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WACT teams up with Starsight Energy to install solar system

News13 May 2024

West Africa Container Terminal partners with Starsight Energy to deploy solar energy, replacing 30% of diesel power, and reducing carbon emi...

New terminal for Lagos

News1 Nov 2020

Sifax Group has opened a new container terminal at the Ijora Causeway Jetty in Lagos. The off-dock facility has been developed on an 11-acre...

APM Terminals to set up ICDs across Nigeria

News1 Jun 2018

APM Terminals has confirmed local press reports that it is to set up a network of ICDs across Nigeria....

Lekki secures funding

News26 Mar 2015

The Tolaram Group of Singapore, which has the 45-year build operate and transfer concession for the port of Lekki, Nigeria, has secured fund...

Containers are star performers in Nigeria

News17 Apr 2014

The number of containers handled at Nigeria’s main ports soared by more than 15% in 2013 and exceeded 1M TEU for the first time....

Konecranes books 10 RTGs

News22 Sep 2011

The new order for 50t SWL, 16-wheel machines has come from an operator in Nigeria...

Chinese firms buy Zim’s Lagos terminal stake

News8 Nov 2010

Israel’s Zim Lines has announced that it has signed a deal to sell its 47.5% stake in Tin-Can Container Terminal in Nigeria (TICT) to a Ch...

New port sought for Lagos

News6 Jul 2010

Nigeria's new president, Goodluck Jonathan, is keen to press ahead in his short time in power...

Hub ports set to change Africa’s “milk run” model of container routes?

News24 Mar 2009

Transnet strategist Mervin Chetty argues the case for a container hub in South Africa...

Congestion at Lagos

News1 Jul 2006

Congestion at the Lagos ports in Nigeria has prompted the government to direct vessels waiting for berthing space to move to ports in the ea...

Tin Can Island concession

News1 Jul 2005

Nigeria’s Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE) has named a shortlist of 54 interested parties for the contract to manage the port of Tin Ca...

Lagos problems

News15 Apr 2002

Congestion problems at Lagos recently forced Hual to suspend ro-ro calls at the Nigerian port.The problems became critical last year when th...

Liebherrs for Nigeria

News1 Dec 2001

Austria-based harbour mobile crane manufacturer Liebherr-Werk Nenzing GmbH has recently supplied six model LHM 250s for container and genera...

WACT teams up with Starsight Energy to install solar system

New terminal for Lagos

APM Terminals to set up ICDs across Nigeria

Lekki secures funding

Containers are star performers in Nigeria

Konecranes books 10 RTGs

Chinese firms buy Zim’s Lagos terminal stake

New port sought for Lagos

Hub ports set to change Africa’s “milk run” model of container routes?

Congestion at Lagos

Tin Can Island concession

Lagos problems

Liebherrs for Nigeria

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Captain’s body found, four missing after ship sank near Taiwan

Konecranes reports higher profit, port solutions H1 order intake down 40%

NWSA calls for bids for Terminal 5 refrigerated container electrical upgrades

DP World Fremantle implements new weigh-in-motion system

Vessel detained in Haifa, seafarers abandoned in Yemen

WACT teams up with Starsight Energy to install solar system

New terminal for Lagos

APM Terminals to set up ICDs across Nigeria

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Captain’s body found, four missing after ship sank near Taiwan

Konecranes reports higher profit, port solutions H1 order intake down 40%

NWSA calls for bids for Terminal 5 refrigerated container electrical upgrades

DP World Fremantle implements new weigh-in-motion system

Vessel detained in Haifa, seafarers abandoned in Yemen

Fire breaks out on Maersk container ship, one crew member dead

Cape Town Container Terminal takes delivery of 15 new terminal tractors

Fire on Maersk Frankfurt nearly out

Valenciaport’s container traffic up 14% in H1

Tanker capsizes near Manila claiming one life, cargo ship sinks off coast Taiwan