Tag: South Africa

On July 9, 2024, the CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin encountered unexpectedly strong adverse weather conditions off the South African resulting in 44 containers lost at sea, and 30 containers on the vessel damaged.

The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has recently introduced a regime of strict compliance with procedures relevant to the supply of bunkers for foreign-going vessels.

A search and rescue operation for 11 crew members of a sunken fishing trawler in the Atlantic Ocean about 34 nautial miles from the nearest coastal land area has been called off, with an investigation of the incident now underway, said the South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA).

The Kingdom of Bahrain has signed the Jeddah Amendment to the Djibouti Code of Conduct (DCoC-JA), a regional initiative to combat piracy, armed robbery against ships and other illicit maritime activities in the Western Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden. 

According to International news, last week, the Dutch tall ship Europa tipped over during a relaunch following a drydocking period in Cape Town, South Africa. The vessel was damaged in the accident.

The ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB) has released the first quarterly report on piracy in 2023, which has recorded the lowest level of reported global piracy and armed robbery incidents since 1993.

Early Friday morning, a desperate rescue mission was undertaken to save 26 fishermen when their fishing vessel caught fire in the waters south of Cape Town, South Africa.

As IMO informed, proposals for low- and zero-carbon pilot projects were pitched during a stakeholder meeting of the GreenVoyage2050 Accelerator programme, in Cape Town, South Africa, on 18 January.

South Africa launched a private-sector driven Maritime Industry Development Task Force Network (MIDTFN) to drive the country’s blue economy strategy outlined through the Operation Phakisa (Oceans Economy) government programme launched all of eight years ago.

Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has called on private sector participants to submit project proposals for the introduction of a renewable energy programme at its eight commercial seaports.