May/June Maritime Review

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IS SOUTH AFRICA READY TO COMBAT ILLEGAL FISHING? ON THE COVER

FLOATING DOCK A new multi million rand composite floating dock is destined to enhance the ship repair and maintenance facilities in the Port of Durban. Named Dormac Dock 1, the floating dock left the Pallada Shipyard in the Ukraine at the end of April under tow of the tug Fairplay 33.

HEALTH & SAFETY

Maternity leave designed for mothers Managing diabetes to stay at sea Reducing risk with proper drills Dangers of mooring ropes

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CONTENTS IN DEPTH INDEPTH 06 Is South Africa ready to combat illegal fishing along its coast. Recent incidents of a scourge of foreign vessels allegedly operating illegally in the country’s waters have highlighted that the patrol capacity may not be what it should.

COLUMNS FISHY BUSINESS 10 Shaheen Moolla wraps up the 2013 Fishing Rights Allocation Process which has taken then months to finalise after the disastrous application process that resulted in over 1,000 appeals that had to be adjudicated by the Minister of Fisheries Senzeni Zokwana and his advisory team.

THROUGH THE LENS 13 Claire Attwood takes a closer look at the give and take involved in the designation of South Africa’s marine protected areas (MPAs) following the publication for comment by the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) of 21 new MPAs along the coast.

SCIENTIFICALLY SPEAKING 16 Claire Attwood investigates the new collaboration between the South African Deep Sea Trawling Industry Association (SADSTIA) and WWF South Africa (WWF-SA) that is providing an opportunity for scientists to assess stocks of non-target species, like angelfish, panga and horse mackerel, that are caught alongside hake in trawl nets.

MARITIME MEMORIES 42 Peter Murray traces his roots to a busy railway junction town some four hundred kilometres from the sea, but his long and illustrious career at sea later inspired his eldest son to venture into the industry and follow in his footsteps.

FEATURES HEALTH, SAFETY AND SECURITY 18 • Reducing risk using frequent and proper drills, despite inherent risk • Seafarers need to manage diabetes in order to remain at sea

ON THE COVER

EDITOR: Colleen Jacka editor@maritimesa.co.za

• An over-reliance on GPS endangers ships • Shipping line gears maternity leave around mother’s needs • Ballistic patrol vessels delivered to Nigeria • Checklist app for life-saving appliances • Trained to respond to an emergency • Maritime industry must coordinate search and rescue capacity • Product news • New radar system for SA Navy’s fleet replenishment ship • Container terminal recognised for safety standards • Kitted out for first aid and medical emergencies at sea • Understanding the dangers of mooring rope failure • Maritime crime scene workshop held in Madagascar • Major acquisition likely in lifesaving sector • IMO Interacts with Africa for added security • Celebrating Global Safety Day • Long-term decline in shipping losses continues but economic pressures, cyber risk and super-storms challenge safety progress MARITIME NEWS AFRICAN NEWS 32 • Fishing vessel gets makeover after fire damage • Marine service company expands into Namibia to meet needs • Partnership brings international expertise to African market • Product news • Highlighting the benefits of tracking fishing grounds for added efficiency • Fishing company sets up high-end retail outlet • New transshipment service to Africa via Europe • Training centre receives accreditation • Massive investment for container transshipment hub • New Kenyan container terminal welcomes first vessel • Second shoalbuster launched in Cape Town • Briefs • New floating dock destined for Durban • Developing a maritime strategy for coastal district

A new multi million rand composite floating dock is destined to enhance the ship repair and maintenance facilities in the Port of Durban. Named Dormac Dock 1, the floating dock left the Pallada Shipyard in the Ukraine at the end of

April under tow of the tug Fairplay 33.

The arrival of the new investment represents the realisation of a Dormac strategy to own and operate a drydock that dates back 16 years to when Dorbyl

PEOPLE AND EVENTS NEWS 45 • Marine conservation fellowship awarded to South African • Changes at the helm of South Africa’s maritime authority • Celebrating a South African maritime icon • Dai Davies • New PE office for marine electronics company • Training opportunities develop fishing skills • More bursaries for maritime learners • Appointments • South Africa launches its own Propeller Club • Donation to Red Cross Hospital • First three black female masters for South Africa • Maritime Newsmaker of the Year • SAICE launches Marine Division • Recruits from South Durban Basin join TNPA Training Course • Raising awareness of Foetal Alcohol Syndrome in Saldanha Bay community

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GREEN MARINE NEWS AND UPDATES 51 • Strengthening the resilience of West Africa’s coasts • New digital platform for fish management • Whale mass-stranding training session held • Congress aims to highlight alternative green power options • GREEN WARRIOR: Mentored to make a difference • Ocean Council promotes sustainability at Summit • African journalists support sustainable fisheries • Sculpture highlights environmental damage done

by Thames rubbish • IMO environment projects win international award • IMO adopts fuel reporting rule

Marine Durban and Imac (a Southey Holdings Company) decided to merge their businesses in June 2000.

Unlike the other floating docks in operation in South Africa and neighbouring Namibia, Dormac Dock 1 will arrive as a brand new entity with the latest state-of-the-art technologies that includes two new 7.5 ton cranes.

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• Nigeria targets strategic growth in maritime industry to benefit local businesses • Training Academy expands its profile through acquisition • Two more tugs completed • South African shipping brand returns to its roots

EXPRESSIONS

Comments from the editor

COMMENT

Tsietsi Mokhele participating in a Russian ceremony held with the crew of a Russian Tallship during the 2013 BRICS Summit held in Durban. As the CEO of the South African Maritime Safety Authority, Mokhele, was known for his fanciful ambitions for the maritime industry. He resigned suddenly in May.

It is possible that you could have heard a pin drop in the maritime industry on 24 May when news got out that Tsietsi Mokhele had resigned from the South African Maritime Safety Authority with immediate effect. The silence, of course, did not last long as speculation about the circumstances surrounding his resignation started doing the rounds.

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he word from the Commander, however, is that he aims to pursue opportunities in the private sector where he foresees he will better be able to drive the objectives of Operation Phakisa.

It’s a story line that will be interesting to follow. Tsietsi has become synonymous with the maritime industry over the last five years in particular while Operation Phakisa has become the industry’s buzzword over the last two years.

