Longshore Worker Fatally Crushed Aboard Containership [Lagos, Nigeria – 25 December 2024]

Posted by admin on Dec 27, 2024 in Bulletins

Information received today at Blueoceana Company instructs us that an as-yet unnamed longshore worker lost his life while working aboard M/V MSC SAMU (See photo below) on Christmas Day.

Media reports stipulate that while in the employ of Five Star Logistics, Ltd, a marine terminal contractor operating Berths 9 & 10 at Lagos port’s Tin Can Island Terminal D, the worker received crushing injuries to his head inflicted by one of the operator’s mobile harbor cranes. While those reports (See links below) do not impart further details of the accident, we’ve initiated inquiries and hope to have additional information. If and when such details are forthcoming, we will update this post accordingly.

Links to Media Accounts:

CHRISTMAS DAY TRAGEDY- Dockworker Dies At Tin Can Port (122524)Download

Expect more deaths at Tin-Can Port, MWUN raises alarm over safety issues (122524)Download

***Above:*** Five Star Logistics, Ltd is said to deploy two (2) Liebherr mobile harbor cranes of the type and size depicted here at the Berths mentioned above.

Above: Orientation of Lagos port, Nigeria