2005 Articles Archive








Dec 30, 2005
Author: P&S
2006 is expected to bring further emergencies and even greater demands on donors ...
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Dec 19, 2005
Author: P&S
Our news bulletins go into hibernation until 3 January 2006 ...
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Dec 18, 2005
Author: P&S
Clipper Round the World Race update ...
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Dec 16, 2005
Author: P&S
Durban Clipper wins race to Western Australia ...
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Dec 15, 2005
Author: P&S
A selction of African shipping news for Africa ...
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Dec 14, 2005
Author: P&S
African shipping news for Africa ...
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Dec 13, 2005
Author: P&S
African shipping news for Africa ...
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Dec 12, 2005
Author: P&S
African shipping news for Africa ...
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Dec 9, 2005
Author: P&S
African shipping news for Africa ...
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Dec 8, 2005
Author: P&S
African shipping news of interest to Africa ...
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Dec 7, 2005
Author: P&S
African shipping news for Africa ...
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Dec 6, 2005
Author: P&S
daily bulletin of shipping news for Africa ...
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Dec 2, 2005
Author: P&S
African shipping news for Africa ...
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Dec 1, 2005
Author: P&S
African shipping news for Africa ...
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Nov 30, 2005
Author: P&S
African shipping news for Africa ...
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Nov 29, 2005
Author: P&S
African shipping news for Africa ...
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Nov 28, 2005
Author: P&S
African shipping news for Africa ...
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Nov 25, 2005
Author: P&S
African shipping news for Africa ...
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Nov 24, 2005
Author: P&S
African shipping news for Africa ...
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Nov 23, 2005
Author: P&S
African shipping news for Africa ...
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Nov 22, 2005
Author: P&S
Shipping news for Africa ...
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Nov 21, 2005
Author: P&S
shipping news for and from Africa ...
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Nov 20, 2005
Author: P&S
Nine yachts now 'home' and safe in Durban ...
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Nov 19, 2005
Author: P&S
Clipper Race update, Saturday morning ...
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Nov 18, 2005
Author: P&S
shipping news from Africa ...
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Nov 17, 2005
Author: P&S
shipping news from Africa ...
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Nov 16, 2005
Author: P&S
latest shipping news from Africa ...
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Nov 15, 2005
Author: P&S
shipping news of an African interest ...
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Nov 14, 2005
Author: P&S
daily shipping news with an African slant ...
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Nov 12, 2005
Author: P&S
marine pilot operations at the port of Durban recommenced at about 10.30 this morning following ...
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Nov 12, 2005
Author: P&S
The port of Durban is again closed this morning due to ...
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Nov 11, 2005
Author: P&S
shipping news from and for Africa ...
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Nov 10, 2005
Author: P&S
Our apologies - we published the wrong news item last night, being largely a repeat of the day before. Here is the copy as it should have been for Thursday 10 November 2005.
Today's news follows ...
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Nov 10, 2005
Author: P&S
shipping news with an African interest ...
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Nov 9, 2005
Author: P&S
today's shipping news with an African interest ...
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Nov 8, 2005
Author: P&S
today's bulletin of shipping news of African interest ...
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Nov 7, 2005
Author: P&S
shipping news of interest to Africa ...
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Nov 4, 2005
Author: P&S
shipping news from Africa ...
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Nov 3, 2005
Author: P&S
shipping news from Africa ...
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Nov 2, 2005
Author: P&S
daily shipping news from Africa ...
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Nov 1, 2005
Author: P&S
daily shipping news from Africa ...
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Oct 31, 2005
Author: P&S
Shipping news of interest to the African region ...
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Oct 28, 2005
Author: P&S
shipping news from around the continent of Africa ...
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Oct 27, 2005
Author: P&S
daily shipping news from the African continent ...
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Oct 26, 2005
Author: P&S
shipping news from around Africa ...
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Oct 25, 2005
Author: P&S
Shipping news from around the African continent with emphasis today on Southern Africa ...
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Oct 24, 2005
Author: P&S
shipping and maritime news from around Africa ...
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Oct 21, 2005
Author: P&S
Shipping news from around the African continent ...
