A 31-year-old general cargo ship run by Germany’s NautiCore Shipping has been detained in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on the North African coastline over a bunker spill. Authorities will not let the Antigua & Barbuda-flagged vessel, called Tony Stark, leave until it has paid a bail of $130,000....
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Following a fire outbreak, all 19 crew members from the Britania U floating storage and offloading (FSO) vessel have been saved. The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) said that it collaborated with other agencies and first responders to ensure the safe rescue and...
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Italian offshore engineering and construction giant Saipem has been awarded a contract for supervision and subsea intervention services of the GreenStream pipeline between the Mellitah terminal in Libya and Gela in Italy. The new contract, awarded by midstream player GreenStream BV, merges the...
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Operations have begun to locate 44 containers lost at sea from CMA CGM’s boxship hit by severe weather near South Africa after the vessel continued on its way towards Europe. After losing the containers in what was described as a ‘harrowing bad weather experience on the Indian Ocean along South...
Calmer weather off South Africa has provided good conditions to expedite salvage work on the Ultrabulk-operated grounded general cargo ship Ultra Galaxy. The South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA) said that its top priority was the extraction and relocation of the vessel’s fuel and oils on...
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Mining giant Rio Tinto revealed today all conditions have now been met for the development of the world’s largest new iron ore mine, a development that promises to alter the global dry bulk trading map. Rio Tinto will now proceed with developing rail and port infrastructure for the Simandou mine...
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Landlocked Botswana, which boasts the third largest coal reserves in Africa, has a potential new export route. Botswana has signed a deal with Zimbabwe and Mozambique to develop a massive rail and port project, albeit that financing is still not in place for the planned infrastructure. The...
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By Borges Nhamire, Matthew Hill and Mbongeni Mguni Jul 13, 2024 (Bloomberg) –Three southern African nations signed a deal to proceed with a rail and port project to help land-locked Botswana…
https://gcaptain.com/botswana-eyes-new-export-route-to-exploit-huge-coal-resource/
Work has begun on salvaging contents from the Ultrabulk-managed general cargo vessel Ultra Galaxy grounded in a remote coastal area northwest of Cape Town, South Africa. The vessel is almost fully beached on its side in a remote coastal area known as Duiwegat, dominated by a patchy, rocky landscape...
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French liner CMA CGM has stated that one of its containerships lost 44 containers at sea due to adverse weather conditions off the coast of South Africa. The 2005-built, 17,859 teu CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin faced severe weather on Tuesday, July 9, during a westbound voyage from Asia to Europe and...
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