Lekki Deep Sea Port has taken delivery of three Super Post Panamax Ships to Shore (STS) Cranes and 10 Rubber Tyred Gantries (RTGs), which will be used at the container terminal.
The box terminal will be operated by Lekki Freeport Terminal, a subsidiary of the CMA CGM Group.
The STS and RTG cranes arrived at the Nigerian port with the vessel “ZHEN HUA 28”, which departed from Shanghai, China.
Du Ruogang, managing director of Lekki Port, explained that the cranes are highly sophisticated port equipment that will be used for the first time in Nigeria at Lekki Port, thus putting Nigeria at the forefront of container operations in West Africa and on the global maritime map.
“This is the first batch of our port machinery; In August, we will mobilise the second batch of two STS and five RTGs. By the time of the formal commencement of the port operations, there would be five STS and 15 RTGs in place,” Ruogang said.
The managing director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, Mohammed Bello-Koko, described the arrival of the cranes as “historic”.