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Oct 20, 2005
Author: P&S
shipping news from around the African continent ...
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Oct 19, 2005
Author: P&S
a selection of shipping news of interest to Africa ...
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Oct 18, 2005
Author: P&S
maritime news with an African interest ...
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Oct 17, 2005
Author: P&S
maritime news from the African region ...
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Oct 15, 2005
Author: P&S
Sheltam will operate the railway between Mombasa, Nairobi, Kampala and Kasese near the DRC border for the next 25 years ...
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Oct 15, 2005
Author: P&S
South Africa’s Sheltam Rail wins bid to operate Kenya and Uganda Railways for 25 years ...
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Oct 14, 2005
Author: P&S
a daily dose of shipping news from parts of the African continent ...
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Oct 13, 2005
Author: P&S
today's news from around Africa with a maritime interest ...
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Oct 12, 2005
Author: P&S
Today's shipping news from around the African region ...
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Oct 11, 2005
Author: P&S
daily shipping news of interest to the African region ...
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Oct 10, 2005
Author: P&S
shipping news from the African region ...
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Oct 7, 2005
Author: P&S
maritime news in brief from the African region ...
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Oct 6, 2005
Author: P&S
Today's maritime and shipping news in brief from around Africa ...
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Oct 5, 2005
Author: P&S
today's maritime news from Africa ...
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Oct 4, 2005
Author: P&S
shipping news from around the African region ...
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Oct 3, 2005
Author: P&S
daily maritime news from around Africa ...
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Sep 30, 2005
Author: P&S
daily shipping news from the southern African region ...
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Sep 29, 2005
Author: P&S
Daily shipping news from South Africa and the region ...
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Sep 28, 2005
Author: P&S
Today's shipping news headlines ...
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Sep 28, 2005
Author: P&S
The following appeal is issued in Portuguese and is an appeal for assistance in searching for survivors of the missing yacht Moquini (see our earlier news reports).
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Sep 27, 2005
Author: P&S
today's headline news concerning Africa and the region ...
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Sep 26, 2005
Author: P&S
today's maritime news in brief ...
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Sep 25, 2005
Author: P&S
hopes for missing yacht Moquini raised as yacht seen briefly in search area ...
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Sep 23, 2005
Author: P&S
snippets of daily shipping related news ...
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Sep 23, 2005
Author: P&S
crew jad to scramble to safety as their schooner sank under them last Sunday ...
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Sep 22, 2005
Author: P&S
today's shipping news in brief ...
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Sep 21, 2005
Author: P&S
todays' shipping news in brief ...
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Sep 20, 2005
Author: P&S
today's news in brief ...
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Sep 19, 2005
Author: P&S
news items of the day ...
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Sep 17, 2005
Author: P&S
The Durban container ship Umfolozi has been in collision with a Richards Bay dredger outside Walvis Bay harbour ...
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Sep 16, 2005
Author: P&S
a selection of headline maritime-related news for Ports & Ships readers ...
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Sep 15, 2005
Author: P&S
a selection of headline news reports for Ports & Ships readers ...
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Sep 12, 2005
Author: P&S
a 12 million tonne expansion is well underway at the port of Saldanha iron ore terminal ...
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Sep 8, 2005
Author: P&S
things look bleak for efforts to remove the cargo of logs from the stricken Kiperousa before ...
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Sep 7, 2005
Author: Heidi Bransby
Dive Solutions
Commercial divers working on the Mhlathuze Water sea outfall pipeline spoke yesterday about their involvement over the weekend in the dramatic search, rescue and recovery of the crew and helicopter wreckage ...
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Sep 3, 2005
Author: P&S
An engineer on board the port helicopter at Richards Bay is missing, feared dead tonight after the helicopter in which he was working crashed off the port entrance today ...
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Sep 3, 2005
Author: P&S
The Richards Bay port helicopter used for pilot transfers crashed a short while ago in the entrance channel ...
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Sep 2, 2005
Author: P&S
South African container terminal are to undergo vertically expansion following an order for three-high straddle carriers ...
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Sep 2, 2005
Author: P&S
The owner of a heavylift ship has been fined for spilling 40 litres of oil ...