But, South Africa’s maritime authority is not the only African authority seeing a shake-up at the moment. With a new Director General in place, the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), has been se ng a new course to target strategic growth.

Dr Dakuku Peterside, who has emphasised his lack of tolerance for corruption, is focusing on building human capacity and promoting the Nigerian maritime sector as one for potential foreign investment.

It seems that both of Africa’s key economies are pursuing the maritime agenda with vigour.

We’ve taken a stance on South Africa’s strategy for the growth of the ocean economy, Operation Phakisa, that will see us really trying to unpack the quickfast ethos that it is said to embody in our July/August issue. It will be exactly two years since its official launch in July 2014 and a real report back that unpacks rhetoric and applauds any real gains is overdue.

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Any similar programmes on the continent to broaden and deepen Africa’s maritime industry will likely welcome recent mutterings by the African Union to push the agenda of an African passport.

Discussions at the recent World Economic Forum meetings in Kigali, Rwanda refocused attention on the idea of introducing an African passport by 2018 – a move that will surely be welcomed by proponents of the maritime industry who face delays when responding to clients’ emergency requirements in other African countries.

Leading a session, South Africa’s Minister in the Presidency: Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation and Chairperson of the National Planning Commission, Jeff Radebe, implored delegates to reflect on the continued need for visas in Africa and to meet the 2018 deadline of creating an African passport.

I discussed this in a bit more detail on our blog, Maritime Matters (www.maritimematters.net) during May where the topic seemed to resonate with many of the readers.

Another pin-drop moment occurred when Safmarine announced its intention to relocate its head office back to South Africa. The silence was broken, in this instance, by much applause from many stalwarts in the industry, but there was also a little speculation as to “why now”.

We approached the shipping line for some comment on whether the move might also see the reflagging of its

vessels onto the SA Ships’ Registry in the medium to long term, but only received a well-worded paragraph in response that basically said “no”.

But none of that should detract too much from the fact that many South Africans will see this as a welcome return of a home brand. The brand celebrated 70 years at a function in Cape Town shortly before the announcement where many of the line’s global leaders congregated to plot the course ahead.

I was privileged to attend the function even though it made me feel a little old as I realised that I have been reporting on the industry for more than two decades, having attended their 50th anniversary in 1996!

Well, here’s to another 20 years of reporting and a good many more to the Safmarine brand.

Colleen Jacka, editor

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EXPRESSIONS

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KEEL HAULED

APPLAUD

The maritime community will surely understand the concept of being keelhauled and we have reinstated the practice, which was allegedly instituted by the British Navy as a way of “severely rebuking a subordinate”. But at the same time we will also applaud those individuals and companies in recognition of significant achievements.

Applaud We applaud Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) for taking the decision to implement a voluntary use of low sulphur fuel at all ports they call at globally – regardless of whether they fall in a ECA zone. We also applaud Safmarine for taking a decision to relocate their head office back to South Africa.

Keelhauled Our safety feature highlights that the maritime incidents continue to occur as a result of lack of training and/or a lack of emphasis on maintaining safety procedures on board. Vessel owners and crew that do not take responsibility for their safety at sea deserve to be keelhauled.

ADVERTISERS’ INDEX African Maritime Services 11 All Survey Industrial 5,7 Barloworld IBC C-DOC 26 Dormac OFC, 39 GEA Engineering 9 Hesper 32 Marine Radio Accoustic Devices 19 Novamarine 18, 25 Oil & Gas Africa 3 P&I and Associates 28 Radio Holland 23 SA Master Distributors 27 SAMTRA 28 Scaw Metals OBC Sea Safety Training Group 29 Seascape Marine 31 Servest 15 SMD Telecommunications 33 SMIT Amandla Marine 44 TETA 45 Unicorn Training Academy 25 Viking Fishing 21

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QUAY QUOTES 14 “While many fisheries simply require good seas and weather conditions for harvesting, the large pelagic fishery is a hunt and chase for fish each and every voyage. Placing area bound limitations within grounds traversed by large pelagic species will have a far greater impact on the large pelagic sector than any other,” said Trevor Wilson, chairman of SATLA. 14 “Our expectation is that the MPA would be altered to accommodate the hake longline fishery, especially because of the minimal impact it has on the seabed,” states Clyde Bodenham, chairman of SATA and the SA Hake Longline Association, SAHLLA. 14

“We have an issue with the whole process that DEA undertook,” said Gqamlana, “we are of the view that there hasn’t been any meaningful consultation with affected communities,” says Mandla Gqamlana, programme manager of Masifundise Coastal Links.

16 “With DAFF’s limited resources, it’s no wonder that, until now, there has been limited scope to pay attention to the other fishes that are landed by the deep-sea trawl fishery,” writes Claire Attwood.

18 “Crews are almost never confident, seldom well-practised, and, not infrequently, clueless,” writes Geoffrey Lotz. Group Manager of the Lifeboat Division of Novamarine based in Cape Town.

20 “The PEME examination is the perfect time to screen for the risk factors for diabetes as well as the presence of early signs of diabetes. This allows for early recognition of seafarers at risk, and then careful monitoring and treatment,” said Dr Marcus Brauer, a General Practitioner from one of UK P&I Club’s PEME approved clinics in South Africa.

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“This new policy supports our aim to retain the talented women working in the Group and attract even more to gain access to future and wider talent pools. The new policy aims to increase the global best practice maternity

Who is saying what in the maritime industry

retention rate to 90 percent over time,” says Fakhrie Hisham, Human Resources Business Partner at Maersk Line.

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“The UK P&I Club also reported that in 53 percent of all cases of personal injuries arising from mooring incidents, ropes have parted under load and personnel have been injured/ killed by being within ‘snap-back zones’,” writes Michael Heads, P&I Associates.

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“AGCS Africa expects an increase in losses as the industry acquires more ships in line with the African Union’s Agenda 2063, which has prioritised the marine economy as a major contributor to growth within the continent,” said Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty Africa Technical Underwriting Manager Mark Govender.

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“We are confident that the international market will take serious note of this addition to South Africa and Durban’s port facility. Several of Dormac’s large international clients have expressed resounding delight at the prospect of this stimulus,” comments Chris Sparg, managing director of Dormac.

