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Africa PORTS & SHIPS maritime news 19 October 2024

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FIRST VIEW:  Heritage Leader   

Western Africa: IMO support for casualty investigation and reporting
Xeneta: Machine learning to predict future ocean freight rate movements in new Market Outlook
In Conversation: Somalia and Turkey are becoming firm allies – what’s behind this strategy
Saudi Arabia to launch exclusive cruise island in Red Sea
WHARF TALK: Bay Class Dock Landing Ship (LSD) – RFA LYME BAY L3007
Faced with demand, DP World acquires 47,000 TEUs to boost capacity and performance
WHARF TALK: wind turbine installation crane vessel – WIND PEAK
Fishing vessel Armana assumed to have sunk off Cape coast
In Conversation: Bottled up in the Black Sea: Russia is having a dreadful naval war, hindering its great power ambitions
Minister Creecy orders urgent safety inspections for commercial fishing vessels
WHARF TALK: Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger (TSHD) – VITUS BERING
Korean Register (KR) publishes Report on Safe Maritime Transport of Electric Vehicles on PCTCs
Global piracy at a 30 year low
IMO, Cabo Verde and maritime security
RFA dismayed at endless backwards & forwards at Durban’s Pier 2
Transnet wants DCT Pier 2 court review process concluded without delay
Briefly Speaking: News briefs locally and abroad
Houthis strike again at two ships
Case Study: Foundering of fishing vessel Argos Georgia
Court judgement a ‘serious moment to contemplate the future of South Africa’s port operations’ – SAAFF
TPT calls Durban Container Terminals truck booking system a success
Regulatory delays threaten aviation fuel shortage at major airports
Durban High Court Issues Interdict Against Transnet’s DCT2 Tender Award
WHARF TALK: multi-purpose heavy load carrier – UHL FABLE

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Africa PORTS & SHIPS maritime news 6 July 2024

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FIRST VIEW:   Durban Bay on a Saturday morning

Port of Tema: MPS installs latest simulator facility at Tema port
In Conversation: The story of how Swahili became Africa’s most spoken language
Angola’s Port of Luanda honoured by ESQR award
In Conversation: Shell didn’t consult communities properly about mining the Wild Coast – but how much legal protection do South Africans have?
Port Advisories and general shipping news
WHARF TALK: MR2 products tanker – YASA SEAGULL
SEIA reports highlight DP World’s socio-economic benefits for Nigeria and South Africa
Japanese Navy ships Cape Town visit – Public Public Visiting times
Maersk boss speaks of ‘massive impact’ of Red Sea attacks on global supply chains
WHARF TALK: MR2 products tanker – NORD VICTORIOUS
Marsa Maroc to operate Eastern Container Terminal at port of Nador West Med (NWM)
RFA concerned about ‘new brooms sweeping clean’ at cabinet level
Hapag-Lloyd terminal division rebranded as Hanseatic Global Terminals
Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force ships visiting Cape Town
WHARF TALK: MR2 products tanker – CL EMILY BRONTE
Great Fish Point Lighthouse turns 126 years today – World Marine ATON Day
ICS launches Global Health Emergency Guide, First Edition
Policy to boost African maritime security announced
Mombasa: Maritime security training on control and compliance
Comoros outlines National Action Plan to strengthen oil spill response
WHARF TALK: three-funnel passenger liner – CAP POLONIO
MOL to improve logistics presence in South-East Africa, taking stake in Alistair Group
SAS Amatola visit to Russia cancelled – defects and lack of maintenance cited
Beira port reacts, says record container volumes are being achieved this year
O porto da Beira reage e diz que volumes recordes de contentores estão a ser alcançados este ano
Port of Dar es Salaam hosts its largest containership, MSC ADU V
IMO Maritime Single Window: Port of Abidjan, Cȏte d’Ivoire
Kenmare names two new dredgers for new Moma mine site

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Africa PORTS & SHIPS maritime news 10 March 2024

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FIRST VIEW:   Hellas Margarita

