Nigeria’s New Port Doubles Cargo Capacity
by Ayodeji Olukoju (University of Lagos) Three-quarters of the world is covered by water and up to 90% of world trade is seaborne. Seaports and shipping are critical to the...
“I was on a flight back from SFO to LAX on February 9th and we flew over the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach before turning in to land at the airport,” writes photographer Mike Kelley, but the scene below his aircraft was unlike anything he had ever witnessed.
As a professional photographer, he had seen the port from the air from time to time, and at the most, he says he would notice 4 to 5 ships at anchor.
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