40 “Our performance will be service based and not metric based, the focal point of which will be to create the enabling environment to gainfully engage as many stakeholders as possible with a view to creating wealth and generating employment for the overall good of the maritime industry and the national economy,” said Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Dr Dakuku Peterside.

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“In the last 16 years since acquisition, we have grown five times. In the last four years we have delivered over a billion dollars to the Maersk Group. We look back with pride on what we have achieved, but our real focus is looking at we are doing going forward,” says Safmarine CEO David Williams.

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“The biggest task of a Skipper is accepting responsibility for important decisions that need to be made on a vessel, decisions that of-

RECRUITMENT SCAM

TRIPPLING FINANCE

Fraudulent recruitment emails recently surfaced purportedly offering seafarers positions at Swire Pacific Offshore (SPO) and asking the recipient to sign a contract and wire a visa processing fee or similar to a bank account. SPO issued a warning to ignore such emails and not click on any hyperlinks in the mail.

The African Development Bank (ADB) hopes to triple its financing of projects in Mozambique over the next two years, ADB chairperson Akinwumi Adesine announced in Maputo. Currently the ADB is financing a portfolio of 19 projects, in the areas of Transport, Energy and Sanitation, totalling $585 million.

But Adesine said he wants this figure to reach $1.7 billion by 2017.

GLOBAL LOW SULPHUR POLICY Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL), the global RoRo shipping and logistics specialist launched a new company policy that prescribes all vessels must operate with fuel of <0.1 percent sulphur or equivalent at berth, in all ports across the globe whether the they are a proclaimed ECA zone or not.

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Safest year in shipping for a decade

TOTAL LOSSES of ships have declined since 2006.

75% of TOTAL LOSSES are as a result of sinking, mostly due to bad weather

Most incidents seem to occur on THURSDAYS and SATURDAYS

see full story on page 30 ten impact the entire crew. Sea Harvest has provided me with training and development opportunities that have made it possible for me to advance my career, states ivian Lackay, member of Sea Harvest’s sea-going crew.

48 Being a marine pilot is a huge responsibility. You have to study the sounding charts daily and have an accurate mental picture of the seabed. You have to know what’s underneath you including port depths, as the equipment on board the visiting ships doesn’t always work, explains Pinky Zungu, Transnet National Ports Authority’s first black female Deputy Harbour Master Nautical for the Port of Durban.

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I would say any country without properly trained artisans is lagging behind, because, in some sectors, we do not have our own artisans and these individuals are imported, says uyani Chiya from the South Durban Basin selected for Operation Phakisa.

55 We expect journalists to go back and support countries’ efforts to make the fisheries sector the cornerstone of food security, livelihoods, social safety nets, and jobs, said Magda Lovei, Practice Manager, Environment and Natural Resources Global Practice, World Bank.

HELICOPTER SUPPORT The Ocean and Coasts branch of the Department of Environmental Affairs issued a call for interested bidders to apply to provide a helicopter support service with full crew compliment for a period of four years. The tender closed at the beginning of June.

POLLUTION PREVENTION A rather poorly worded announcement of the tender for the Marine Pollution Prevention and Response vessel capability contract was included in the Government Gazette of 3 June. A compulsory meeting was scheduled for the 15 June with the tender due to close on 27 June.

IN DEPTH

Comba ng illegal fishing in SA waters

Is South Africa ready to combat illegal fishing on its coast?

Just some seven months after hosting the international Fishcrime Symposium in Cape Town, South African maritime authorities came face-to-face with illegal fishing vessels purportedly operating in the country’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).

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n a press statement following the hosting of the symposium, the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), called for the “readiness of all relevant authorities to combat the scourge of fisheries crimes and added that there was a need to mobilise and share resources and information to promote interagency cooperation nationally and globally in fighting the transnational criminal networks engaged in fisheries crime .

Reality bites In May South African citizens were reminded that perhaps the state of responsiveness to potential threats of this nature is not what it could be. It all started with some social media coverage of suspicious vessels off the coast on 12 May that seemed to highlight information that should have sounded alarms at more official levels.

African Navy was called upon to assist certainly a far cry from the call for a readiness to mobilise and promote interagency cooperation in such circumstances just seven months earlier.

At a press conference after the incident, the Minister of Fisheries, Senzeni Zokwana’s account differs slightly from the initial press statement. After highlighting the procedures involved for foreign fishing vessels to enter the EEZ, he admitted that the vessels in question had not met these requirements, but that information seemed to indicate that they were new vessels enroute to the Congo and purchased by an Angolan company.

Detailing more specifically the location and direction of the vessels’ course as well as the interception point of the Victoria Mxenge, there is slightly more validity to

for them as they identified two suspicious vessels near Port Elizabeth on 20 May with confirmed fishing gear on board and no permission to enter the EEZ. Facing rough weather conditions that made it impossible to board the vessels, the foreign vessels were instructed to head towards East London, but failed to cooperate.

This time the DAFF and SA Navy vessels managed to intercept the fishing boats before they sped off. After switching off their engines in what seems to have been interpreted as a move to cooperate with the South African authorities, the foreign vessels, however, started up again and began to speed off in the early hours of the morning.

Giving chase, the illegal vessels were once again intercepted. Improved weather conditions allowed for the vessels to be boarded by SA Navy officials and inspections revealed fish and gear without the necessary permits.

Enroute to East London the convoy spotted a third suspicious vessel that was also instructed to steam to the Eastern Cape port. All three vessels’ fish and gear were documented in the Port of East vessels London and a list of possible charges issued.

A press statement from DAFF issued on 13 May, however, deIt hardly seems surprising that the tails the mobilisation of one of took advantage of the situation and made their patrol vessels, the Victoria “The capturing of these vessels their own tactical strike by dispersing in dif- indicates our seriousness as a Mxenge, to investigate nine vessels in an area stretching from ferent directions country to protect our territoriCape Recife in the Eastern Cape al and exclusive economic zone. to Durban and Port St Johns in We are looking into the sudden KwaZulu Natal. It further highlights how the decision to escort them to Saldanha influx of these vessels in our waters, said these vessels agreed to be escorted to the Bay, but one would think that the closest Minister of Fisheries, Senzeni Zokwana.

