Africa PORTS & SHIPS maritime news 7 December 2024

Africa PORTS & SHIPS maritime news

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FIRST VIEW:   NOMASA

CFM reports sabotage on Beira-Machipanda railway
Congestion surcharges levied at the Port of Beira
First delivery of new straddles arrive for DCT2
Promoting submarine cable protection – Resilience of undersea cables
Russia and the west are entering the ‘grey zone’ of warfare – and the oceans are a key battleground
Police intercept R80 million cocaine shipment through Durban Harbour
Award for Survitec’s White Paper on shipboard fire safety risks
German Minister Robert Habeck advocates for stronger economic ties with Africa
WHARF TALK: Windfarm Installation Support Vessel – SEAWAY MOXIE
Maersk Completes Order of 20 Dual-Fuel Vessels
Maersk Names Newest Dual-Fuel Methanol Vessel ‘A.P. Møller’ in Singapore
Madagascar: Port security training
Challenge Group launches inaugural flights to Nairobi
Port Elizabeth waits for tanker berth to reopen
Hapag-Lloyd breaks ground in Uganda
Work resumes on fv Elke-M wreck removal near St Francis Bay
Mozambique unveils natural gas discovery, South Africa eyes Qatar for LNG amid looming supply crisis
Fair treatment of seafarers: ITF joins affiliate unions’ demands
WHARF TALK: expeditionary passenger ships – LE BOUGAINVILLE & LE DUMONT D’URVILLE
U-Ming Marine orders Rotor Sails for VLOC, ship will call in South Africa
China eyes alternatives as seaborne coal imports lose market share
IMO and fisheries: Key treaties under FAO, ILO and IMO support – Mombasa workshop
New Officer in Command for Naval Base Simon’s Town
Ports Regulator Record of Decision on the Tariff Application by TNPA for the Tariff Year 2025/26
WHARF TALK: offshore construction vessel  – SEVEN SISTERS
Djibouti maritime forces benefit from EU supported exercise
COP 29: A common goal – Decarbonising transport

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Africa PORTS & SHIPS maritime news 31 August 2024

Africa PORTS & SHIPS maritime news

Port News and Advisories
Here are the News Headlines:

FIRST VIEW:   TEAM BRAVO

US$115 million upgrade of Onne’s West Africa Container Terminal (WACT) is completed
Kotug to support ENI’s Congo LNG project
Grindrod’s locomotives return from West Africa
WHARF TALK: multi-purpose offshore support vessel – BOURBON TRIESTE
Red Sea attack on tanker Sounion: IMO S-G statement
Mercy Ships new hospital ship to use energy efficient compressed air system
Eni’s offshore Angoche concession to drill for oil extended by 8 years
Uganda company launches second new tanker on Lake Victoria
Port of Beira: Significant growth in throughput for July
Transnet Pipeline fuel thief gets 35 years jail time
Robust result for Sea Harvest, despite challenging environment
WHARF TALK: cable laying vessel – CS RECORDER
Port Advisories latest
Transnet falls back under Transport Ministry
PLAN hospital ship Peace Ark joins forces with SAMHS in Cape Town
Malawi’s dry port concession at Nacala to follow legal procedures
FLNG Coral Sul delivers 5 million tons of LNG from Rovuma Basin
Ultra Galaxy shipwreck – oil and fuel removal a lost cause as ship breaks apart
Automotive parts manufacturing boost at Durban’s Dube Trade Port
Port News & Advisories
Transnet welcomes lengthy jail sentences for infrastructure thieves
Grindrod reports sustained performance for 1H 2024
MOL retrofits Norsepower Rotor Sails to Capesize bulker
Feature: Development of deepwater container port at Banana, DRC
The Future is Now: AAL Limassol record-breaking maiden voyage
AAL introduces monthly express heavylift Europe-Asia liner service
Maersk opens its largest Middle East Logistics Park in Jeddah

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Africa PORTS & SHIPS maritime news 11 August 2023

Africa PORTS & SHIPS maritime news

Here are the News Headlines:

