by admin | Sep 19, 2013 | Merchant Shipping
A failed attempt to blow up a container ship in the Suez Canal on August 31, allegedly by activists of the Muslim Brotherhood, has raised fears among maritime industry users of that route, and has opened the possibility that some companies will prefer to use other...
by admin | Sep 5, 2013 | Merchant Shipping, Port News
A combination of a sophisticated historical and theoretical analysis of the shipping industry Now Cape Town – A commission of inquiry began on Monday to probe the circumstances around the grounding of a cargo ship off Buffels Bay near Knysna. The 168m bulk...
by admin | Sep 4, 2013 | Merchant Shipping, Port News
Please find below an update for the latest situation in Egypt related to all SC & Egyptian ports affairs. – Nightime Curfew again shortened by two more hours => The Egyptian Government decided to decrease the curfew hours to become from 2300 hours...
by admin | Aug 22, 2013 | Merchant Shipping
THE monumental 12-day operation to salvage the cargo ship that ran aground off Buffels Bay near Knysna came to naught when the vessel began to sink about 70 nautical miles off the coast last Monday. In another marine accident, the 230m-long coal carrier, the SMART (as...
by Administrator | Jul 29, 2013 | Merchant Shipping, Outreach
According to Rev Boet v Schalkwyk, CEO of the Sailors Society of South Africa, Seafarers have to have a visa to leave ship, it does not cost anything, and provided they have been through the immigration checkpoint at the entrance of the harbour (customs house), they...
by Administrator | Jul 19, 2013 | Merchant Shipping, Sailors' Society
By Olga Alexandrovna Trollip I went to visit this captain and his wife on 14 July 2013 after the Sea Sunday service. They are Mikhail Kravtsov and his wife Valentina. He is 54 years old, captain of L Endevor, was admitted into Entabeni hospital on 14 June 2013...
