistake
These special purpose ships (and scarp vessels) are basically previously imported oil rigs (and similar) being re-exported as most of them are rented by oil producing companies are move to other locations. But customs (which are ultimately the source of OEC data) do record the equipment full value when it gets in the country and when it gets out.
In any given year, you can see that category being significant in either imports or exports of most oil producing west African countries. I bet (I haven't tried) it all nets in a multi-year time scale.
I suspect aircraft is probably the same.
(and fertilizer is a derivative of the oil industry)
Thanks. This series was made over a year ago and is my least proud work. Some of this I realized (like aircraft), am I redoing this entire series.
I realized it was old but I pointed that little fact just because it does affect other countries.
Thank you SeuBongo, I'll check other countries as well on this.
Namibia !
Did you ever get around to writing part 4?
Not yet, i actually want to rewrite or redo large chunks of my Nigeria articles and redo my central African republic one.