Grindrod grows its headline earnings with operational resilience
Saldanha MPT having a good year, already exceeded YTD volume budget by 6.2%
World Shipping Council speaks out on attack of True Confidence
Port advisories for South African ports
In Conversation: MH370 disappearance 10 years on: can we still find it?
Is Iran planning a naval base at Port Sudan?
Breaking News: Tanker hit by missile off Aden, 2 seafarers killed
WHARF TALK: multipurpose heavylifter – BBC SCANDINAVIA
Vice Admiral Monde Lobese to address poor morale in the SA Navy
Höegh Autoliners receives funding for two ammonia-powered car carriers
Houthi attacks continue as Italian destroyer gets into the action
WHARF TALK: newly spotted box ship – ONE REASSURANCE
IMO statement on the Red Sea crisis and the Rubymar
UNCTAD port training module for Nigerian port officials
West Africa’s GTA LNG project: Arrival of FLNG vessel GIMI – Major milestone reached
Transnet unpacks plans for repositioning ports of Durban & Richards Bay
WHARF TALK: residential cruise ship – THE WORLD
Seafarer lost overboard container ship Santa Cruz near Cape Recife
Houthi’s may have scuttled abandoned British bulker Rubymar
Tunisia commercial port traffic increases 2% in 2023
Transnet given approval to finalise DCT2 contract with ICTSI
DCT Pier 2 is steadily recovering, says TPT
WHARF TALK: Large Anchor Handling Tug Supply (AHST) vessel – NORMAND SIRIUS
Transnet says it will deal ‘decisively’ concerning activities at TNPA
CMA CGM given go-ahead to acquire 
SA Navy will hit the high seas this year with ship visits to Russia and Cuba
SA Navy prepared to divorce itself from the Armscor Dockyard – Lobese
Xeneta Update: XSI® records biggest increase in 18 months
Combating harassment and bullying: ICS sets out industry principles
In Conversation: How climate change is messing up the ocean’s biological clock, with unknown long-term consequences
Transnet executive appointments – official announcement

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Africa PORTS & SHIPS maritime news 15 September 2023

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FIRST VIEW:   TORM RAGNHILD

Angola’s Sonangol takes delivery of second Suezmax oil tanker, ‘Njinga Mbande’
A Sonangol de Angola recebe o segundo petroleiro Suezmax, ‘Njinga Mbande’
WHARF TALK: Damen FCS 3307 Type – CAPE TOWN
Port of Cape Town’s Culemborg project making progress
Nigeria’s Lagos-Ibandan SGR freight trains start to roll
Nigerian minister calls for rehabilitation of Apapa and Tin Can Island ports
Taiwanese fishing vessel DER HAE No.66 reported sinking deepsea off Durban
WHARF TALK: Split Hopper Barge TRINIDAD
Saldanha port fencing project benefits local SMMEs
Dust, dust and more dust
Second Senegalese OPV 58S undergoing sea trials
Change of command at Trinity House
Dramatic rescue after fishing vessel sinks off Namibia’s Diamond Coast
WHARF TALK: Split bridge superstructure, Part 2 of MSC BIANCA expanded
US & EU provide support for extending the Lobito Corridor directly to Zambia
DP World incentivises cargo owners to use rail instead of road
TNPA acquires additional Shore Tensioner units for SA ports
WHARF TALK: semi-submersible heavyload vessel MIGHTY SERVANT 3
Russian Federation declares ITF an undesirable organisation
Mailbag: The Russian Lady R saga – government’s report proves nothing
African countries listed by NOAA for illegal fishing activities
Cameroon: Maritime security – IMO promotion
Maersk and Amazon agree on ECO delivery for 20,000 FFE containers
TNPA programme to encourage maritime interest among school learners
Xeneta update: real-time container rates update, week 36, 2023
Lest we forget: Merchant Navy Day

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Africa PORTS & SHIPS maritime news 24 February 2023

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FIRST VIEW:   ADMIRAL GORSHKOV 454

