South Africa
- Dry Cargo
Grindrod adds five Japanese ultramaxes
South African shipping company Grindrod has revealed it is in the process of adding five more bulkers to its fleet.…
Read More » - Americas
Grindrod Shipping makes Nasdaq debut
Grindrod Shipping Holdings, the shipping business spun out of South Africa’s Grindrod, began trading on the Nasdaq on Monday. Listed…
Read More » - Bunkering
Grindrod completes historic sale of its bunker division
South African transport giant Grindrod has sold its bunker subsidiary, Unicorn Bunker Services, for an undisclosed amount to a joint…
Read More » - Dry Cargo
Grindrod plans shipping spin-off
Grindrod has announced plans to spin off its shipping division on the Nasdaq among a host of other changes on…
Read More » - Dry Cargo
Deputy sheriff dies after bulker fall
A deputy sheriff in South Africa died after he fell off supramax bulk carrier on Saturday. According to local reports,…
Read More » - Ports and Logistics
Corruption scandal clatters Transnet’s attempted tariff hike
Shippers have hit out at attempts by Transnet to try and raise tariffs at a time when the full details…
Read More » - Dry Cargo
Grindrod to spin off shipping business
South African shipping and logistics firm Grindrod is planning to spin off and list its shipping business. Grindrod has had…
Read More » - Gas
Bidvest to develop the largest pressurised LPG import facility in the world for Petredec
Petredec and Bidvest Tank Terminals today announced they have entered into an agreement for the development of a new facility…
Read More » - Asia
Repair work on Polaris VLOC taking longer than planned
When the Polaris Shipping-controlled broke its course and made for Cape Town seeking repairs at the start of the month…
Read More » - Maritime CEO
Port of Durban: Planned $1.1bn spend to entice more lines to call
Moshe Motlohi is confident that the hundreds of millions of dollars earmarked in infrastructure spend over the next seven years…
Read More » - Asia
K Line found guilty of car carrier rig bidding in South Africa
Japan’s Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line) has been slapped with yet another fine for rigging bids for car carrier shipments…
Read More » - Containers
APL Austria fire finally extinguished
After three full days of action, firefighters yesterday finally put out the blaze on the containership at the port of…
Read More » - Containers
South African firefighters tackle APL boxship inferno
Tugs and firefighters were deployed this morning to Algoa Bay in South Africa where a number of boxes on the…
Read More » - Europe
Boskalis completes South African subsidiary sale
Royal Boskalis Westminster has completed the sale of its stake in SMIT Amandla Marine (SAM, first mooted in March this…
Read More » - Containers
Six container shipping lines investigated for price fixing in South Africa
South Africa’s Competition Commission conducted a search and seizeure operation yesterday at the premises of six major global container shipping…
Read More » - Dry Cargo
South Africa’s ship registry receives first two vessels
South Africa’s ship registry has welcomed the first vessel to the country’s commercial fleet since 1985, with another to be…
Read More » - Operations
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics pays fine in South Africa for price fixing
Norway’s Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) has agreed to pay a R95.7m ($7.5m) fine in South Africa for contravening the republic’s…
Read More » - Operations
Ardent forms African joint venture
Durban: Ardent, the newly created salvage giant between Svitzer and Crowley, is launching a joint venture with South African diving…
Read More » - Ports and Logistics
Ships grounding at Africa’s busiest port as silting grows
Durban: There’s an urgent need to dredge the entrance to Africa’s busiest port, with the risk of groundings growing by…
Read More »