Tag: South Africa

According to Gard P&I Club, there has been a significant number of heavy weather-related incidents off the South African coast.

Many ships are avoiding the Red Sea by sailing around South Africa exposing them to unforgiving seas around the Cape. With several incidents of cargo stowage failure and container losses in the region recently there are fears of more to come, argue Are Solum, Team Leader, Dry Cargo Claims (Lawyer), Gard AS, and Mark Russell, Mark Russell as Managing Director of Gard's Hong Kong office.  

A total 15-member crew were successfully rescued off South Africa’s southern Cape seas on the afternoon of 12 September after their vessel, an offshore supply vessel caught on fire and had to be abandoned. 

The South Africa Incident Management Organisation (IMOrg) has launched an investigation into an oily substance spillage, believed to have originated from a vehicle transportation vessel, MSC Apollo, that was anchored in Algoa Bay. 

The search continues for cargo containers lost overboard from several vessels off South Africa's Indian Ocean corridor in the past month. 

According to the South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA), over 200 people are being mobilized to enhance the cleanup effort of oil from the stranded MV Ultra Galaxy cargo vessel. Recent wintry and stormy weather along South Africa's west coast has further shattered the wreck.

Adverse weather conditions impacting South Africa this past week have led to yet another large container vessel losing as many as 99 containers off the east coast of South Africa, according to the South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA).

The Transport Department of South Africa is seeking feedback from relevant stakeholders at it takes steps to ratify the Hong Kong Convention. 

Coastal clean-up efforts are intensifying along South Africa’s west coast following an oil spill caused by the breakup of the MV Ultra Galaxy, a Panama-registered general cargo vessel.

Salvage work on the grounded Panama-flagged general cargo vessel, MV Ultra Galaxy, beached on its side in a remote area of South Africa’s west coast since early July, has taken another turn after the vessel broke apart due to yet another spell of a stormy wintry weather at the weekend, leading to an oil spillage, SAMSA reported on Sunday.