FIRST VIEW:   Maersk Danube
 
Dar es Salaam offers Uganda shippers 30 days free storage
WHARF TALK: multi-purpose, offshore towage, anchor handling, and support vessel SD GRACE
Xeneta Container Update: Spot rates rally on key Far East trade lanes after latest GRI moves
Cable ship Léon Thévenin needed in two place at once
WHARF TALK: handysize bulk carrier – CHARISMA.GR
Dual loading at PE Car Terminal increases handling rate by 14%
Fishing trawler Dijaanda shipwrecked on Mossel Bay coast – four dead, one seafarer missing
The UK’s National Risk Register 
Hapag-Lloyd and DB Schenker to decarbonise supply chains
TNPA & CSIR to collaborate over wind impact at Cape Town port
WHARF TALK: Damen new-build tug – E-EIGHT
Suez Canal Authority tug sinks after collision with tanker
Tanzanian ship to ease container logistics between Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar
TPT says Truck Booking System at Port of Richards Bay is having effect
Namibe port begins export of pig iron from Cuando Cubango
WHARF TALK: Panamax MR2 Product Tanker KARDIANI
SAECS Service advisory Update MOL Proficiency & Santa Cruz
MSC Joins SEA-LNG as Latest Coalition Member
Angola receives first tank landing craft from CMN; inaugurates refurbished Soyo naval base
Renewed interest in extending East Africa’s Standard Gauge Railway
NEW BOOK: Running the Gauntlet: Cargo Liners 1939-1945
MSC Air Cargo has delivery of 2nd of 4 new Boeing 777-200 freighters

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Africa PORTS & SHIPS maritime news 29 July 2023

Africa PORTS & SHIPS maritime news

Here are the News Headlines;

FIRST VIEW: MSC EUGENIA

WHARF TALK: The successful righting of sailing barque EUROPA
TNPA Richards Bay seeking supplier of port common-user LNG infrastructure
Angola bets ‘heavy’ on Blue Economy for socio-economic development
Angola aposta ‘pesado’ na Economia Azul para o desenvolvimento socioeconómico
Fire on Fremantle Highway still burning Thursday morning
Car Carrier Fremantle Highway on fire off Netherlands coast
The IMO World Maritime Theme 2024: Navigating the future: safety first!
WHARF TALK: Greenpeace in South Africa – regular visitors & marine demonstrations. Part 2
SAECS schedule changes because of SA port delays
In Conversation: Food crisis in Africa: the high cost of imported fertilisers is adding to the problem
Ghana receives Defender boats as part of multi-million maritime security upgrade
TNPA shortlists three groups for Boegoebaai Port & Rail development
WHARF TALK: Greenpeace in South Africa – regular visitors & marine demonstrations. Part 1
RITES the lowest bidder for supplying ten diesel locos & wagons to Mozambique
In Conversation: Kenya’s logging ban has been lifted – it’s a political decision and a likely setback for conservation
New IMO MENA Regional Presence Office Egypt
New STS cranes and RTGs set sail for Tema port
WHARF TALK: SA Navy submarine SAS MANTHATISI S101
Pacific International Lines – First into Hutchison’s Red Sea Port, Jazan
Kenya: Malaba border delays as Uganda upgrades ‘system’
UAE and DNV: Establishing a maritime decarbonisation centre
Call for Port of Cape Town private sector participation
WHARF TALK: forerunner of all things green – ENERGY OBSERVER
WTO D-G Okonjo-Iweala: African ingredients for digital success
In Conversation: Why Russia pulled out of its grain deal with Ukraine – and what that means for the global food system
Galilee: Women in port management training
Hefty jailtime for two oil pipeline thieves
Seafarer Photography Competition: Life At Sea 2023
Mozambique: Cuamba to Lichinga railway reopened

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Africa PORTS & SHIPS maritime news 28 May 2023

Africa PORTS & SHIPS maritime news

Here are the News Headlines:

FIRST VIEW:   INDLAZI and Ever Devote

IMO Women in Maritime conference: Highlighting gender equality initiatives
WHARF TALK: Supramax bulk carrier – FRATZIS STAR
Dronamics cargo drone takes first flight
Ghana considers establishing a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) at the port of Tema
French naval ship intercepts four illegal drug shipments in Indian Ocean
TNPA seeks alternative 20 MW energy capacity at Richards Bay port
WHARF TALK: small handysize tanker – MTM ROTTERDAM
What future, SA? Container Corridor disrupted by sabotage and theft
ITF News: Transport ministers kick off global summit
Privatisation of the ports debated in Tanzanian parliament
IMO: Ships’ biofouling management workshop – First Arab women’s participation
Maputo’s Agility Logistics Park chosen by distribution specialist
WHARF TALK: Offshore Patrol Vessel – ‘NRP SETÚBAL P363’
Equipment breakdowns at Durban’s DCT leads to container move count limitations by shipping lines
Three abducted crew from Grebe Bulker released after ransoming
U.A.E firms to improve, operate, and develop Tanzania’s ports
DP World to transport unaccompanied trailers between UAE and Iraq
In Conversation: Dangote launches Africa’s biggest oil refinery – 4 ways it will affect Nigeria
Seven bodies found trapped in missing capsized fishing vessel
WHARF TALK: tracking or spy vessel? – YUAN WANG 5
Challenging road ahead for retrofitting to dual-fuel engines – DNV
Fatal accident at Port of Walvis Bay
CMF creates new maritime security training force, CTF 154
Shire River accident leaves 11 Malawians missing
WHARF TALK: synchrolift topple – EUROPA
IMO: Oil spill response incident management: Support for African countries
Second drilling rig, Deepsea Mira, en route to Namibia
At IMO: Implement the MARPOL Convention – Supporting Kenya
Derailment on Northern Corridor Richards Bay line cleared
Uganda plans revival of its Standard Gauge Railway project

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Africa PORTS & SHIPS maritime news 4 December 2022

Africa PORTS & SHIPS maritime news

Here are the News Headlines:

FIRST VIEW:   BELITA

TNPA allowed a 3.32% average tariff increase for 2022/23
IN CONVERSATION: Even weak tropical cyclones have grown more intense worldwide
Call for faster African industrialisation
Inmarsat deal with Zamil Offshore
Government’s decision to ban the trade of scrap metal is welcomed
UNCTAD’s Review of Maritime Transport 2022. Part 2: Africa
Xeneta container rates alert
Equatorial Guinea & DRC to develop joint oil refinery and storage facilities
Guiné Equatorial e RDC Desenvolverão Instalações Conjuntas de Refinaria e Armazenamento de Petróleo
UNCTAD’s Review of Maritime Transport 2022
WHARF TALK: interestingly named container ship MSC ANZU
Port of Mocimboa da Praia ‘back in business’
K Line & partners obtain approval to plan a 200,000-dwt ammonia-fueled bulk carrier
Airfreight: RwandAir launches service with Boeing 737-800
Thieves disturbed while stealing thousands of litres of TFR diesel
Durban’s Bayhead Road bypass road nearing completion
TransNamib to focus of moving coal by rail to Walvis Bay
NATO meeting in QE: The RN’s new strike missiles to be procured
Kenmare’s mining operations at Moma hampered by electricity outages
Navigational buoys installed at the Ghanaian Port of Takoradi
Traxtion Sheltam conditionally awarded slots to operate trains on Cape Corridor (Kroonstad to East London)
Transnet confirms trashing of Cape St Lucia Lighthouse
Free the Nigeria 26 — seafarers who have been unfairly criminalised
Nigeria goes after Denmark’s Navy over pirate detention
Transnet freight Rail (TFR) turns up the heat on cable thieves
MSC Air Cargo to fly from early December
Uganda: Transaid‘s road safety project – Royal patron’s visit

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Africa PORTS & SHIPS maritime news 1 December 2022 #3

Africa PORTS & SHIPS maritime news

Here are the News Headlines:

FIRST VIEW:   BELITA

Government’s decision to ban the trade of scrap metal is welcomed
UNCTAD’s Review of Maritime Transport 2022. Part 2: Africa
Xeneta container rates alert
Equatorial Guinea & DRC to develop joint oil refinery and storage facilities
Guiné Equatorial e RDC Desenvolverão Instalações Conjuntas de Refinaria e Armazenamento de Petróleo
UNCTAD’s Review of Maritime Transport 2022
WHARF TALK: interestingly named container ship MSC ANZU
Port of Mocimboa da Praia ‘back in business’
K Line & partners obtain approval to plan a 200,000-dwt ammonia-fueled bulk carrier
Airfreight: RwandAir launches service with Boeing 737-800
Thieves disturbed while stealing thousands of litres of TFR diesel
Durban’s Bayhead Road bypass road nearing completion
TransNamib to focus of moving coal by rail to Walvis Bay
NATO meeting in QE: The RN’s new strike missiles to be procured
Kenmare’s mining operations at Moma hampered by electricity outages
Navigational buoys installed at the Ghanaian Port of Takoradi
Traxtion Sheltam conditionally awarded slots to operate trains on Cape Corridor (Kroonstad to East London)
Transnet confirms trashing of Cape St Lucia Lighthouse
Free the Nigeria 26 — seafarers who have been unfairly criminalised
Nigeria goes after Denmark’s Navy over pirate detention
Transnet freight Rail (TFR) turns up the heat on cable thieves
MSC Air Cargo to fly from early December
Uganda: Transaid‘s road safety project – Royal patron’s visit

