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SARS publishes draft amendments for comment

Public comments close 20 August 2024

Thursday, August 15, 2024 0 1786

SOUTH AFRICA: While industry stakeholders continue to bemoan the lack of movement to reinstate offshore bunkering operations, the South African Revenue Services (SARS) rather quietly released further amendments to the rules regulating the storage of imported bunker fuel in special customs and excise storage warehouses.

The functioning of a single transport regulator raises some concerns

Single Transport Economic Regulator promulgated into law

Monday, August 12, 2024 0 1777

OPINION PIECE: Andrew Pike, Senior Consultant, Bowmans South Africa discusses the implications of creating a single economic regulator for the transport sector as set out in the Economic Regulation of Transport Act of 2024 – highlighting concerns that have been raised that the consolidation of the various transport regulators would...

New West African shipping line will integrate Cape Verde

CAPE VERDE: Plans to establish a new shipping line by the end of 2026 were discussed at a meeting in Praia attended by a diverse group of maritime...

African Energy Chamber accuses banks of financial apartheid

“It is shocking that financial institutions that do business in Africa continue to practice financial apartheid by cutting off capital and...

Collaborating on common interests

SOUTH AFRICA: The Maritime Business Chamber (MBC) and EThekwini Maritime Cluster (EMC) recently signed a Memorandum of...

Responding to “insider threats”

Recognising the threat posed by maritime employees who make use of their authorised access to perpetrate a security breach within their companies,...

Funding port development to facilitate trade

COMOROS: The islands of Comoros has received a major boost to finance its maritime and port ambitions following the approval of a $135 million...

Two new launch boats for the Port of Cape Town

SOUTH AFRICA: Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) officially launched two new launch boats, built in the Sandock Austral Shipyard in Durban...

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Sold for scrap

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Seafarer abandonment spirals

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26 Jan 2026 SAMSA STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT 1/26/2026 - 2/26/2026

The South African Maritime Safety Authority has issued a Marine Notice to clarify dates for stakeholder engagements on the Draft Merchant Shipping Regulations that were published at the end of December last year