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CMA CGM signs an agreement in order to manage the new container terminal of the Nigerian port of Lekki
The landing place will be completed to end 2020
April 16, 2018
The French shipowning group CMA CGM has undersigned a memorandum of understanding in order to manage the new container terminal of the port of Lekki. The agreement is signed with the Lekki Port LFTZ Enterprise (LPLE), joint venture that the new Nigerian port will manage and that it is participated by the Tolaram group of Singapore, the government of the Lagos and the Nigerian Ports Authority. We remember that last May the LPLE and the Lekki International Container Terminal Services LFTZ Enterprise (LICTSE), branch of terminalista group Philippine ICTSI, had agreed the revocation of the contract stipulated for the realization and management of the new container terminal(on 26 May 2017).
The MoU previews that CMA Terminals, branch terminalista of the group CMA CGM, will be in charge of the management and maintenance of the Nigerian terminal and the commercialization of its activities. According to the last forecasts, the container terminal - that it will be the only one of Nigeria in deep waters - will be completed to the end of 2020 and will have two docks for a total of 1.200 linear meters of approaches with depth of the backdrop of -16 meters equipped with 13 cranes of dock. The annual ability to traffic of the terminal will be pairs to 2,5 million teu.
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The French shipowning group CMA CGM has undersigned a memorandum of understanding in order to manage the new container terminal of the port of Lekki. The agreement is signed with the Lekki Port LFTZ Enterprise (LPLE), joint venture that the new Nigerian port will manage and that it is participated by the Tolaram group of Singapore, the government of the Lagos and the Nigerian Ports Authority. We remember that last May the LPLE and the Lekki International Container Terminal Services LFTZ Enterprise (LICTSE), branch of terminalista group Philippine ICTSI, had agreed the revocation of the contract stipulated for the realization and management of the new container terminal
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