SA Government to invest large scale in ports and rail
WHARF TALK: large gearless bulk carrier – W-ACE
Putting a stop to poaching at the head of Durban Bay
SAECS Service Update: MOL Presence phased out, Santa Catarina comes in
Cyclone Freddy Update Thursday 23 February 2023
Cyclone Enala 14S to miss Mascarene Islands
Cyclone Freddy Update & local SA weather warning
WHARF TALK: MR2 products tanker PIS PRECIOUS
Tanzania approval for controversial Uganda pipeline
IN CONVERSATION: Cyclones in southern Africa: five essential reads
TechnipFMC contacted by TotalEnergies EP Angola for Girassol Life Extension project
Kumba delivers but Transnet restraints hold it back
WHARF TALK: seismic support vessel MAINPORT PINE
Cyclone Freddy Update – cyclone makes landfall in Madagascar
US Coast Guard Marine Safety Alert: Pilot access – Gateway handhold arrangements
A.P.Moller-Maersk and Mawani to develop Saudi Arabia’s largest logistics park at Jeddah Islamic Port
South African Port Statistics for the Calendar Year 2022
WHARF TALK: mystery Chinese oceanographic research ship – XIANG YANG HONG 01
Cyclone Freddy poses danger for Madagascar and Mozambique
AP Moller-Maersk to divest its St Petersburg & Novorossiysk logistics sites
From First Rating to a Chief Marine Engineer
Lady ‘R’ returns to Russia – Update 16 February 2023
TNPA Harbour Masters to attend inaugural African Harbour Masters Committee Seminar in Morocco
WHARF TALK: Russian naval auxiliary tanker – KAMA
WHARF TALK: SA Port Statistics for January 2023
Transnet Pipelines & Vopak to bid together for the Richards Bay LNG Terminal
Ocean Network Express (ONE) Unveils New Israel Shuttle Service (ILX)
Cape Town Container Terminal says it is dealing with the adverse weather
Perenco secures FID for Gabon Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) facility
Cargo ship Antoineta sinks off Gabon coast
Three navies in port & conflated exercises

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Africa PORTS & SHIPS maritime news 31 July 2022

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FIRST VIEW:  CROWN OPAL

UKHO announces intention to withdraw from paper chart production
WHARF TALK: small handy bunker tanker VEMAHARMONY
In Conversation: Searcher Geodata returns to South Africa to pursue seismic surveys off the West Coast
XENETA container alert: long-term shipping rates finally peak, but now stand 112% up year-on-year
Transnet releases unqualified Financial Statements for year ending 31 March 2022
WHARF TALK: vintage visitor to Cape Town – REEF PROTECTOR
News Brief: Bulk carrier Gladiator towed into Durban for repairs
News Brief: Algeciras replaced by Port Tangier from northbound SAECS service
News Brief: Cold ironing for Port of Las Palmas
EUNAVFOR Atalanta to the rescue of a merchant ship in distress with no power
In Conversation: Africa’s free trade area offers promise for cities – but only if there’s investment
Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) partners with Angola to drive growth
Heavy sands mining for ilmenite, zircon & rutile to commence this year in Mozambique’s Inhambane province
WHARF TALK: MR2 Panamax product tanker GRAND WINNER 5
Operation IRINI finds cargo in breach of UN arms embargo
In Conversation: At Unguja Ukuu, human activity transformed the coast of Zanzibar more than 1,000 years ago
TNPA delegation visits Ghanaian port of Tema
Europe looking to Mozambique to obtain gas supplies
WHARF TALK: CNFC Antarctic krill trawler – LONG FA
TNPA issues RFI for potential renewable energy project
In Conversation: Russia/Ukraine grain export deal promises major benefits for poor countries. If it holds
NEW BOOKS: In the Treacle Mine
AIRFREIGHT: Ethiopian signs proposal for up to 4 more Dash 8-400 Freighter Door Kits
Ukraine grain shipments to resume: The world waits in hope: Odesa bombed
IMO welcomes maritime humanitarian corridor in Black Sea
WHARF TALK: The visit of the last leader of the Nazi Regime to South Africa
IMO launches decarbonisation strategy roundtables in Kenya
Xolani Mbambo to succeed Andrew Waller as CEO of Grindrod
Malindi port expects to serve ships at international standards
Work begins on Ghana’s Inland Marine Port – part of Trans-Volta Logistics Corridor
New heavy-duty weighbridge for Durban’s TPT Multipurpose Terminal

