TODAY’S BULLETIN OF MARITIME NEWS
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- First View : MSC SINDY
- New bunker service and tanker for Port of Nacala
- New commitment to boost South Africa’s domestic shipping sector
- Exercise Atlasur XI 2018 gets underway as naval ships arrive
- African business leaders urged to take fresh look at opportunities in Africa
- Tanzania and Uganda sign agreement for gas pipeline
- New terror attack in northern Mozambique, villager killed
- Myanmar’s ghost ship has South African connection
- International Watch: Davies Turner remains positive on UK-Turkish trade
- Grindrod releases interim results – renewed strategic focus
- Expected Ship Arrivals and Ships in Port
- Cruise News and Naval Activities
- Pic of the Day : DAL KALAHARI
- The masthead today (Tuesday) is the Durban Container Terminal by night
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Showing a clear roll to port on the swell, Mediterranean Shipping Company’s container ship MSC SINDY (IMO number 9336048) is seen at sea off Durban during August. The 115,000-dwt ship with a maximum container capacity of 9580 TEU has become a regular feature at Durban and the Eastern Cape ports. With an overall length of 335 metres and a width of 45.6 metres she is among the bigger container ships to call. MSC Sindy was built in 2007 at the Samsung Shipbuilding & Heavy industries Co Ltd shipyard in South Korea as their hull number 1611. She originally operated with MSC under the name MSC Sylvana, that being the first name of the vessel’s registered owner. This picture is by Ken Malcolm
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NEW BUNKER SERVICE AND TANKER FOR PORT OF NACALA
A new bunker service has been introduced at the northern Mozambique port of Nacala, with effect from 1 September 2018.
Petromoc Bunkering Lda announced this to Bunkerspot which led with the news. The bunkering of ships at Nacala will take place in port as well as offshore for passing or waiting ships.
According to the report both IFO 180 CST and low sulphur marine gasoil (LSMGO) is available with deliveries being carried out by the tanker MT PRIMA (IMO 9427433), a 7500-dwt 111.5 metre long, 17.6m wide tanker flying the Maltese flag, built in 2010.
Petromoc Bunkering currently supplies bunker fuel in the Port of Maputo as well as at sea in the Mozambique Channel.
The company of Petromoc Bunkering Lda is a joint venture between state-owned Petroleos de Moçambique SA and Augusta Energy SA and supplies aviation fuel at most of Mozambique’s main airports. Petromoc is supposedly the largest oil marketing distributor in Mozambique while Geneva-based Augusta Energy AA is a trader of refined products in West and East Africa.
“The team involved has a huge expertise in trading and bunkering and is highly confident that the new bunkering service in/offshore Nacala will provide additional satisfaction to many first-class buyers,” the company said.
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NEW COMMITMENT TO BOOST SOUTH AFRICA’S DOMESTIC SHIPPING SECTOR
Efforts by the South African government to hasten the pace of developing the country’s ocean transport sector and precisely through rapid growth in registration of more cargo carrying vessels under the country’s flag, took another positive step forward last week.
This followed an historic agreement between shipping owners, the South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA) and the Mineral Resources Council of South Africa to enter formal discussions.
The development came about during the first…[restrict] formal South Africa Shipping Industry Workshop organised by SAMSA and held in Pretoria last week.
Participants included representatives of various Government institutions and departments inclusive of transport (DoT), mineral resources (DMR), Trade and Industry (DTI) Treasury, Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) as well as private sector ship owners and the minerals industry representatives under the Mineral Resources Council of South Africa (MRCSA).
It was the first of a series of workshops planned by SAMSA for the country’s shipping subsector.
According to SAMSA, the issue focused consultations with directly affected and or interested role players in South Africa’s shipping transport subsector both in the private and public sphere, along with important current and potential contributors in the value chain.
These are an effort to hasten the pace of development of shipping ownership in South Africa to address a range of socio-economic development matters.
These include transformation in the sector through actual increased ownership of shipping vessels under the South African flag by a diverse group of people, increasing the share of rendered services in the subsector, as well as enhance opportunities for maritime skills development.
