First Transshipment Vessel Arrives Lekki Seaport

The Lekki Deep Seaport has on Thursday received the arrival of the first transshipment vessel carrying an equivalent of twenty foot units of cargo with a capacity to handle a nominal container of 6,900 TEUs at the container terminal known as Rimbaud owned by CMA CHM shipping company.

According to the statement made available to the press by the management of the seaport,

“The vessel, which arrived at approximately 1.00 pm on Thursday, June 29, 2023, was carrying cargo from two of the largest container shipping lines in the world, CMA CGM and Maersk. The service originated from the far east passing through Shanghai, Ningbo, Shekou, Nansha, TanjungPelpas, and Singapore to Kribi, Cameroun, before finally arriving at Lekki Port this afternoon. The vessel was carrying 411 TEUs of transshipment cargo and has a nominal container handling capacity of 6,900 TEUs.”

Du Ruogang who is the Managing Director of Lekki Port was full of appreciation for the role of the Federal Ministry of Transportation and the Nigerian Ports Authority in facilitating the flagging off of transshipment activities at Lekki Port.

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This successful arrival of this vessel and the sorting out of the cargo was largely due to the cooperation of regulatory agencies like the Nigerian Customs Service according to Lawrence Smith, the COO of the Lekki Seaport 

“Lekki Port, with its state-of-the-art Ship to Shore cranes and sophisticated scanners, is now poised to position Nigeria as the preeminent transshipment hub of West Africa. The transshipped cargo will be departing for Cotonou, its final destination, on 6th July 2023,” Smith said

The vessel arrived with cargo belonging to CMA CGM and Maersk.