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Africa PORTS & SHIPS maritime news 22 July 2022

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FIRST VIEW:  MedPort Tangier

Nigeria & shipping agencies aim at ending piracy in Gulf of Guinea
Mossel Bay port to host TNPA Garden Route Career Exhibition
CMA CGM’s Ceva Logistics expands in Africa
Militarisation of Red Sea – Russian seabase at Port Sudan scuttled
Oman acts against illegal fishing – strikes ISRAR fleet off register
Lobito Corridor (Benguela) railway concession awarded to consortium
WHARF TALK:  LR2 sized tanker – LEO
Former CMA CGM executive Sartini rumoured to head up Bolloré’s African logistics unit for MSC
DP World’s Imperial completes the acquisition of Mozambique’s J&J Group
IN CONVERSATION: Ice Wide Shut — Inside the complex, secretive world of the Antarctic Treaty
Impressive largest magnetite cargo handled by Richards Bay Bulk Terminal
WHARF TALK: purpose built research vessel – BAIA FARTA
IHMA announces a new President: Captain Paul O’Regan
Opinion: Oversupply of containers leading to second-hand container market
NIMASA to use Special Mission aircraft to fight oil theft
South African Summer Citrus arriving in the USA
WHARF TALK: Handysize chemical tanker – STOLT ALM
Mystery of APL Vanda solved
Swastika’s in Africa: Feedback on a Wharf Talk article
DP World rolls out e-commerce platform Dubuy.com into Ghana and Zambia
Don’t look for trouble, warns Nigeria’s new transport minister
APM Terminals MedPort Tangier invests to drive down CO2 emissions
WHARF TALK: US Task Force 88 – OPERATION SOLANT AMITY 1
Kenya ports and the concessioning debate – is Mombasa up to it?
WTO Webinar: Trade-related developments in an interdependent world
Imperial acquires controlling stake in Nigeria’s Africa FMCG Distribution Ltd
WTO LATEST: Cabo Verde Prime Minister José Ulisses Correia e Silva welcomed at WTO
TRADE NEWS: Choosing noise-free marine bearings
African countries’ export diversification: UNCTAD urges rethink
SADC extends SAMIM mandate in northern Mozambique

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Africa PORTS & SHIPS maritime news 12 June 2022

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Africa PORTS & SHIPS maritime news 6 June 2022

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FIRST VIEW:  DURBAN AT SUNRISE

WHARF TALK: HMS SEAHORSE 1774 – the second of two famous voyages and – HMS DOLPHIN 1776
Truckers ordered by Maputo court to vacate port property
Boskalis wins proceedings after suspending operation involving Russian project
Port of Ngqura refurbished with new SFT Element Fenders
WHARF TALK: sixth rate frigate with a history – HMS SEAHORSE
Grain imports & exports at Port of East London
NEW BOOKS: What Ship, Where Bound? A History of Visual Communication at Sea
Aviation: United Airlines commences 3 flights a week between Cape Town and New York
FOCUS ON NIGERIA: Nigerian ports to undergo massive infrastructure renewal
WHARF TALK: Danish-built reefer ship – SWEDISH STREAM
Cabotage: National Fleet will boost Australia’s maritime industry
CMA CGM turns to methanol powered container ships with large new order
After four years, Posidonia returns to the maritime stage
Port of East London reopens for agricultural maize exports
WHARF TALK: Antarctic Toothfish Longliner – SHINSEI MARU No.8
Dangers of cargo liquefaction
CMA CGM adds new call at Apapa for MIDAS 1 service
USS Sioux City deployed to CTF 153 in Red Sea
NEW BOOKS: British Sloops and Frigates of the Second World War
Liberia applies to rejoin International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities (IALA)
WHARF TALK: tug and tow into Cape Town – ATLANTIS & RENCRAFT
Two Beaver cutter suction dredgers commissioned for Ghana
The Platinum Jubilee: The naval and military contributions
NHC Northern Helicopter to travel with research ship Polarstern to polar regions
Maersk completes purchase of Senator International

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Africa PORTS & SHIPS maritime news 25 March 2022