Of the country’s minerals mining sector in particular, according to Mr Sobantu Tilayi, Chief Operations Officer of SAMSA, the drive to draw the sector into the fray comes against the backdrop that much of South Africa cargo for trade export – estimated at 300-millions tons per annum valued at about R110-billion – comes from the sector.
This, he says, is particularly true of manganese and iron ore as well as coal.
Yet, of about 13,000 [9800 – AP&S] trade cargo vessels reporting at South Africa ports to deliver imports and ship out local produce annually, only less than a handful of vessels registered under the country’s flag are participating, a clear indicator, he says, that the local economy is barely benefitting its own people through the shipping business as hugely as it could.
This he says, is inconsistent with both country’s National Development Plan (NDP) as well as other socio-economic development needs.
He said while by law, the Government could stipulate what it considers an equitable share of cargo for locally registered ship owners and has occasionally been encouraged to do so, SAMSA felt it prudent to rather first give opportunity for engagement with all stakeholders in discussions and persuasion towards a shared common goal.
Speaking of Tuesday’s first workshop in the series Tilayi said: “We thought it would be proper for us to get this small grouping of people just so that we begin find that one value proposition for South Africa Inc. We chose stakeholders within the bulk shipping industry such as the cargo owners and ship owners as well as policy makers and regulatory authorities.
“The intention was to find all the impediments in the subsector so that we can move on to find out what it is that we need to do to extract maximum value for the South African economy.
“This is the first of a series that we plan to hold with all role-players in the shipping industry, the next being that involving liquid bulk and also general cargo.
“I am pleased to say that the initiative was indeed worthwhile as we have now agreed with the Minerals Resources Council of South Africa for the first time ever to enter formal engagement with their members about this, but also Treasury committing to a process to clear out all the remaining tax issues affecting the shipping subsector,” said Mr Tilayi.
Meanwhile, in yet another positive development, Tilayi confirmed that the South African Ship Registry could see more vessels registered – with at least two more before the end of 2018. This latest edition would bring to about half-a-dozen ships in the registry, with three others likely to come onto the group early in the new year.
For more on this as well as the views of one of South Africa’s newest ship owner, Thuso Mhlambi, financial director at Linsen Nambi Bulk Services, click on the two videos below.
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EXERCISE ATLASUR XI 2018 GETS UNDERWAY AS NAVAL SHIPS ARRIVE
In case you missed this report from our weekend edition, Exercise Atlasur XI got underway on Friday with the arrival at Simon’s Town Naval Base of two South American naval ships
Pictures and story by David Erickson
Two South American naval ships arrived alongside at the SA Navy Simon’s Town Naval Harbour on Friday morning 31 August 2018.
The first to arrive was the Brazilian corvette BARROSO (V34), alongside at 10h10 after exchanging 21-gun salutes with Simon’s Town Lower North Battery.
Cv Barroso (V34) is a corvette of the Brazilian Navy, and the lead ship of its class. The fifth Brazilian warship to be named after Admiral Francisco Manoel Barroso da Silva, Barroso was ordered in 1993, launched on 20 December 2002 and commissioned on 19 August 2008.
The vessel’s displacement is 1,785 tons standard, 2,350 tons full load. Dimensions are…[restrict] Length: 103.4m (339 ft.), Beam: 11.4m (37 ft), Draught: 5.3m (17 ft). Powered by 1 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbine (27,490 shp) and 2 × MTU 1163 TB93 diesel engines driving two shafts with controllable pitch propellers in CODOG configuration, Barroso can attain 27+ knots (50+ km/h). She has a range of 4,000 nautical miles (7,000 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h), and a complement of 154 (~25 officers, 125 enlisted).
Her armament includes one 4.5 in (113mm) Vickers Mk. 8 gun, one 40mm Bofors Trinity Mk. 3 gun, Exocet missiles, and torpedoes. She also carries a Westland Super Lynx Mk.21A helicopter.
The second ship to arrive was the Uruguayan replenishment oiler GENERAL ARTIGAS (ROU 04), alongside at 11h52, also after exchanging 21-gun salutes with Simon’s Town Lower North Battery.
