Features – Africa Ports

Feature: Red Sea Crisis and implications for trade facilitation in Africa

24th April 2024 Terry Hutson Features, Uncategorized

Red Sea crisis and implications for trade facilitation in Africa

The end of 2023 and the first quarter of 2024 are marked by major disruptions to global maritime trade flows as ships entering the Gulf of Aden and sailing
through the Red Sea and the Suez Canal continue to face attacks by Yemen-based Houthis.
This new wave of disruption follows the unprecedented global logistics crunch caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and its fallout in 2020-2022 and the war in Ukraine since 2022. It also compounds the challenges caused by the reduced ship transits in the Panama Canals resulting from the impact of drought on water levels.

IN CONVERSATION: a series on the world’s oceans

19th December 2020 Terry Hutson Features

IN CONVERSATION: Exploring the Indian Ocean as a rich archive of history – above and below the water line.

On many beaches around the Indian Ocean, keen observers may spot bits of broken pottery. Washed smooth by the ocean, these shards are in all likelihood hundreds of years old, from centres of ceramic production like the Middle Eastern Abbasid caliphate and the Chinese Ming dynasty.

IN CONVERSATION: a series on the world’s oceans

19th December 2020 Terry Hutson Features

IN CONVERSATION: An ocean like no other: the Southern Ocean’s ecological richness and significance for global climate

The Southern Ocean, also called the Antarctic Ocean (or even the Austral ocean), is like no other and best described in superlatives.

IN CONVERSATION: a series on the world’s oceans

18th December 2020 Terry Hutson Features

IN CONVERSATION: The Atlantic: The driving force behind ocean circulation and the taste for cod

Did the Atlantic close and then reopen?” That was the question posed in a 1966 paper by the Canadian geophysicist J. Tuzo Wilson.
The answer? Yes, over millions of years. And it was the breakup of the supercontinent Pangea, starting some 180 million years ago, that began creating the Atlantic Ocean basin as we know it today.

IN CONVERSATION: a series on the world’s oceans

18th December 2020 Terry Hutson Features

The Pacific Ocean is the deepest, largest ocean on Earth, covering about a third of the globe’s surface. An ocean that vast may seem invincible. Yet across its reach the Pacific Ocean’s delicate ecology is under threat.

IN CONVERSATION: a series on the world’s oceans

18th December 2020 Terry Hutson Features

IN CONVERSATION: Arctic Ocean: climate change is flooding the remote north with light – and new species

WMO: 2020 To be one of the warmest

6th December 2020 Terry Hutson Features

WMO: 2020 TO BE ONE OF THE WARMEST

Climate change continued its relentless march in 2020, which is on track to be one of the three warmest years on record. The years 2011-2020 will be the warmest decade on record, with the warmest six years all being since 2015, according to the World Meteorological Organization in a news item released from Geneva on 2 December.

THE SOUTH AFRICAN NAVY HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE (SANHO) 1922 to 2020

9th October 2020 Terry Hutson Features

Hydrography is the applied science which deals with the measurement and description of the features of the seas and coastal areas for the primary purpose of navigation.

TRANSNET COMPLETES R39 MILLION REFURBISHMENT PROJECT AT PORT NOLLOTH

3rd January 2019 Terry Hutson Features

TRANSNET COMPLETES R39 MILLION REFURBISHMENT PROJECT AT PORT NOLLOTH

Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has completed a rehabilitation of the infrastructure of Port Nolloth on the north-western coast of South Africa. The R39 million infrastructure upgrade was carried out over 14 months.

OPINION: WHAT IT TAKES TO BE THE GLOBAL TERMINAL OPERATOR OF CHOICE

3rd January 2019 Terry Hutson Features

WHAT IT TAKES TO BE THE GLOBAL TERMINAL OPERATOR OF CHOICE

The top terminal operators globally account for approximately 30% market share in the world. According to Port Technology (2014), the world’s top 5 terminal operators by market share percentage are PSA International (market share for its global port projects was recorded at 8.7%), Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) (7,0%), APM Terminals (5,5%), DP World (5,1%) and China Merchant Holdings International (3,6%). Transnet Port Terminals CE, Nozipho Sithole, gives her views on what factors are key to making one an international terminal operator of choice.