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Posted: Sep 29, 2025

Celebrating achievements in the boatbuilding community

SABBEX’s annual awards dinner showcases greatness

SOUTH AFRICA: Friday night’s SABBEX Awards Dinner attracted a large crowd of close to 350 people who donned their finest to celebrate the accomplishments within the boatbuilding sector over the last year at Pigalle Restaurant in Cape Town.

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Posted: Sep 25, 2025

Moves towards port productivity

State of the Maritime Nation Part 2

In July the Minister of Transport committed to achieving an hourly crane efficiency of 30 moves an hour over the next four years. Given the release of the annual Container Port Performance Index this week and the continued low ranking of South Africa’s terminals, we have to ask ourselves: is this good enough?

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Posted: Sep 25, 2025

Future of green shipping calls in Tanzania

New car carrier makes maiden calls

TANZANIA: The newly commissioned car carrier, the Grande Shanghai, docked at the Port of Dar es Salaam this past week marking the launch of a new East Asia–East Africa service after departing from the port of Taicang, China.

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Posted: Sep 24, 2025

New book celebrates maritime heritage

South Africa’s supertugs memorialised

SOUTH AFRICA: It took two years to curate, but the stunning coffee table book on the country’s supertugs is a fitting testimony to South Africa’s maritime heritage, which saw the institutionalisation of the world’s most powerful tugs that became household names as they responded to incidents at sea across the globe.

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Posted: Sep 23, 2025

Calling for ocean justice

DFFE Minister at Ocean of the Future Conference

“A sustainable ocean economy cannot be achieved without justice, inclusion and resilience,” Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Dr Dion George told an international audience at the High-Level Ocean of the Future Meeting held in New York, USA.  

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Posted: Sep 23, 2025

Offshore block agreements signed as Liberia ignites O&G sector

Exploratory and production rights granted

LIBERIA: Having announced a five-year strategic plan to revitalise the country’s oil and gas sector last month, separate announcements over the last week revealed two separate deals in the offshore licence space as Liberia confirms the first upstream petroleum agreements in more than 10 years.

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Posted: Sep 19, 2025

New SBM likely for Durban as clarity provided on Island View Precinct

Minister provides certainty for Island View Precinct

SOUTH AFRICA: After the Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) appointed a transaction advisor to validate the Island View Precinct Strategy and Implementation Plan in November last year, the Minister of Transport has now instructed the authority to simply renew all existing leases and given the Central Energy Fund (CEF) permission to build and operate a new Single Buoy Mooring (SBM) in the Port of Durban.

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Posted: Sep 19, 2025

Global support tips in favour of ending subsidies

The end of fisheries subsidies

Among four countries to deposit their instruments of acceptance this week, Kenya helped tip the scale to see the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies to enter into force.

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Is there still a Master Plan for the Ocean Economy? 
As the lead department in developing the Ocean Economy Master Plan, it should be cause for alarm that the OEMP was not mentioned in the Portfolio Committee meeting in April to discuss the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment's five year plan. 
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PUBLIC COMMENTS INVITED: 

On 5 September 2025, the Minister of Transport published for comments the draft Merchant Shipping (National Small Vessel Safety) Regulations, 2025 as indicated in the Schedule. Interested persons are invited to submit written comments on this draft Merchant Shipping (National Small Vessel Safety) Regulations, 2025 within 30 days from the date of publication of this notice in the Government Gazette.

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