First LNG-powered Container Ship Berths At APM Terminals, Apapa

The archetypal liquefied earthy state (LNG) powered instrumentality ship, the MV Sapphire, operated by Gold Star Line, has been berthed astatine APM Terminals, Apapa, Lagos.

The vessel, built successful 2024 and sailing nether the emblem of Singapore, has a carrying capableness of 7,800 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs).

With her size and precocious LNG propulsion system, the MV Sapphire represents a important measurement guardant successful sustainable shipping operations serving Nigeria and the wider West African region.
Speaking astatine the event, the managing manager of Lagos and Niger Shipping Agency Limited (LANSAL), Todd Rives, who represents Gold Star Line successful Nigeria, described the berthing arsenic a historical milestone.

He recalled that Gold Star Line, incorporated successful 1958, remains 1 of the oldest shipping agencies operating successful Nigeria and has a longstanding committedness to lawsuit service.

He stressed that the accomplishment of the MV Sapphire was much than conscionable a regular docking, but alternatively a awesome of advancement and partnership, designed to trim voyage costs, beforehand operational efficiency, and reenforce biology sustainability. According to him, the vas is the opening of a caller epoch successful Nigerian maritime trade, and helium expressed optimism that her sister ships would besides telephone astatine the larboard soon.

The APM Terminals Apapa commercialized manager, Kayode Daniel, described the infinitesimal arsenic a important accomplishment for the larboard and underlined the shared committedness to sustainable maritime practices.

He explained that shipping lines globally are moving unneurotic to trim emissions, successful enactment with planetary sustainability targets.

He praised LANSAL for deploying LNG-powered vessels successful enactment of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, reaffirming that it was aligned with the planetary APM Terminals ESG goals, to determination to cleaner sources of vigor thereby reducing c emissions.

The larboard manager of the Lagos Port Complex Apapa, Adebowale Lawal, represented by the main larboard information officer, Bukar Kaumi, commended Gold Star Line and LANSAL for their foresight.

He noted that the maritime manufacture is evolving arsenic larger vessels statesman to berth astatine Nigerian ports and stressed the value of creating an enabling situation for specified developments.

Lawal explained that LNG vessels are captious successful addressing the challenges of clime alteration portion reducing costs and driving economies of scale. He assured stakeholders of the Nigerian Ports Authority’s committedness to ensuring a viable and competitory commercialized environment.

In his remarks, the controller of the Apapa Customs Command, Comptroller Emmanuel Osoba, congratulated some the shipping enactment and the terminal relation for what helium described arsenic the dawn of a caller section successful maritime transportation.

Compt. Oshoba, represented by Deputy Comptroller Musa Sama, lauded the adoption of LNG exertion arsenic a bold measurement towards a cleaner and much businesslike logistics chain, reaffirming the Nigeria Customs Service’s committedness to enactment and collaborate with stakeholders to guarantee seamless commercialized facilitation and to alteration businesses successful Apapa to thrive.