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Sep 1, 2005
Author: P&S
The port of Ngqura, better known as Coega has escalated by approximately R900,000 to reach R4.1 Billion ...
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Sep 1, 2005
Author: P&S
It’s been a good year for Port Elizabeth harbour ...
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Aug 22, 2005
Author: P&S
German tourism and shipping group TUI, the parent body of Hapag-Lloyd is set to become the new owner of CP Ships, following ...
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Aug 22, 2005
Author: P&S
Ivan Clark delcines to comment on reports that Grindrod will re-enter the liner trades replacing P&O Nedlloyd on the ...
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Aug 17, 2005
Author: Grindrod Group
Grindrod’s interim results promises another exceptional year for shareholders ...
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Aug 17, 2005
Author: Kingsley Holgate
there's a further installment from Kingsley Holgate's One Net One Life adventure - read it in SEA STORIES ...
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Aug 17, 2005
Author: P&S
The first of three post-panamax IMPSA shoreside gantry cranes moved into final position this week ...
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Aug 14, 2005
Author: SHG
there was drama in Table Bay last week when the Cape Town deputy sheriff was threatened ...
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Aug 11, 2005
Author: P&S
Maersk Line to take over as new branding for both AP Moller-Maersk and P&O Nedlloyd ...
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Aug 8, 2005
Author: P&S
Following criticism that little was being done with the Nacala railway concession, four locomotives were loaded at Durban harbour this weekend ...
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Aug 4, 2005
Author: P&S
Marine Bulk Carriers, the Cape Town-based black owned shipping company, expects to commence its anchor handling supply vessel contract with PetroSA ...
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Aug 4, 2005
Author: P&S
A radio interview with Kingsley Holgate, leader of the African Rainbow ‘One Net – One Life’ expedition can be read in the SEA STORIES column of Ports & Ships ...
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Aug 4, 2005
Author: P&S
The Danish salvage company SvitzerWijsmuller has been awarded a contract to remove the balance of cargo from the grounded bulker Kiperousa
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Aug 1, 2005
Author: P&S
Ocean Africa's largest container ship to work the South African coastal service has entered service ...
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Jul 30, 2005
Author: P&S
Angola South Line's new vessel on the South Africa-Angola service enables Durban to be included in ...
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Jul 30, 2005
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Halala Toyota! Halala South Africa! Halala eThekwini! ...
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Jul 25, 2005
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SAPO salutes the women of Africa ...
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Jul 24, 2005
Author: P&S
all hopes of salvaging the grounded logger Kiperousa were dashed today ...
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Jul 19, 2005
Author: JP Louw, DEAT
The Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (DEAT) today seized the deep-sea trawler "Sandile", its gear, equipment, stores and cargo including ...
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Jul 19, 2005
Author: P&S
Safmarine says that the recent addition of a second direct call at the Yantian Terminal in the Chinese port of Shenzhen has been of benefit to South African importers ...
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Jul 17, 2005
Author: P&S
Grindrod acquires a 50% share of UK-based marine fuel specialist Cockett Marine Oil ...
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Jul 16, 2005
Author: P&S
The first interstate joint fishery patrol along both east and west coasts at the same time has been completed ...
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Jul 16, 2005
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SA Port Operations delivers a Billion Rand operating profit ...
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Jul 12, 2005
Author: P&S
Efforts to refloat the bulk carrier Kiperousa, which went aground off the Eastern Cape coast south of East London on 7 June, were renewed at the weekend with the arrival ...
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Jul 9, 2005
Author: P&S
A slight setback has delayed the start of the next phase of the African Rainbow expedition ...
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Jul 6, 2005
Author: P&S
Transnet Ltd's yearend results reveal a solid turnaround after last year's losses
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Jul 6, 2005
Author: P&S
John J Boudreau has been appointed president of Safmarine Inc, the US-based operation of ...
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Jul 5, 2005
Author: P&S
SS Norway arrived off Cape Town last Friday, en route to a mystery destination ...
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Jun 25, 2005
Author: P&S
Eastern Cape newspapers carried the story this week of a South Korean fishing vessel, Dong Won 630, arrested at sea after a dramatic sea chase involving one of Sea Fishery’s new patrol ships ...