General Artigas is the former German Naval vessel FGS Freiburg, and was commissioned into the Escort Division on 6 April 2005. The vessel has been refitted with a helipad, and is used for helicopter patrol & transport. (Acknowledgements: Wikipedia)
Both naval ships will be participating in Exercise ATLASUR XI 2018. This exercise is a multinational biennial exercise between Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and South Africa. Argentina is not participating in this year’s exercise. The exercise runs from Friday 31 August to Friday 21 September in Simon’s Town.[/restrict]
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AFRICAN BUSINESS LEADERS URGED TO TAKE FRESH LOOK AT OPPORTUNITIES IN AFRICA
Early in July this year South Africa joined 49 of the 55 members of the African Union (AU) in signing the largest free trade agreement since the creation of the World Trade Organisation – the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). Nozipho Sithole, Transnet Port Terminal’s Chief Executive believes that African business leaders should be making more use of home ground advantage through this single continental market for goods and services.
The signing of the AfCFTA agreement has been a long time coming. And when it happened, its significance seems to have been largely underestimated. While there are already African companies operating in Africa, there is certainly some way to go before it starts becoming significantly easier for more companies to do business in the continent. However, the risk for shareholders and business owners is that they could lose out on a growing and increasingly affluent market if they allow the status quo to cloud their judgement. As can be seen by the looming international trade wars sparked by United States President Donald Trump and the Brexit negotiations, no market…[restrict] is totally secure. It therefore makes good business sense to diversify and spread risks.
The business and political case for a united Africa was first recognised by nationalists Kwame Nkrumah and Julius Nyerere who led their countries Ghana and Tanzania to independence in 1957 and 1961 respectively. Both were famous for cautioning that without unity, there was no future for Africa and that in Africa, we have looked outward too long for the development of our economy and transportation.
The signing of the AfCFTA agreement brings us much closer to the vision of an economic union of African states. It opens up opportunities for both small and big business. Writing for the Atlantic Council think tank based in Washington, Abdoul Salam Bello and Jonathan Gass say that the biggest beneficiaries could be Africa’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) which account for approximately 80 percent of the continent’s businesses.
The AfCFTA agreement will put measures in place that allow companies to tap into regional markets that they might not otherwise access through a combination of preferential trade regimes, transit and customs cooperation, and tariff reductions on intermediate and final goods. “These measures should improve the risk-return profiles of participating countries and bring new investors to the table,” they state.
Investors are drawn by an African market of around 1.3 billion people, the majority of whom are already connected by sea, road, rail or air. According to the Trade Law Centre (TRALAC), the continent’s combined gross domestic product is over US$3.4 trillion.
At Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) we can talk first-hand about the opportunities. As the operator of many of the busiest and most modern ports on the continent, we are already active in the market. Our goal of partnering with terminal operators elsewhere in Africa is based on research and first-hand experience of working on the continent and seeing the potential.
We see partnership opportunities in countries like Senegal, Liberia, Nigeria, Ghana, Togo, Benin, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Kenya, as well as our Southern African Development Community (SADC) neighbours. Considerable investment is being made in most of the major port gateways on the continent. The next challenge is linking the ports to the hinterlands they serve, which includes what are now known as the 16 “land-linked” (previously land-locked) countries.
For now, South Africa remains one of the three major gateways to the African market – with sound infrastructure, logistics, banking, manufacturing capabilities, education and legal structures. As with all competitive advantages, this can and probably will change – which is a good thing. Stronger economies to our north will open up new two-way trade opportunities. South Africa can – and should – be helping African countries to unlock the potential of their own markets. South Africa is in a strong position to be a conduit for inward investment and the opening up of global markets for goods made in Africa.
The hosting of the BRICS summit in Johannesburg last month shows that South Africa is recognised as a facilitator of growing two-way trade between other African countries and its BRICS partners Brazil, Russia, India and China. From my meetings with a large number of South African business leaders, I know they are very willing to be part of Africa’s drive for economic renewal – and they are putting their money where their mouth is.
According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) World Investment Report 2018, South Africa was the leading African investor in the continent in 2017. Some US$7,4 billion was invested in the rest of Africa by South African companies last year.
In an article written for the 2018 World Economic Forum annual meeting Kingsley Makhubela, Chief Executive Officer of Brand South Africa points out that South Africa is in the unique position of holding membership to several multilateral fora. “As we take over the BRICS presidency for 2018 and as the only permanent African member of the G20, it is our responsibility to champion the case for Africa. Moreover, Africa’s significance to our own economic future cannot be underestimated.”