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FIRST VIEW:   MAERSK CABINDA

WHARF TALK: Familiar name, newish ship – GREY FOX
Increased hopes of a 24-hour operation at the Lebombo / Ressano Garcia border crossing
Exercise Cold Response starts off on the shores of Norway
Obangame Express 2022, West Africa’s largest multinational maritime exercise, is underway
WHARF TALK: offshore construction & pipelay support vessel – SKANDI VITORIA
IN CONVERSATION: The Russian economy is headed for collapse
DNV’s INDUSTRY INSIGHTS: Alternative Marine Fuels – video
WHARF TALK:   ECO-Ship Ultramax bulker – ES WARRIOR
AVIATION: Comair Grounded – A precautionary affair, says regulator
IN CONVERSATION: Ukraine war and anti-Russia sanctions on top of COVID-19 mean even worse trouble lies ahead for global supply chains
Supply chain turmoil lies ahead after Chinese Covid lockdowns, warns Container xChange
EU NAVFOR reacts to UNSC non-extension announcement on piracy
Situation in the Black Sea and Sea of Azov: Impacts on shipping and seafarers
Another attempt of theft from Transnet’s Multi-Product pipeline is thwarted
Hapag-Lloyd to acquire DAL Line and grow its Africa service
Wharf Talk: a stream of ocean-going tugs – ALP ACE
Fruit exporters from Africa and South America turn to Turkey for entry into the Russian market
Reunion authorities take over the clean-up from wrecked Tresta Star
Support of the African Continental Free Trade Area: WTO DG Okonjo-Iweala welcomes project
Loss of Russian fertilisers a problem for SA? – Nyet
Statement by the Secretary-General of UNCTAD, Rebeca Grynspan, on the situation in Ukraine
UNCTAD’s work to ease trade: United Kingdom commits £1.8 million

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Africa PORTS & SHIPS maritime news 12 March 2022

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FIRST VIEW:   JOLLY DIAMANTE

Cyclone Gombe 19S comes ashore in Mozambique
WHARF TALK: LR1 Panamax tanker – PLOUTOS
Crews & ships trapped at Ukrainian ports: Intercargo statement
IN CONVERSATION: Ukraine war: fresh warning that Africa needs to be vigilant against Russia’s destabilising influence
Italian Navy frigate takes up patrol duties in Gulf of Guinea
Port of Maputo to be doubled in size on the landside
WHARF TALK: small landing craft – REGIS KASKAZI
SA Agulhas II & Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust success: Shackleton’s Endurance found!
Cyclone Gombe over Mozambique Channel & Comoros, Port Nacala landfall
Transnet Pipeline theft leads to massive diesel spillage into environment
South Korea’s Africa-Korea Economic Development Association talks of forming a shipyard in Angola
WHARF TALK: dry bulk carrier – SSI PRIVILEGE
Shell announces intent to withdraw from Russian oil and gas
PIL awards contracts for four 14,000-TEU dual-fuel container ships
Madagascar & Mozambique faces new Tropical Storm Gombe
DP World’s offer to acquire 100% stake in Imperial successfully concluded
Second container fire at Durban Container Terminal (DCT2) in two days
Out of sight, out of mind: Chronic sea blindness threatens nation’s maritime resilience
WHARF TALK: a bitumen tanker named – VIVEKA
Global tank container fleet reaches 736,935 units
IFSMA Statement on the crisis in Ukraine – 7 March 2022
NS QINGDAO UPDATE: Bulker remains at Saldanha Bay – slow discharge of toxic cargo
WHARF TALK: heavylift vessel named – DONALD
New man in charge at Maersk South Africa as Jonathan Horn prepares to retire
Container fire at Durban Container Terminal Pier 2
Navigational safety: Ukrainian and Russian waters in the Black Sea and Sea of Azov
CRUISE NEWS: Despite pandemic, new cruise ships keep appearing
Estonian-owned ship sunk off in Black Sea off Odessa
NATO Black Sea navigation warnings
US congressional oversight committees probe 2021 shipping rates
NATO completes Naval Exercise Dynamic Guard
Port omissions and rotation changes for SAECS

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