Port of Saldanha Bay. option would have been more optimal.

“The mandate of the South African NaThat one vessel was dispatched to attend A case could be made that it was not tional Defence Force and in particular the to a threat of nine vessels over a vast ocean South Africa’s finest moment in attempting SA Navy is to ensure that we protect the area and that a subsequent decision was to thwart illegal activity on our coast. maritime routes and the resources of our made to escort the foreign vessels to the country as we protect the territorial integriTake two – a chance for Port of Saldanha Bay possibly the furthest ty of the Republic, added Siphiwe Dlamini, port from where they were said to have redemption Head of Communication at the SANDF. been fishing illegally does not make too Later in May, however, DAFF and the SA much tactical sense.

Monitoring and patrol capabilities Navy joined forces to conduct sea patrols It hardly seems surprising that the vessels along the coastline. With a fishery control South Africa’s monitoring and patrol catook advantage of the situation and made officer onboard a navy vessel, the joint oppabilities currently revolve around the their own tactical strike by dispersing in eration resulted in the capturing of three DAFF’s Fisheries Protection vessels, which different directions leaving the lone Vicforeign vessels that were escorted to the are mandated to be operational throughtoria Mxenge with a decision of which vesPort of East London. In this instance a DAFF out the country’s EEZ and the use of the sel to pursue. One vessel was subsequently vessel, the Sarah Baartman as well as a SA essel Monitoring System ( MS). It’s a big boarded and escorted to the Port of Cape Navy vessel, the SAS Drakensberg, were ask as the coastline stretches from the OrTown. involved in bringing the three vessels into ange River in the west to the Mozambique port. border in the east and patrols are underIt was only subsequent to the failed attaken in the waters to Prince Edward and By all accounts the two South African tempt to escort these vessels into a South government vessels had their work cut out Marion Islands.

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Illegal activities at sea can be reduced through a coordinated enforcement initiative that optimises existing resources from all relevant stakeholders Before

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Develop a compliance strategy that provides inputs for the development of a mechanism to be included in the compliance strategy of hake and boat based whale watching.

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IN DEPTH

Comba ng illegal fishing in SA waters

FishCRIME

More information For more information visit www.stopillegalfishing.com or to register your interest to participate please contact: fishcrime@stopillegalfishing.com

Multi-million dollar businesses are being built through the theft of fish. The crimes do not stop there; FishCRIME involves a complete disregard for laws and regulations.

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er craft operating out of Jacobsbaai, Cape Town, Hermanus, Gaansbaai, Port Elizabeth and East London.

Future patrol capacity will be strengthened when the SA Navy’s Project Biro eventually comes to fruition. Under Project Biro, South Africa’s patrol capacity will be bolstered through the delivery of three inshore patrol vessels as well as three offshore patrol vessels. Although these were initially scheduled for delivery in 201 , the time is ticking and no announcements relating to preferred bidders have been announced.

These six vessels are viewed by many as the answer to the current question that begs whether South Africa is ready to combat illegal fishing in its waters. They will provide a better presence in both the coastal waters as well as on the high seas in the southern ocean. And, unlike the DAFF vessels, they as Navy vessels carry armaments.

Operation Phakisa weighs in It could be said that, despite some success in comprehending illegal foreign fishing vessels, South Africa’s current capacity is aimed more at regulating compliance within the domestic fishing fleet and that the interagency ideal seems more a mantra than a reality.

Philippines

Tricked. Trapped. Trafficked.

Illegal fishing vessels are used as floating centres of lawlessness.

A fishing vessel provides the perfect hub for transnational organised crime. It’s mobile, it has a reason to be on the seas and most of the time it is out of sight of the authorities.

Fishing vessels are built with huge storage areas.

These are ideal for the smuggling of illicit goods, whether they be drugs, arms, blood diamonds, people or wildlife products.

Workers on fishing vessels frequently slip under the radar of the protection offered by labour and related laws. Often workers are tricked into working on fishing vessels: their wages are unpaid, they live and work in unsafe and unsanitary conditions and they are far from land for months and years at a time so there is no opportunity for escape.

FishCRIME feeds the fat underbelly of corruption. Making the rich richer and denying the rest of us access to a fair system.

At every link in the illegal fishing supply chain, the potential for corruption exists.

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Harsh and violent treatment of crew has been reported as widespread.

Exempt from IMO ship identification numbers the identity of fishing vessels is easy to change and hard to track.

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Negotiation of access agreements Licenses Flags of Convenience Mislabeling of fish Whitewashing Discards Intimidation & bribery of officials

Marine protection and governance forms one of the focus labs of Operation Phakisa and has as its objective the need to develop a coordinated approach to ocean governance and protection.

Operation Phakisa quotes the White Paper on the National Environmental Management of the Ocean: Over the next five years, South Africa will transition from the current sector-based ocean management approach to a coordinated cross-sectoral planning scheme.

We are two years into that five-year strategy and the coordination required to en-

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Tanzania Tawariq 1

Protection vessel: EPV Sarah Baartman

These are commercial businesses. They operate transnationally: beyond national boundaries and outside of national jurisdictions.

Hygiene Standards

investigations revealed the global nature of this fishing vessel: At the time of prosecution an omani company owned it. The vessel had a history of registered owners in Korea and the Philippines. It had been flagged in both Korea and Madagascar.

The Captain was chinese, the agent was Kenyan and the crew were from china, indonesia, Philippines, Kenya, Taiwan and Vietnam. The catch had been sent to singapore, Taiwan and Japan. The Tawariq 1 had transshipped with vessels registered in oman and Vietnam.

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These are not single vessels acting alone. This is not opportunistic. This is organised crime.

Service vessels are used to deliver goods to and from fishing vessels –mixing legally caught fish with illegally caught fish. Providing supplies that enable the fishing vessels to stay at sea for years at a time.

1 out of 4 fish is caught and traded illegally.

Illegal fishing undermines sustainability, damages marine ecosystems and denies some of the neediest people in the world a livelihood.

force and police the coasts and oceans still seems some way off, despite the enhanced and coordinated enforcement programme having been identified as a quick win for Phakisa with a delivery date of March 2016.