With AfCFTA gaining momentum there is certainly a case to be made for more investment.
UNCTAD estimates that the free trade area has the potential of boosting intra-Africa trade by 52 per cent. Most importantly, it will help African countries expand domestic productive capacity, climb up the value chain and diversify local production and export baskets by facilitating the transformation of commodity-dependent economies into exporters of more sophisticated, processed goods.
Opportunities are already opening up. The priority areas for free trade have been ratified in the agreement signed by President Cyril Ramaphosa and 48 other African heads of state as transport, communications, tourism, financial and business services. It is significant that three of the five are in the service industry – where the barriers to entry are lower than in manufacturing.
This month (August 2018) negotiations will start on protocols for investment, competition and intellectual property. The African Union assembly decision requires these protocols to be submitted to the January 2020 session for adoption. Schedules of tariff concessions and of specific commitments on trade in services are due to be submitted in January 2019.
According to TRALAC, the goal is for 90% of tariff lines to have a zero duty within five years (or 10 years for least developed countries). That is well within the planning horizon of most companies.
In short, the time for African business leaders to get serious about intra-African trade is right now – before multinationals recolonise the continent. It should not take another 55 years for Africa to win economic freedom.[/restrict]
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TANZANIA AND UGANDA SIGN AGREEMENT FOR GAS PIPELINE
For the second time Tanzania and Uganda have put signatures to a contract for a pipeline linking the two countries.
In the latest instance it involves construction of a natural gas pipeline and unlike the oil pipeline already agreed 15 months ago, in which crude oil will flow from Hoima in Uganda to the…[restrict] coast at Chongoleani, Tanga in Tanzania, the gas pipeline will carry natural gas from the Songo Songo Island in Tanzania inland to Uganda.
This will be the first trans-border gas pipeline in East Africa since the extraction of natural gas in 2004at the Songo Songo Island in Tanzania.
It is the culmination of work that began during the first Tanzania-Uganda meeting held in April 2017, in which the two agreed on a number of memoranda and cooperation frameworks.
The latest multimillion dollar agreement was signed at the end of a three-day Joint Permanent Commission Summit in Kampala, led by Tanzania’s Foreign Minister Augustine Mahiga and Uganda’s Minister for Energy Irene Muloni. source: Petroleum Africa[/restrict]
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NEW TERROR ATTACK IN NORTHERN MOZAMBIQUE, VILLAGER KILLED
A fresh attack by unidentified armed men on a village in the Mocimboa da Praia district in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado has left one man dead, according to Mozambique reports.
The attack was on the village of Chitolo and occurred last Monday night 27 August 2018. Radio Mozambique reported that units of the defence and security forces responded by going to the scene to prevent…[restrict] any further attacks. The radio reports said as many as 50 houses were burned down in the attack but the district permanent secretary Rosa Pilale disputes this saying that only five houses were destroyed by the attackers.
It is believed the attackers are members of a group known locally as ‘Al-Shabaab’ although it is thought they have no connection with the Somali fundamentalist terror organisation of that name. The region has experienced a number of sudden attacks, mostly at night and several villagers have been beheaded in a manner symbolic of the ISIS terror group in Syria and northern Iraq.
The northern Mozambique region is the scene of oil and gas prospecting and the seaside town of Mocimboa da Praia and the small harbour at Palma are likely to be utilised as logistics centres as the oil and gas activities develop.
For the past two months the area has been quiet after security patrols were ramped up and hundreds of arrests made but as is common the patrols and security activity becomes less once things appear peaceful after a short period.
The Al-Shabaab group have made similar demands to other Islamist activists elsewhere – the imposition of sharia law, a ban on the sale alcohol, the removal of any sign of Christianity or other religions. The people across the region mostly follow Islam although Christian churches and symbols exist in the towns, mostly leftovers from Portuguese colonialism.