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Jun 24, 2005
Author: P&S
South African ports and associated services are bracing themselves for a nationwide strike that has been called ...
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Jun 23, 2005
Author: P&S
Like vultures hovering around a fresh kill, three additional tugs are on standby to assist with the salvage of the stranded logger Kiperousa ...
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Jun 21, 2005
Author: P&S
Salvors are expected to begin further attempts at refloating the grounded bulker Kiperousa ...
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Jun 17, 2005
Author: P&S
A French medical laboratory says Marburg hemorrhagic fever is not present on the bulker Clipper Lancaster ...
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Jun 15, 2005
Author: P&S
Amidst fears that the ship may be the bearer of the dreaded Marburg virus, French authorities on the island of La Reunion are enforcing ...
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Jun 13, 2005
Author: P&S
Salvage efforts at the weekend received a setback when the salvage tug also struck a reef ...
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Jun 10, 2005
Author: Ian Hunter & P&S
Update on the salvage of the logger Kiperousa ...
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Jun 8, 2005
Author: Robert Young: Marine Director Unicorn Shipping
Something old, something new is what’s recently been happening in Unicorn Shipping ...
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Jun 8, 2005
Author: P&S
The crew of the stricken bulker Kiperousa were taken off their vessel last night ...
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Jun 7, 2005
Author: Terry Hutson
Heading off into Africa on an year-long adventure is old hat for explorer Kingsley Holgate and his family ...
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Jun 7, 2005
Author: P&S
The dry bulker Kieperousa has gone aground along the Eastern Cape coast near Hamburg, southwest of East London ...
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May 30, 2005
Author: P&S
A nationwide port strike that was threatened for 31 May (tomorrow) has been averted, following the ...
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May 29, 2005
Author: Bruce Dunn, SMD Telecommunications
A successful transition from the Inmarsat I3 Satellite to the new generation I4 Satellite in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) took place on Saturday 28 May 2005 ...
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May 28, 2005
Author: Brenda Horne, MCLI
The Maputo Corridor Logistics Initiative is a year old and ...
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May 26, 2005
Author: P&S
Durban-based Grindrod Group is becoming something of a newsman’s dream – every week or so seems to bring ...
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May 25, 2005
Author: P&S
SATAWU, the trade union representing most port workers said this afternoon it had temporarily suspended next week's national port strike ...
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May 24, 2005
Author: P&S
Safmarine has announced several new services connecting with South Africa ...
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May 24, 2005
Author: P&S
The South African Transport & Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) has announced that it is calling a strike involving 8000 workers at the country's harbours ...
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May 24, 2005
Author: Terry Hutson
Coega acquired its first tenant last week, but serious questions remain ...
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May 21, 2005
Author: P&S
The detained Brazilian fruit juice tanker Ouro do Brasil was freed from detention in Port Elizabeth this week and has sailed ...
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May 20, 2005
Author: P&S
The days of ships emitting dirty smoke are over. As from yesterday ...
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May 17, 2005
Author: P&S
When the German general cargo vessel BBC Plata called at Durban last week to ...
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May 16, 2005
Author: P&S
Ruth First, the third new sea fishery patrol boat, will be handed over this Wednesday ...
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May 16, 2005
Author: P&S
Mitsui OSK Lines and Pacific International Lines have announced a joint fixed-day service linking the Far East with South Africa and the East Coast of South America ...
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May 16, 2005
Author: P&S
Grindrod announced today it had acquired a 50% share in Sheltham Locomotive & Rail Services ...
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May 16, 2005
Author: Ian Hunter : Manager Maritime Services, South African Weather Service
the combination of wind and swell may have been a factor with the relatively small target presented by the trawler ...
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May 11, 2005
Author: P&S
after more than fifty years of calling at SA ports Lykes Line is set to disappear under a new brand name ...
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May 11, 2005
Author: P&S
AP Møller – Maersk this morning confirmed reports of a takeover of P&O Nedlloyd ...
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May 10, 2005
Author: P&S
MSC has bought a ship for its South Africa - Angola service, with a second to follow ...
