Port of Cape Town

Marco Polo Returns to South Africa

Marco Polo Cape Town 28 Jan 2020

South Africa’s cruise ports are welcoming a special visitor this week as the Marco Polo passenger liner visits our shores for the first time since the 1990s.

Originally built in 1965, the cruise liner is operated under charter by UK-based Cruise and Maritime Voyages (CMV) and flies the flag of the Bahamas. Her passengers are predominantly British retirees. The Master of the ship is Captain Sergiy Zhygalin of the Ukraine.

Her present 78-night Grand African and Indian Ocean Voyage began at the Port...

http://www.sashippingnews.com/2020/01/29/marco-polo-returns-to-south-africa/

V&A Waterfront Continues to Accommodate More and More Cruise Ships

V&A Cruise Stats

The V&A Waterfront’s R59-million redevelopment of the Cruise Terminal in 2015 has stimulated growth in this lucrative tourism industry, as ever-larger vessels and more cruise line operators opt to stop over in the Port of Cape Town.

For the upcoming cruise season beginning in October 2019 and ending in April 2020, 21 different ships from 11 cruise liner companies will dock at the Cruise Terminal’s E berth. One of the ships, the Aidamira, will return as many as 17 times, while the MSC Orchestra...

http://www.sashippingnews.com/2019/12/05/va-waterfront-continues-to-accommodate-more-and-more-cruise-ships/

MS Queen Elizabeth Sails Majestically Into the Port of Cape Town

Captain Inger Klein Thorhague

Cruise ship operator Cunard’s MS Queen Elizabeth was warmly welcomed back to the Port of Cape Town as she sailed majestically in at 06h00 on Tuesday, 19th November with Captain Inger Klein Thorhague at the helm.

Her current voyage started in Copenhagen, Denmark on 1 October. She will also sail to Port Elizabeth on Friday, 22 November.

The V&A Waterfront holds a port concession awarded by Transnet National Ports Authority in 2015 to operate the Cape Town passenger terminal. All three of Cunard’s...

http://www.sashippingnews.com/2019/11/19/ms-queen-elizabeth-sails-majestically-into-the-port-of-cape-town/

Port of Cape Town Boosts Tug Fleet With Umbilo

Umbilo

Transnet National Ports Authority has redeployed another of its powerful, new tugs to the Port of Cape Town to enhance marine efficiency and enable the port to cater for increased demand from bigger commercial vessels. Tug UMBILO went into service recently after being redeployed from the Port of Durban.

Built in 2017, UMBILO was the sixth of nine powerful new vessels to roll off the production line as part of the R1.4 billion tug construction contract being executed by Durban ship builder...

http://www.sashippingnews.com/2019/10/18/port-of-cape-town-boosts-tug-fleet-with-umbilo/

A First – Female Takes Marine Technical Officer Spot at Port of Cape Town

Jabulile Shandu

This Women’s Month, Transnet National Ports Authority is celebrating its landmark appointment of a female marine technical officer (MTO) at the Port of Cape Town, a first in the port’s history. Jabulile Shandu is not only the port’s first female MTO, she also holds the record as the longest serving female marine engineering officer and is only the second marine engineer to ever be employed by the port.

As MTO, she is responsible for providing technical advice to the marine engineering team to...

http://www.sashippingnews.com/2019/08/23/a-first-female-takes-marine-technical-officer-spot-at-port-of-cape-town/

Pipelay and Accommodation Vessel Docks in CT for Refurbs

Jascon 30

The Jascon 30, a DP3 pipelay and accommodation vessel owned by the Dubai-based Telford Offshore, recently underwent refurbishment and refabricating work at Transnet National Port Authority’s Port of Cape Town Sturrock Dry Dock. The work was carried out by repair company, Dormac Marine & Engineering.

Ship repair manager at the Port of Cape Town, Zwelisha Khuzwayo, said employees went the extra mile to dock the vessel, which is an essential asset in subsea pipe laying exercises for oil companies....

http://www.sashippingnews.com/2019/08/15/pipelay-and-accommodation-vessel-docks-in-ct-for-refurbs/

Port of Cape Town to Introduce Helicopter Marine Pilotage Service

Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has taken the decision to introduce a helicopter service at its Port of Cape Town to transfer marine pilots onto and off visiting vessels. This would make the port one of three within the South African port landlord’s complementary port system that offer the service, the others being Durban and Richards Bay.

TNPA expects to commission the helicopter in Cape Town in 2021, according to GM: Infrastructure and Port Planning, Hamilton Nxumalo.

In 2018 TNPA...

http://www.sashippingnews.com/2019/05/27/port-of-cape-town-to-introduce-helicopter-marine-pilotage-service/

First Female Open Pilot Licence Holder Thrives at Port of Cape Town

Sanette Robinson

Gender diversity and female empowerment in the workplace are cornerstones in Transnet National Port Authority’s drive to transform the previously male dominated maritime industry and, with this strategy, more women are making their mark in various operational roles. The strategy for the Port of Cape Town centres on creating customer value, shared value and employee value. As part of creating employee value and ensuring talent management as well as succession planning in the port system, the...

http://www.sashippingnews.com/2019/05/27/first-female-open-pilot-licence-holder-thrives-at-port-of-cape-town/

Cape Cruise Season Ends with Viking Sun’s Maiden Voyage to SA

Viking Sun

The cruise season has drawn to a magnificent close in both the Eastern and Western Cape with the state-of-the-art VIKING SUN calling at the Ports of East London, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town.

This was the vessel’s maiden voyage to the country and also the very first time that her Switzerland-based owner Viking Ocean Cruises has ever included South Africa on its global itinerary.

Flying the flag of Norway, VIKING SUN first arrived in Durban on Friday, 12 April. In East London on Monday, 15 April...

http://www.sashippingnews.com/2019/04/23/cape-cruise-season-ends-with-viking-suns-maiden-voyage-to-sa/

Maintenance Dredging Campaign Soon Underway at Duncan Dock in the Port of Cape Town

GHD Italeni

Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA)’s Dredging Services division will soon embark on a maintenance dredging campaign at the Port of Cape Town to restore the design depths at certain berths inside Duncan Dock.

The maintenance campaign, which is set to start in early April 2019, is scheduled for completion by the end of May 2019. The main objective of the dredging campaign is to ensure the Port of Cape Town provides safe navigational channels and berthing facilities for shipping.

TNPA said...

http://www.sashippingnews.com/2019/04/01/maintenance-dredging-campaign-soon-underway-at-duncan-dock-in-the-port-of-cape-town/

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