Reports say that orthodox Moslem organisations have condemned the Mocimboa da Praia raids, emphasising that they have nothing to do with violence and terrorism. However, local Islamic leaders in Mocimboa da Praia point out that they had warned the government about the fundamentalist group, but no action was taken, until the attacks against police premises on 5 October last year. sources: Radio Mozambique, AIM[/restrict]
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A ghost ship that suddenly drifted ashore in the Yangon region of Myanmar (Burma) last week was once a visitor to South African ports and was the subject of a feature in PORTS & SHIPS of 17 May 2007.
On that occasion the ship was on a routine call at Durban and her name, SAM RATULANGI PB 1600 aroused some interest. Readers were subsequently informed courtesy of one of our Singapore-based readers, Jonathan Boonzaaier, that the name Sam Ratulangi was that of an Indonesian hero, while the PB 1600 stood for ‘Palwo Buwono’, the class of ship it belonged to, while the 1600 was simply the TEU capacity of the ship.
The owner of the ship back then was Djakarta Lloyd, a state-owned Indonesian container ship company and she was being operated in a joint service by K Line, MISC and PIL between Asia and South Africa.
Fifteen years can be a long time at sea depending on whether proper maintenance is provided and now the ship is no longer in the pristine condition that she was when she was photographed that day in 2003 heading out from Durban. Perhaps her size and limited capacity has counted against her but the 177-metre long containership has fallen on hard times and now, empty and rusting and unwanted although still sea-worthy, she was being towed to a breaker’s yard in Bangladesh when the tow was apparently lost.
The tug in charge was named as the INDEPENDENCE which was crewed by 13 Indonesians. While 50 nautical miles off the Mynamar coast the tow cable snapped in bad weather, and rather than recover the two the tug crew is reported to have abandoned her.
Left to her own devises, Sam Ratulangi PB 1600 drifted quietly away until lost from sight. Eventually she approached the Myanmar coast and was washed onto a beach, where local fishermen came across her in the mist.
The discovery of the ship excited local attention and even reached the eyes and ears of the BBC which ran a feature on her discovery.
Perhaps the real mystery is how Sam Ratulangi PB 1600 ended up in such poor condition just 17 years after she was launched. Certainly when she was photographed in Durban in 2003, 15 years ago, she appeared in handsome condition.
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An example of diversity in freight
Davies Turner, the UK’s largest independent freight forwarding company, remains positive about the trading outlook for Turkey despite the country’s ongoing economic crisis and depreciating currency.
Company chairman, Philip Stephenson, says that the weakened Turkish lira and escalating tariff war between the US and Turkey might make life harder for British exporters but easier for importers. This was reported in week commencing 26 August.
A so called trade war broke out in mid-August after President Donald Trump doubled US tariffs on imports of Turkish steel and aluminium, in turn precipitating a sharp fall in the value of the lira. If sustained, this would have the effect of making imported goods more expensive for Turkish consumers, but could make the country’s exports to the UK and the rest of the world more competitive.
Stephenson added: “If it becomes more difficult for not only UK, but European exporters to sell to Turkey, it could put a strain on the rotation of trailers between Turkey and the UK. Ideally for Davies Turner, balanced traffic flows in both directions are best, supplemented by collecting extra southbound freight from our partners in countries in the near-continent.”
Davies Turner operates daily two-way overland and multimodal trailer services between the UK and Turkey with Turkish partner EKOL. Stephenson said so far this year it had been business as usual and the company was sheltered from fluctuations of the Turkish lira because most of its large international Turkish-related freight and logistics contracts were in Euros or Sterling.
Stephenson concluded by saying: “We have some longer term concerns if the ongoing financial situation has a significant impact on future foreign investment within Turkey, but we still believe the country’s strong export growth will continue despite the country’s current economic difficulties.”
Davies Turner meanwhile is in a strong position to offer its customers some of the best freight forwarding services to or from Turkey.
Its partner, EKOL, one of Turkey’s largest freight and warehousing operators, recently became one of the few operators authorised to carry out export customs clearance at its own terminal, thanks also to its Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) status. This can avoid delays to Europe-bound cargo, as it removes the need to send trucks for export clearance to the main customs office where there can often be lengthy queues at busy times.
EKOL is also an important transport operator in its own right, with an extensive network of ro-ro services maintained by its own vessels on routes to and from Turkey, with connecting chartered block train services within Europe.
