75% Of US-Flagged Ships Diverted Around Africa Due To Security Concerns
This alternative route nearly doubles the travel time between Europe and Asia, adding an estimated $1 million in extra costs per trip.
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This alternative route nearly doubles the travel time between Europe and Asia, adding an estimated $1 million in extra costs per trip.
South Africa’s Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) is looking for an operator for a multipurpose terminal in Durban.
South Africa could turn to Russia or Iran to expand its civilian nuclear power capacity, a senior government minister said, a stance analysts say could deepen a rift with the United States and further delay the renewal of a strategic energy pact.
South Africa is all set to develop its first liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal at the Port of Richards Bay.
The global seaborne gas trading map is set for a shake-up with news of the first LNG import terminal in South Africa.
Following a series of casualties off its coast, South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa has signed the Marine Pollution (Prevention of Pollution from Ships) Amendment Bill into law, strengthening South Africa’s ability to combat ship-related pollution.
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MSC has announced it is enhancing its network in Southern Africa to facilitate the trade with Europe and other regions.
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EQ8 Crew has been launched in South Africa, aiming to create a market for South African seafarers.
The South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA) has confirmed that an aging fishing vessel had a serious shipboard fire off Gansbaai on Sunday, forcing the crew to abandon ship.
A South African court temporarily blocked a deal between the nation’s state-owned logistics firm and a company owned by Filipino billionaire Enrique Razon to expand and run sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest container port after A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S challenged the award.
The South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA) has initiated a search operation for five empty containers lost overboard by the MV MSC Taranto, a Mediterranean Shipping Company containership, off the coast of South Africa.
An MSC operated vessel is the latest to lose containers overboard off South Africa while transiting the Cape of Good Hope.
The South African authorities are seeking to identify the container ship responsible for bottles of pharmaceuticals washing up on the country’s coast.
The South African Maritime Safety Authority reports the successful evacuation of the crew from an anchor handling vessel operating off the south coast servicing one of the floating oil platforms.
Survey efforts are continuing along the South African coast after an MSC vessel was believed to have spilled an unknown quantity of oil into Algoa Bay area near Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) last Saturday, September 7.
The South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA) the Liberian-flagged MSC Antonia lost 46 containers overboard while a further 305 boxes suffered damage in the Indian Ocean corridor on 28 August.
More than 200 people are being drawn in to ramp up the clean-up of oil from the grounded Ultra Galaxy general cargo vessel after the last few days’ wintry and stormy weather on South Africa’s west coast teared the wreck further into pieces.
A second CMA CGM ship in a month, the CMA CGM Belem. has suffered a container stack collapse while transiting the Cape of Good Hope in severe weather conditions.
Exxaro Resources, a South African coal producer which is seeking to diversify into critical minerals, is close to securing a deal to buy manganese or copper assets and could announce an acquisition this year, a senior executive told Reuters.
Coastal clean-up operations are intensifying on South Africa’s west coast following an oil spill caused by the break-up of the grounded cargo ship, MV Ultra Galaxy.
The bulker that capsized and washed ashore on the west coast of South Africa broke up during storms over the weekend.