Lekki Deep Seaport receives first transshipment vessel

The management of the Lekki Deep Seaport, on Thursday, announced the arrival of the first transshipment vessel to call at the container terminal of the port, Rimbaud.

A statement by the port disclosed that the vessel owned by CMA CGM shipping company, arrived at the terminal on Thursday, adding that the vessel came with cargo from two of the largest container shipping lines in the world, CMA CGM and Maersk.

According to the statement, the vessel was carrying 411 twenty-foot equivalent units of transshipment cargo and had a nominal container handling capacity of 6,900 TEUs.