Earlier this year it increased its ro-ro sailings between Izmir in Turkey and Sete in southern France to two per week, while at the same time adding a new rail service from Sete to Zeebrugge, offering onward connections to the UK and Sweden.
EKOL also operates ro-ro between Istanbul and Trieste, with connecting trains from there to Cologne and Zeebrugge, as well as train services from Sete to Paris and Bettembourg (Luxembourg).
As well as offering lower carbon emissions than road, the intermodal sea/rail services can be time-competitive with consistent transits of around seven to ten days. Road can better this under favourable circumstances, but truck journey times depend on the length of queues at Turkey’s borders with the EU.
Between them, EKOL and Davies Turner move around 70-110 trailers a week between the UK and Turkey, mainly groupage, along with sea freight containers.
Value-added services include offshore end-to-end logistics operations, accepted quality level (AQL) and quality check (QC), as well as pick and pack operations, on location in Turkey all managed by Davies Turner in Istanbul.
The main commodities moved from Turkey to the UK are clothing and textiles, car parts and raw materials. Southbound from the UK to Turkey, goods moved include fabrics, chemicals and machinery, with volumes out of the UK topped up in mainland Europe if necessary.
Edited by Paul Ridgway
London
Illustrations reproduced by kind courtesy of EKOL ©
GRINDROD RELEASES INTERIM RESULTS – RENEWED STRATEGIC FOCUS
A renewed strategic focus on Grindrod Freight Services and Financial Services
Grindrod on Friday (31 August 2018) released its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2018. With the spin-off and separate listing of its Shipping division on the NASDAQ with a secondary inward listing on the JSE successfully executed in the first half, and the board changes announced last week, there is renewed strategic focus for the remaining divisions, Freight Services and Financial Services.
Grindrod reported earnings of R 2,387.8 million, an improvement in excess of 100% compared to the loss reported in the first half of 2017. This included the foreign currency translation gain arising from the Shipping spin-off.
Performance from continuing operations – Freight and Financial services
Headline earnings from continuing operations R284.8 million (H1 2017: R231.5 million), 23% increase on the prior year underpinned by improved performance from the remaining operations.
Headline earnings per share 37.8 cents (H1 2017: 30.8 cents)
Earnings per share 46.7 cents (H1 2017: 45.6 cents)
The interim results have highlighted good terminal utilisation and improved port volumes due to the completion of the channel dredging in Maputo and buoyant chrome and ferrochrome markets and improved results on the north/south rail corridor.
Results benefitted from the extension of landside storage and handling capabilities in Durban, and good profitability from the Agri businesses as they returned to levels before the 2016/2017 drought.
The cross-docking facility in Nacala is now complete, and a ramp-up in volumes for the Syrah graphite contract is expected.
The Financial Services division reported solid results with an increase in earnings over the same period in the prior year. Strong performance of the UK Property Portfolio was reported. Grindrod remains committed to providing the support required during the transition phase of the SASSA bank accounts and distribution of payments.
As per the SENS announcement dated 22 August 2018, Andrew Waller will be appointed as CEO Grindrod Limited and Xolani Mbambo will be appointed Financial Director Grindrod Limited with effect from 1 September 2018. Waller and Mbambo will also perform these respective roles for the Freight Services business, as Grindrod consolidates the structure.
“We are seeing results from our focus on developing freight solutions for our customers using our infrastructure assets along Africa’s logistics corridors,” said Mike Hankinson, Executive Chairman Grindrod. “Steady and organic growth is expected in the Financial Services Division as it continues to drive focused business growth and seek investment banking opportunities.”
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Deutsche Afrika Linien (DAL) container ship DAL KALAHARI (IMO 9526904) arriving in Durban harbour to work cargo at the container terminal. The 106,043-dwt vessel is actually a Maersk-owned and managed ship (Maersk Luz) but has been on charter to the German associated line since April this year. DAL’s history of services between Northern Europe and South Africa and the Indian Ocean go back a long way – the line was one of the early participants in the Europe South Africa Conference service. The current bearer of the name DAL Kalahari is the former MAERSK LUZ but is now on charter to the German carrier. The ship was built in 2011 at the Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Ltd, South Korea yard as hull number 4217 and has a 7,450 TEU container capacity. This picture is by Trevor Jones
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