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May 10, 2005
Author: P&S
An offer by AP Møller for the Dutch shipping group P&O Nedlloyd is in the offing today ...
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May 8, 2005
Author: P&S
The search for 14 missing trawlermen from the chokka boat (squid) Lindsay was called off earlier today ...
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May 7, 2005
Author: P&S
changes aplenty are in store on the South Amercia - South Africa - Far East services ...
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May 5, 2005
Author: P&S
Transnet reveals new team to head up National Ports Authority, Spoornet and Transwerk ...
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May 3, 2005
Author: Fred Meintjes
a new Cape Town-based tanker ship broking company was announced earlier today ...
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Apr 26, 2005
Author: Kingsley Holgate & Lesley van Duffelen
In rural African villages where most of the pregnant women and children sleep under insecticide-impregnated mosquito nets, the rate of illness ...
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Apr 23, 2005
Author: P&S
a new harbour and privatised port terminals are just some of the plans unveiled recently in Nairobi ...
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Apr 22, 2005
Author: P&S
Fred Olsen's new fast ferry Benchijigua called at Cape Town today en route ...
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Apr 22, 2005
Author: P&S
picture of the Nordsun's damaged bows ...
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Apr 22, 2005
Author: P&S 13.26
MSC says Nordsun was sailing too fast and without clearance ...
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Apr 22, 2005
Author: P&S
a reefer vessel named Nova Scotia is reported to have gone aground off the Falklands ...
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Apr 22, 2005
Author: P&S
The container ship MSC Katie was run aground onto a reef off Mauritius early this morning following a collision with the Maersk-Sealand/Safmarine charter vessel Nordsun ...
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Apr 21, 2005
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Apr 20, 2005
Author: P&S
Japan’s Sanko Steamship Co announces a major financial investment in two Cape Town-based South African BEE companies ...
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Apr 19, 2005
Author: P&S
Grindrod reconfigures its black empowerment partners in the shipping industry ...
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April 19 2005 advertisement
SAPO congratulates General Motors SA on securing the contract for the assembly of the new super luxury Hummer H3 ...
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Apr 19, 2005
Author: P&S
What caused the Spanish fishing vessel Yes Sir to sink off Madagascar? ...
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Apr 14, 2005
Author: P&S
The fishing vessel Yes Sir is reported to have sunk off the South African coast. ...
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Apr 14, 2005
Author: P&S
port users will be relieved at the news of contracts aimed at completing the new docks at Durban's Point ...
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Apr 12, 2005
Author: P&S
government speaks sharply on container surcharges - lines will lift charges from 1 May ...
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Apr 12, 2005
Author: P&S
Captain Derrick Cooke, former port captain of East London and Durban is now in the thick of things in Nigeria ...
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Apr 7, 2005
Author: P&S
There’s nothing too remarkable about another car carrier docking at the port of Durban ...
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Apr 6, 2005
Author: P&S
All six crew from the fishing vessel Rochelle, which went aground on a rocky outcrop off Morris Point in the early hours of last night, are safe ...
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Apr 6, 2005
Author: P&S
Walvis Bay received ISO 14001 accreditation ...
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Apr 1, 2005
Author: P&S
CMA CGM has announced a new weekly service to operate between Asia ports, South Africa and South America ...
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Mar 30, 2005
Author: Mike Meehan
an interview with Bill O'Neil, president of ICS and former secretary general of the IMO ...
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Mar 24, 2005
Author: P&S
but concerns expressed about rail and road service to Zimbabwe
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Mar 24, 2005
Author: P&S
The Dutch port company Cornelder, which took over management of the Mozambique port of Quelimane last week will ...
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Mar 22, 2005
Author: P&S
When the call went out to assistance with shipping containers of tsunami relief materail, the answer ...
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Mar 16, 2005
Author: P&S
The aim of creating 25,000 jobs in the South African maritime industry is realistic, says ...
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Mar 8, 2005
Author: P&S
This morning a naming ceremony was held in Cape Town harbour for the latest and largest container ship on the South Africa trades, P&O Nedlloyd Heemskerck ...
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Feb 28, 2005
Author: P&S
Investments worth more than R100 million in the port of Durban follows the signing of ...