Strategic developments Possibly one of the real successes of Operation Phakisa is the development that is being pursued under the South African International Maritime Institute (SAIMI) currently hosted at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) in Port Elizabeth where maritime skills are firmly on the agenda.

“The capturing of these vessels indicates our seriousness as a country to protect our territorial and exclusive economic zone. We are looking into the sudden influx of these vessels in our waters” The introduction of the vessels planned under Project Biro may assist in interagency cooperation as DAFF and the SA Navy will necessarily have to coordinate patrol efforts to maximise the benefits of these maritime assets.

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The case of The Tawariq 1: On the 8th of March 2009, the Tawariq 1 was intercepted 180 nautical miles off the Tanzanian coast, and arrested by a South African Environmental Protection vessel. The vessel had no flag visible or hoisted, the radar was switched off, no license or permit was produced and no port of registry was provided.

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News at the beginning of June was the strategic signing of an agreement between NMMU and the Norwegian government to establish an academy aimed at creating studies and strategy development that contributes to the fight against illegal fishing in South Africa and globally.

A press statement notes that Norway will pump R50 million over five years into the new academic centre to fight against illegal

FishCRIME respects no laws.

Crime affects all areas of illegal operations whether this is flouting hygiene regulations, tax evasion or document forgery.

CONNECTED AGENCIES.

Connected agencies can crack FishCRIME. Intercepting criminal networks and prosecuting those in charge necessitates cooperation, both domestically and transnationally, between fisheries experts and the police, customs, tax, port, security and labour authorities to gather and share information and intelligence and bring the criminals to book.

New tools are called for in the fight to combat transnational fisheries crime, and organisations such as iNTerPoL and the United Nations office on Drugs and crime are taking a leading and critical role on this.

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fishing in South Africa. The agreement involves a R50-million funding over five years provided by the Norwegian government to help establish a core of graduates with knowledge and expertise in the management of illegal fishing as well as contribute to development of effective strategies.

In the interim, however, popular public opinion as expressed on the various social media platforms seems to suggest that the South African authorities should simply torpedo and sink any vessels seen to be in contravention of local and international fishing laws.

Both Argentina and Indonesia have adopted this strategy in recent months, but Mozambique is believed to be adopting a different approach. A project is apparently being developed by the Mozambicans to refurbish arrested fishing vessels train local fishermen on them and develop the local industry.

A point highlighted in last year’s FishCrime symposium is that the nature of illegal activity at sea is complex. South Africa and its neighbours and indeed the world will certainly need to act more strategically to combat it.

In the meantime, concerned citizens who are at sea with smartphones and ship tracking apps will probably continue to boost public awareness of the problem.

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FISHY BUSINESS

Shaheen Moolla discusses the fishing sector

It’s a Wrap The FRAP 2013 Appeal Process is Finally Concluded The 2013 Fishing Rights Allocation Process might have taken three months from date of submission of applications to publication of decisions, but the fact that the appeals process has taken just more than 10 months to repair the damage caused by that process caused is testament to the reality that such processes cannot be rushed and requires diligent planning.

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he Minister of Fisheries, Senzeni Zokwana, appointed the appeals advisory team on 1 July 2015. The final set of ministerial decisions on appeals filed in the line fishery was published on 10 May 2016. The publication of these decision finally closed the administrative appeals chapter on the FRAP 2013. The Minister issued his first set of decisions on appeals in the KZN Prawn Trawl fishery back in August 2015.

Resolution of the traditional line fish appeals, however, was always going to be the Minister’s greatest challenge given the significant damage caused to the fishery by the initial decisions and the ensuing public outcry and of course the Minister was facing a review application in the Western Cape High Court. In addition, there were 567 line fish appeals that required Ministerial consideration.

The review application, which was brought by the South African Commercial Linefishers Association (SACLA) on behalf of unsuccessful traditional line fishers was settled on 6 November 2015. Once the SACLA review application was settled, the appeals team was then able to proceed with designing a mechanism and process to re-

solve the 567 appeals.

What about the small-scale line fisher ?

The Minister’s published decisions explicitly addresses the recognition that smallscale traditional line fishing community co-operatives will be capable of being accommodated in the line fishery without exceeding the effort limitations determined by the department’s scientists.

In order to give effect to these socio-economic obligations, while simultaneously strictly adhering to the scientific advice, the Minister has adopted three mutually inclusive strategies for implementation.

Firstly, it is recognised that the community-based fishers will not expend the same levels of effort as their counterparts in the commercial fishery. Community fishers are expected to utilise smaller vessels and given that they will also be fishing for other species under the species basket system, they will naturally spend less time at sea targeting line fishes. In addition, the species targeted along the west coast in particular, are predominantly snoek, hottentot and yellow tail, which are not under any

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FISHY BUSINESS

Shaheen Moolla discusses the fishing sector

particular biological threat of being overfished.

Secondly, the Minister has instructed that non-performing right holders (ie those who failed to nominated vessels in 2013 and those who subsequently failed to activate their fishing rights in 201 and 2015) should be removed from the fishery in terms of section 2 of the Marine Living Resources Act. It is envisaged that this pro-

Over the 10-month appeals evaluation process, the Minister considered and decided a total of 1038 appeals. Of these, 333 appellants (or 32 percent) were successful. The average black economic empowerment ro le of the eight sheries post the appeals stands at 66.57 percent. cess of removing latent effort from the fishery will allow for the accommodation of a number of small-scale fishing communities.

Thirdly, the Minister has noted that there is a significant and sizeable subsistence linefish exemption fishery comprising no less than 1, 00 fishers along the Eastern Cape and KZN coasts who presently fish outside of the current TAE determinations.

The boat-based effort component of this subsistence fishery should be incorporated into the current effort determinations for the line fishery given the recent amendments to the Marine Living Resources Act, which no longer recognises subsistence fishing.

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Over the 10-month appeals evaluation process, the Minister considered and decided a total of 103 appeals. Of these, 333 appellants (or 32 percent) were successful.

The average black economic empowerment profile of the eight fisheries post the appeals stands at 66.57 percent.

The wheel on the previous page is a summary of the number of appeals considered by sector, the number of successful appellants and the BEE profile of the successful appellants.

