On the brand new quay of the Côte d'Ivoire Terminal (CIT), the gigantic blue gantries catch the containers of the
moored
MSC Sonia .
In an aerial ballet, the colorful boxes twirl at the end of the cables to be placed on the electric trucks waiting below.
MSC
Sonia
is a "14,000 boxes", or in the jargon of logisticians, a ship capable of transporting 14,000 twenty-foot equivalent containers (TEUs).
Coming from Shanghai, she is the first ship of such size to dock in Abidjan: with her 16 meter draft - hear the vertical distance between the waterline and the bottom of the keel - it was impossible for her to in November 2022, to cross the Vridi canal which leads ships from the ocean to the lagoon sheltering the port of Abidjan.
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