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Feb 28, 2005
Author: P&S
Safmarine has announced details of its revised schedule for the new joint SAFARI service between South Africa and the Far East ...
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Feb 28, 2005
Author: P&S
Container surcharges of between US0 and 0 per TEU have been raised on some West African ports by member lines of ...
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Feb 27, 2005
Author: P&S
A continued strong world shipping market and low fixed costs across an enlarged fleet has contributed substantially ...
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Feb 27, 2005
Author: P&S
The MSC container ship MSC Denisse, en route for Durban from the Far East, was left drifting without power in the Indian Ocean late last ...
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Feb 25, 2005
Author: P&S
during the past 48 hours Ports & Ships readers will have experienced difficulties ...
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Feb 24, 2005
Author: JP Louw, Dept of Environmental Affairs & Tourism
the latest sea fishery patrol vessel Lilian Ngoyi strikes again, arresting ...
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Feb 15, 2005
Author: Grindrod
In a major expansion of its fleet, Grindrod has bought ...
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Feb 14, 2005
Author: P&S
High-flying Grindrod Group last week took over the extensive Uniroute Logistics properties in Durban, Cape Town and Johannesburg ...
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Feb 13, 2005
Author: Capt. Qaisar Qayyum
The following lines poignantly captures the predicament facing Pakistani (and other Middle-Eastern) seafarers who are denied civil liberties and shore leave onto American territory as a consequence of the events of 9/11 ...
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Feb 9, 2005
Author: P&S
Unicorn's VLCC - very little crude carrier - arrived in Durban today to load molasses ...
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Feb 9, 2005
Author: P&S
The world's largest purpose built LPG FPSO arrives in Cape Town for ...
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Feb 9, 2005
Author: P&S
Durban-based Grindrod takes a controlling share in the Matola and Walvis Bay coal terminals ...
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Feb 7, 2005
Author: by JP Louw
Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (DEAT)
The first of South Africa's new inshore sea fishery patrol boats, Lilian Ngoyi is rapidly making a name for itself ...
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Jan 31, 2005
Author: P&S
Wood chips are in the news this week with the return of wood chip exports from Durban, coinciding with the hot commissioning of a new woodchip loader at Richards Bay ...
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Jan 28, 2005
Author: P&S
The three-masted Canadian barquentine Concordia will arrive in Durban at 10am on Sunday morning (30 January) after sailing from ...
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Jan 27, 2005
Author: P&S
Port users will generally be pleased with the 2005 port and container handling tariffs, announced yesterday by Transnet ...
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Jan 25, 2005
Author: P&S
it is only a matter of time before the problems at the port of Nacala are sorted out, says new ...
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Jan 25, 2005
Author: P&S
Rail traffic between Nacala and Malawi came to a halt last week within days of ...
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Jan 22, 2005
Author: P&S
Aberdeen in Scotland is now included on Safmarine's Europe - West Africa Oil Ports service ...
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Jan 22, 2005
Author: P&S
There’s still a glimmer of hope that maritime studies at Zululand’s Tisand Technical High School may be able to continue
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Jan 22, 2005
Author: P&S
Mombasa port users have been kept in the dark about a permanent replacement for the position of managing director of the Kenya Ports Authority ...
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Jan 18, 2005
Author: P&S
The Nacala Corridor comprising the deepwater port of Nacala and the railway to Malawi was transferred into the hands of private operators last week ...
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Jan 12, 2005
Author: Fred Meintjes, Marine Crew Services
When junior officer Ian Hlongwane stepped on the reefer vessel Snow Land in Cape Town last year he could not ...
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Jan 7, 2005
Author: P&S
The second of Safmarine’s two new container ships for the South Africa Europe Container Service (SAECS), Safmarine Nokwanda, was named earlier today ...
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Jan 7, 2005
Author: P&S
Safmarine Nomazwe, the first of two new Safmarine container ships, arrives on her maiden voyage in Cape Town ...
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Jan 4, 2005
Author: Bruce Dunn
The IMO lays down guidelines for the implementation of simplified voyage data recorders (S-VDR)for cargo ships ...
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