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he process was lengthy and comprised the following key mechanisms and processes.

advisory team, the Minister instructed that the MDS scoring and weighting criterion required a complete review.

Compilation of the complete list of a ellants an sortin a eals into ne entrant an ri ht hol er cate ories

The appeals advisory team designed an alternative set of rules to evaluate each right holder appellantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance.

The revised set of rules was premised on the requirement that each right holderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fishing performance had to be considered and compared based on the fishing zone in which he participated. The revised MDS criterion ensured greater fairness and a rational basis to compare and score right holders.

A significant initial difficulty faced by the appeals team was determining the exact number of appellants and then sorting each appellant into right holder and new entrant categories and further into their respective fishing zones.

A couple of errors in the categorisation process were inevitable, but these were resolved during the subsequent provisional list and public comment period.

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The process of evaluating right holder appellants in particular could only commence once the court settlement order was concluded on 6 November 2015.

Once concluded, the terms of the order had to be implemented, which made provision for a further supplementary appeals process and for the issuing of provisional decisions prior to the publication of the final decisions.

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The Minister allowed all appellants (both right holder and new entrants) to supplement their appeals that were submitted during February 201 . These processes included allowing interested parties to attend at the departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s offices and scrutinise all applications and appeals.

Revision of the Manual Data corin riteria One of the most significant concerns raised by right holder appellants was the apparent arbitrary and unfair nature of one of the scoring criteria, which purportedly sought to evaluate fishing performance. On the advice of the appeals

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In terms of the SACLA court settlement order, the Minister had to publish a set of provisional decisions prior to taking any final decisions on the appeals. In order to facilitate the provisional list and comment process, and to also ensure that the process was credible and beyond reproach, the Minister appointed a reputable forensic audit firm. The provisional list process attracted a total of 127 comments and complaints which were each individually evaluated and considered and a number of these were further investigated by the forensic team.

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The Minister considered a total of 567 appeals in the traditional line fishery over an eight-month period. Of the 567 appeals, 177 were filed by previous right holder appellants and 3 0 by new entrant appellants.

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171 appellants in Zone A, which is

the area between Port Nolloth Cape Infanta.

22 appellants in Zone B, which is the Eastern Cape area.

17 appellants in Zone C, which is KwaZulu-Natal.

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MPA give and take It was never going to be easy. South Africa’s offshore environment is used for such a variety of purposes including oil and gas production, diamond mining, shipping and a plethora of fishing activities that it’s not surprising the pu lication y the Department of Environmental Affairs ( EA) of draft notices and regulations for the declaration of a networ of 21 new marine protected areas ( As) was met with a metaphorical sharp inta e of breath. The 90-day period in which sta eholders were asked to comment on the proposed MPAs has now passed and all the ma or fisheries associations, as well as the small-scale fisheries sector, have made submissions to the EA, as ing that their specific needs be accommodated by the proposed MPAs. CLAIRE ATTWOOD FINDS OUT MORE

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t was Operation Phakisa that gave wings to the 10-year-old idea of increasing from 0. to 5 percent the portion of South Africa’s ocean territory that enjoys some form of protection. Even though the sites for a network of offshore MPAs were largely defined by the five-year Offshore Marine Protected Area project that was driven by the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) between 2006 and 2011, it was Operation Phakisa that provided the opportunity for the DEA to move ahead with the bold scheme.

Phakisa identified the fact that the economic opportunities generated by marine industries must be balanced with environmental integrity, and so protection and governance was identified as a key focus area. Included in this focus area is the goal of improving the protection of South Africa’s critically endangered ecosystems .

The exact boundaries of the proposed MPAs were presented in the Government Gazette in early February. According to the press release issued, the MPA boundaries were selected to protect offshore ecosystems and species, including charismatic features like a fossilised yellow wood forest at a depth of 120m off Port Nolloth a 30m high cold water coral reef near Port Elizabeth and Protea Banks, a world famous diving destination where seven shark species aggregate in KwaZulu-Natal.

The MPAs also encompass seamounts, canyons, sandy plains, deep and shallow muds and diverse gravel habitats with unique fauna.

Together, they represent the full spectrum of offshore biodiversity and, says the DEA, have the potential to secure ocean benefits and provide important reference areas for understanding and managing change in South African oceans.

But what do these environments look like and why are they worthy of protection The Offshore Marine Protected Area project answers this question very capably, but there’s also a major effort underway, through the African Coelacanth Ecosystem Programme (ACEP) to provide a visual survey of the deep water habitats in five proposed MPAs, and collect information to support the implementation and management of the Amatole MPA in the Eastern

Cape, and the Protea Banks, Aliwal Shoal and uThukela Banks MPAs in KwaZulu-Natal.

In fact, when I spoke to SANBI’s Kerry Sink, she was midway through an expedition on the research vessel Angra Pequena, using a RO to film and photograph the seabed in the proposed uThukela Banks MPA. The photographs are extraordinary.

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But where does this leave the fishing industry which, although not one of Operation Phakisa’s focus areas, already generates considerable economic activity in coastal areas and employs tens of thousands of people Surely such an important contributor to the coastal economy should not be compromised in any way This point is made strongly by the South African Pelagic Fishing Industry Association (SAPFIA) which argues that the declaration of such a large number of no-take zones is in conflict with the economic development and job creation objectives of Phakisa.

SAPFIA says that the area available to small pelagic fisheries has been reduced over many years and these reductions are having a major impact on the industry’s revenue, and therefore on its ability to expand and create more jobs. The reduction includes False Bay, 16 Mile Beach and the island closures on the West Coast.

SAPFIA’s members are currently participating in an experiment that is researching the impacts of fishing on the reproductive success of penguins on the west coast islands of Dassen and Robben, and the east coast islands of St Croix and Bird.

An economic study currently underway has quantified the cost of closing fishing grounds around these islands to be as much as R22.5 million per year.

SAPFIA concludes that the permanent inclusion of Robben Island in a network of MPAs would be a further blow to the small pelagic fishery. They believe it would be premature to declare Robben Island a notake MPA before the penguin experiments are complete.

