{"id":223636,"date":"2026-02-13T00:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T22:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-msc-ellen-vessel-docks-at-walvis-bay\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T00:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T22:30:18","slug":"namibia-msc-ellen-vessel-docks-at-walvis-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-msc-ellen-vessel-docks-at-walvis-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: MSC Ellen Vessel Docks At Walvis Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\"><em>The Namibian Ports Authority (Namport) has announced the arrival and berthing of the MSC Ellen, a state-of-the-art Neo Panamax container vessel, at the Port of Walvis Bay.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">In statement issued on Wednesday, Namport says the vessel&#8217;s call further cements the port&#8217;s reputation as a premier, reliable ,and competitive gateway for both regional and international trade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The MSC Ellen measures approximately 347 metres in length and has a carrying capacity exceeding 8 200 twenty-foot equivalent units,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602120630.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Namibian Ports Authority (Namport) has announced the arrival and berthing of the MSC Ellen, a state-of-the-art Neo Panamax container vessel, at the Port of Walvis Bay. In statement issued on Wednesday, Namport says the vessel&#8217;s call further cements the port&#8217;s reputation as a premier, reliable ,and competitive gateway for both regional and international trade. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":223637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,8611,11115,9100,18506,4706,724,257,254,9845,10438],"class_list":["post-223636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bay","tag-docks","tag-ellen","tag-msc","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vessel","tag-walvis"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}