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Good tidings for Lamu as port receives its 19th vessel since launch two years ago

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A container being offloaded from a cargo ship at Lamu Port, November 9, 2022. [Omondi Onyango, Standard]

The port of Lamu received its 19th vessel since it started operations in 2021. A container carrier, mv Boston Trader, called at the facility on Sunday with transhipment cargo destined for Zanzibar.

The ship, with a length of 146.47 metres and sailing under the flag of Liberia on her maiden call, was laden with 296 Zanzibar-bound full containers for discharge and was expected to load 407 transhipment containers for Zanzibar.

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