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Africa PORTS & SHIPS maritime news 28-30 May 2021

Africa PORTS & SHIPS maritime news

Here are the News Headlines:

Front Page:  APL SANTIAGO

Fire aboard X-Press Pearl out of control, ship a likely write-off  UPDATE
Western Cape Govt MEC speaks out on Cape Town port inefficiencies
IN CONVERSATION: Why Kenya must take control of sand harvesting off its coast
WHARF TALK: Pacific Sarah – bringing…. ‘Petrol from Amsterdam’
Xeneta container rates alert: sky’s the limit….
TRADE NEWS: Daikin’s CA container technology ships custard apples long-range
South African citrus season off to an exciting and optimistic start
WHARF TALK: Handysize dry bulker Strategic Spirit and a cargo of soya beans
Meet Sabrina Chao, new BIMCO president
WHARF TALK: Another Spirit on our coast – NS Spirit
Transnet announces R870 million final settlement with McKinsey & Co
X-Press Pearl on fire off Colombo, continues to burn
SAECS vessel Santa Barbara skips southbound Cape Town call
IN CONVERSATION: How COVID-19 affected informal cross-border trade between Uganda and DRC
WHARF TALK: Reefer ship Cool Eagle arrives in Cape Town
CRUISING: AIDA Cruises opens its cruising season in the Eastern Mediterranean
Oxygen concentrators sent to India to save seafarers’ lives
Maritime legal courses for developing countries delivered online
IN CONVERSATION: Tanzania’s ‘forgotten’ cyclones and concerns for the future
DP World & Ethiopia enter into agreement for devloping road corridor to Berbera port
WHARF TALK: SANTA CLARA – sailing on Maersk service
Global vaccine rollout needed to stop crew crisis third wave
Unions threaten blockade on Israeli ship, Zim Shanghai
WHARF TALK: Durban Port Bulletin News
WHARF TALK: Durban Volume and Vessel Call Performance
HM The Queen visits HMS Queen Elizabeth:
  …..The UK Carrier Strike Group sails on 28-week Far East deployment
NSRI rescue returning Vasco da Gama race yachties in rough seas off Wild Coast
IMO calls for further action to address Gulf of Guinea piracy
WHARF TALK: AMDERMA – small, weather-beaten landing craft
IN CONVERSATION: Kenya launches Lamu port. But its value remains an open question
VIDEO: COOL EAGLE departing & COOL SPIRIT arriving at port of Durban

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Africa PORTS & SHIPS Maritime News

Africa PORTS & SHIPS Maritime News

Here are the day’s News Headlines:

First View : GLOVIS CORONA
PIL refutes merger rumours
Career navy man appointed Deputy Chief of the Navy
South Africa & China to participate in trade talks
CMA CGM re-introduces WAX 2 Service to West Africa
Transaid commences a major project of driver training in Uganda
Naval: USS Gerald R Ford commissioning
Expected Ship Arrivals and Ships in Port
Cruise News and Naval Activities
Pics of the Day : MSC SOFIA CELESTE

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Africa PORTS & SHIPS Maritime News

Africa PORTS & SHIPS Maritime News

Here are the day’s News Headlines:

First View : AMIS WISDOM I
Tanker Rama 2 sinks off North-East Africa
ECSA concerned about ongoing piracy in Gulf of Guinea
LNG plans for Tanzania at risk from new regulations
Uganda challenged over value of Lake Victoria
South Africa, Tanzania must even out trade imbalance
One stop border post between Kenya and Ethiopia to open shortly
PRESS RELEASES: Shipping needs to build cyber resilience, TOC Europe hears
Expected Ship Arrivals and Ships in Port
Cruise News and Naval Activities
Pics of the Day : MAERSK MARMARA

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