Roll-on/roll-off (RoRo) shipping exists, and plenty of companies use it — a vehicle is driven onto a vessel and driven off again at the other end, no container required. It's usually cheaper. It's also the reason a lot of imported vehicles arrive with dents, scratches, or missing parts that weren't there at pickup.
We ship every vehicle in a fully enclosed, sealed 20ft or 40ft steel container instead. The container is sealed at our depot in Halifax, Montreal, or Baltimore, and it isn't opened again until it reaches our warehouse in Lagos. Nobody drives the vehicle at any point in the journey. Nobody has access to the interior. The seal number on the container when it leaves is the same seal number when it arrives — that's the whole chain of custody in one detail.
This matters even more given how many of our clients are buying a vehicle sight-unseen through our sourcing service. If you never inspected the car in person before it shipped, the last thing you want is additional handling risk on top of that. Container shipping removes an entire category of things that can go wrong between pickup and delivery.
It costs a bit more than RoRo. We think that's the right trade for a vehicle you're trusting us with across an ocean — which is exactly why it's the only method we offer.