The Association also makes the rather obvious observation that if the intention of the MPAs is to protect the seabed then it is unnecessary to exclude purse seining and

ut where does this leave the shing industr whi h although not one of eration hakisa s fo us areas alread generates onsidera le e ono i a tivit in oastal areas and e lo s tens of thousands of eo le urel su h an i ortant ontri utor to the oastal e ono should not e o ro ised in an wa hakisa s s Maritime Review Africa MAY / JUNE 2016

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midwater trawling.

This point is also made by other fisheries sectors, most notably by the different fisheries targeting tuna and represented by the SA Tuna Longline Association (SATLA), SA Tuna (SATA), the Large Pelagic SMME Association and the Shark Longline Association (SLA).

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In their joint submission to the DEA, the tuna fishing associations point out that the large pelagic fisheries have no impact on cold water coral reefs or the known breeding grounds of various species because all fishing operations are conducted within the upper layers of the ocean. However, an added conundrum for the large pelagic fisheries is that they target a migrating species: The migratory nature of the species makes for a very volatile, high-risk fishery which is more of a hunt than a harvest.

While many fisheries simply require good seas and weather conditions for harvesting, the large pelagic fishery is a hunt and chase for fish each and every voyage. Placing area bound limitations within grounds traversed by large pelagic species will have a far greater impact on the large pelagic sector than any other.

Of the 21 proposed MPAs, there are seven that pose particular problems for the large pelagic fisheries. The geographic spread of these MPAs points to the fact that these fishers are, indeed, chasing a migratory species: fishers will be impacted by MPAs in the northwest, close to the border with Namibia in the south, along the Agulhas shelf edge and in the east, in the Durban Richards Bay area.

Our biggest concern is that these MPAs will close down opportunities, said Trevor Wilson, chairman of SATLA. The large pelagic fishing industry associations have discussed their concerns with SANBI on two occasions and submitted a comprehensive report to DEA that documents the scope of the problems the MPAs pose for the fisheries. SANBI’s responsiveness and willingness to find a solution to their particular difficulties has given them confidence that the issues will be resolved, said Wilson.

This sentiment is echoed by Clyde Bodenham, chairman of SATA and the SA Hake Longline Association, SAHLLA. This is the start of a series of consultations, he said, referring to the formal comment period. DEA will use the (comments

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n so e res e ts the dee sea trawl se tor re resented the ee ea rawling ndustr sso iation is so ewhat ahead of the ga e n its su ission to notes that the ro osed network of s has een ex e ted for so e ti e and has een in dis ussions a out su h ro osals with and other stakeholders for several ears submitted) to undertake further consultations.

SAHLLA is most concerned about the proposed closure of parts of Browns Bank (MPA 10) and Child’s Bank (MPA ). It says that the Browns Bank area has increased in importance in recent years and has asked that it be allowed to compile up-to-date track data in order that it may demonstrate the effect that the closure of these two areas will have on the hake longline fishery.

Our expectation is that the MPA would be altered to accommodate the hake longline fishery, especially because of the minimal impact it has on the seabed, said Bodenham.

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The confidence in the consultation process that is expressed by the large pelagic and hake longline associations is, however, not echoed by the small-scale fisheries sector.

Mandla Gqamlana, programme manager of Masifundise Coastal Links, the NGO that lobbies for the rights of small-scale fishers, is concerned that DEA is chasing the five percent target without adequately considering the impacts that the MPAs might have on coastal people.

We have an issue with the whole process that DEA undertook, said Gqamlana, we are of the view that there hasn’t been any meaningful consultation with affected communities.

Gqamlana explains that the Government Gazette makes no reference to the smallscale fisheries sector and says that this omission highlights the disjuncture between the policies of the DEA and its counterpart in ocean management, the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF).

The DEA disregards small-scale fishers, he says, adding that they have given preference to the recreational sector, at the expense of the small-scale sector.

ettin ahea of the a e In some respects, the deep-sea trawl sector, represented by the SA Deep Sea Trawling Industry Association (SADSTIA) is ahead of the game. In its submission to DEA,

SADSTIA notes that the proposed network of MPAs has been expected for some time and SADSTIA has been in discussions with DAFF and other stakeholders for several years.

SADSTIA has been engaging in the process of development of a system of offshore MPAs since its inception, since it has always been likely that some ecologically sensitive areas would overlap with the currently designated trawl footprint, it says in its submission.

SADSTIA has raised concerns about five of the proposed MPAs, saying that some of the boundaries should be reconfigured to allow certain historical trawl grounds to be used and, in-so-doing avoid negative impacts on catches. In fact, one of SADSTIA’s concerns is around the lack of information about the impacts that the proposed MPAs might have on the ocean industries, not just the fishing industry.

It says detailed social and economic studies should be conducted to properly assess the impacts of existing and proposed MPAs. SADSTIA believes this responsibility lies with government, and not with the fishing associations.

One fishery that will be considerably impacted if the Isimangaliso and uThukela MPAs are instituted as planned, is the small but regionally important KZN crustacean trawl fishery.

A right-holder in this fishery, iking Fishing, has appealed to the DEA to find a mutually acceptable solution that will satisfy the need for protection of biodiversity and critical marine benthic habitats, while ensuring that the prawn trawl industry is not heavily impacted economically. iking director, Tim Reddell, says that negotiations are underway and it’s possible there will be some give and take.

In its submission to DEA, iking says it could agree to sacrifice the Tugela shallow water grounds and the Richards Bay Deep grounds, but taking away the right to trawl the Tugela Deep grounds would force the prawn trawling industry to its knees.

Closing the KZN crustacean fishery would result in the loss of an estimated 66 jobs.

Although it is a marginal fishery, made viable by seasonal fishing in Mozambique, the

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closure of the South African fishery would result in a loss of product on local markets and, quite apart from the losses suffered by iking Fishing, a considerable loss of revenue for the businesses that provide vessel maintenance and provisioning services.

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In some instances Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve observed that government publishes a contentious issue in the Government Gazette and asks the public comment on it. Then, government goes right ahead and does what it planned to do in the first place, with little regard for the detailed comments that might have been made.

But, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the sense I got in this case.

For one thing, a number of the fishing associations I spoke to said they had already participated in workshops with SANBI and commended Kerry Sink and her colleagues at DEA for their willingness to interrogate the design of each of the proposed MPAs and accommodate the difficulties of the impacted fishery.

