For a Rate Card please contact us at terry africaports. Click on headline to go direct to story: use the BACK key to return. Fridtjof Nansen IMO , the third research vessel to carry this name, which arrived unexpectedly in Durban last week for a short replenishment visit. No stranger to these waters of the Southern African east coast, the modern ship undertakes fisheries research on an almost all-year round schedule with visits to ports such as Port Louis, Durban, Maputo, Dar es Salaam, and Cape Town and various ports on the west coast.
Two Chinese companies have won the contract to build a kilometre standard gauge railway between Tanzania and landlocked Burundi. Cyclone Vince is currently well out in mid Indian Ocean but tracking westwards at 7 knots from a current Sunday position near The port situation involving South African ports continues to improve but is not yet to the point where ships are able to clear their cargo in a matter of hours rather than days.
Both vessels have been on a two-month deployment in the Red Sea. For those who are regular users of the internet, they will have noticed that access, bandwidth, and speed to the worldwide web has got better over the past few years. Fans who keep up with the modern developments of international communications will be very much aware that this is solely due to the fact that South Africa has had an increase in the number ofβ¦. After a year of hard work and numerous developments in trade, transport, and logistics, we arrive at a crucial junctionβan opportunity to evaluate the progress made in the last 12 months and chart the course forward.
This milestone was achieved along with other key outcomes at the 12th session of theβ¦. MSC has unveiled a cutting-edge container monitoring system, iReefer, designed to offer real-time tracking for temperature-sensitive shipments. Read moreβ¦. As has been mentioned before, the oil and gas industry has not really been affected by the Houthi belligerence in the southern Red Sea, mainly due to the vast majority of oil and gas developments not requiring to transit any maritime assets through the Suez Canal, other than the rare requirement of an Eastern Mediterranean asset needing to get to the Persian Gulf, and thus an even rarer Africa circumnavigation via the Cape sea route.
These updates are intended to enhance transparency, increase equitable access, and drive economic transformation in the freight rail sector. Built in to a Norwegian design but at the Astilleros Gondan SA shipyards at Castropol in Spain, the ship is 74 metres in length and has a deadweight of 1, tons. Dr Fridtjof Nansen sailed from Durban on Sunday 9 February at and is due back in the port again on 25 February A detailed account of this vessel is available in our 24 August edition, available here.
