For a Rate Card please contact us at terry africaports. Week commencing 17 July Click on headline to go direct to story : use the BACK key to return. Pages viewed in the previous week Sunday to Saturday: 56, For a free daily newsletter via email? The N-Berth length of metres is sufficient to accommodate modern car carriers, however, the current depth of It has a gravity-quay wall that was built in the early 20th century.
In , R-berth and R-extension were refurbished, resulting in a combined berth length of m and depth of The concrete works package will address the inconsistency in berth depth and length, to ensure that the three berths along the West Quay are This will allow the Port of East London to simultaneously berth two car carriers along the West Quay. The concrete works package, which is package 1 of the project, will be executed over a period of 12 months. Shipping companies throughout the modern age have applied naming traditions to their whole fleet of vessels, or applied specific naming policies to classes within their fleet.
In the case of the former, most times, the areas from which the names have been taken are easy to work out.
In the case of the latter, it is sometimes not that easy, especially if the class names are taken from local geography, history, political or sporting heroes. A good example of the latter, which would only be known by locals are those classes of Unicorn Lines named after rivers Mkuze. Or Safmarine vessels, named after mountain ranges S. Waterberg , or Wine Producers S. Vergelegen , the last named one being completely unpronounceable for anyone not from South Africa, rather like Ngqura and Gqeberha.
Recently there was a run of arrivals of American owned vessels that seemed to be named after characters associated with the American Football Team, the New England Patriots. You would have to be a fan of either the team, or the sport itself, to have any idea of the nomenclature history of those names. This sporting link is used by other companies around the world. At 10h00 in the morning of 18th July, she entered Cape Town harbour, proceeding into the Duncan Dock, and going alongside the inner berth of the tanker basin to begin her discharge.