I also spoke to Gcobani Popose, director of ocean conservation strategies at the DEA, who assured me that comments

would be considered for every MPA. We are busy collating the comments from interested and affected parties and they will influence the decision that the minister eventually takes, he said.

In addition, over the next six months, DEA will consult with all the government departments that have a role to play in ocean management. He estimated this process would be complete by year-end, but he said it was feasible that the establishment and definition of the borders of some MPAs would be more difficult than others.

I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see a situation where we get all

the MPAs at once, he said, suggesting that the fishing industry (and other impacted industries) can expect a gradual introduction of the 21 MPAs. Popose also provided assurance that the Department and Operation Phakisa are very aware of the fine line that that needs to be trod between protecting marine biodiversity and critical habitats and protecting and promoting the ocean industries.

We are aware that many economic activities share the same ocean space and we want to balance conservation and economic activity, he said.

SCIENTIFICALLY SPEAKING

Promoting knowledge through science

Non-target species come under the spotlight in new research project A ne colla oration e t een the o th African ee ea ra lin In str Association A IA an o th Africa A is ro i in an o ort nit for scientists to assess stoc s of non tar et s ecies li e an elfish an a an horse ac erel that are ca ht alon si e ha e in tra l nets laire Att oo A version of this article was originally published in the newsletter of the South African Network for Coastal and Oceanic Research and is available at www.sancor.nrf.ac.za

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n May, SADSTIA and WWF-SA announced that they would work together to implement the South African Offshore Trawl Bycatch Fishery Conservation Project (FCP), which will “undertake research, implement practical actions, and generally improve the environmental performance and sustainability of the fishing activity of SADSTIA’s members, with a particular focus on non-target species management”.

The non-target species are kingklip (Genypterus capensis), monk (Lophius vomerinus), angelfish (Brama brama), Cape dory (Zeus capensis), gurnard (Chelidonichthys capensis), horse mackerel (Trachurus capensis), jacopever (Helicolenus dactylopterus), octopus (Octopus vulgaris), panga (Pterogymnus laniarus), ribbonfish (Lepidopus caudatus), snoek (Thyrsites atun) and a number of skate species.

Hake from the South African trawl fishery was first certified as sustainable by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) in 2004 and since then SADSTIA members have worked steadily and systematically to improve the environmental performance of the fishery, going far beyond the conditions of certification.

Yet, in spite of the strides that SADSTIA has taken to green the trawl fishery, despite the fact that its hake was certified by the MSC for a third five-year period in 2015, the association is concerned that a number of fish caught and marketed by hake producers collectively referred to as non-target or by-catch species that are rated orange” or “red” on the SASSI list.

A traffic li ht s ste WWF-SASSI’s traffic light system classifies seafood species into colour-coded lists: green indicates that fishing for the species is sustainable orange advises a measure of caution because there may be some sustainability concerns, and red indicates there are serious concerns about the ecological sustainability associated with the fishing of a species.

Currently, 13 species that are landed by the deep-sea trawl fishery are categorised

by WWF-SASSI. Six of the 13 species are on WWF-SASSI’s green list: gurnard, snoek, monk, angelfish and the two hake species five are on the orange list (Cape John dory, panga, octopus, kingklip and horse mackerel) and two are on the red list (jacopever

and biscuit skate).

As Jessica Greenstone, marine science and policy lead at WWF-SA, explains, in some cases it is the lack of information about a species that is responsible for its orange or red listing: We are charged with giving an overall view of how much the (hake) fishery is impacting other species and the environment and we couldn’t give some of the by-catch species a positive score because we didn’t have the data. Under the SASSI methodology a species won’t score well if there’s a lack of information, she says.

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One of the reasons for the apparent neglect of by-catch species is that the Cape hakes (deep water and shallow water hake) have been, and continue to be, the firm focus of trawler operators.

Some have negotiated agreements with international customers and so the need to optimise hake catches and meet supply commitments is paramount; others try to optimise hake catches simply because there is strong demand for hake.

Another reason is that the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) and its Demersal Scientific Working Group (DSWG) are geared towards the assessment and management of the target species.

In order to retain the valuable MSC accreditation DAFF is required to tick a number of scientific and administrative boxes, among them the successful completion of stock assessment surveys and the running of a scientific observer programme.

With DAFF’s limited resources, it’s no wonder that, until now, there has been limited scope to pay attention to the other fishes that are landed by the deep-sea trawl fishery.

e lace ent iel anal ses are lanne Eight activities are planned for the FCP, which is to be rolled out over three years.

One of the most challenging activities is an initiative by the DAFF DSWG to conduct stock assessments for the top 15 non-target species in the fishery. Seven species will be prioritised.

Deon Durholtz, chair of the DSWG explains that the term “stock assessment”

The industry will play a pivotal role in the FCP and to some extent the success of the project will come down to the ability of skippers and shing rews to ada t to new on oard routines and ra ti es

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is used rather loosely in this instance.

Conventional stock assessments rely on a comparison of time series of catches and indices of abundance (typically provided by commercial catch rates or research surveys), but in the case of the non-target species, there is a dearth of this type of data available. As a result, says Durholtz, a coarser approach a replacement yield analysis is applied.

The replacement yield analysis is capable of estimating the size of the catch that will maintain a stock at its present level of abundance (called the replacement yield”), but is unable to indicate whether this abundance is above or below that which can provide the maximum sustainable yield.

Emeritus Professor Doug Butterworth, of the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town, provided a simple explanation of a replacement yield model, saying: “The way the replacement yield model approach works is to compute the trend in the abundance index over a fairly lengthy recent period, as well as to calculate the average annual catch over that period. If the trend is upwards, the replacement yield is above the annual catch, he says.

In principle, an upward trend would indicate that catches could increase, but a downward trend would raise red flags and indicate that catches should decrease.

The model computes the recommended raising or lowering of the catch by combining some external information about the likely abundance (in tons) of the stock, with what little information may be gleaned from the catch-change versus index-change comparison described above, using what is called a Bayesian method.

Because the information available is poor, the eventual result is subject to appreciable error, says Butterworth.

In spite of these shortcomings, the move by the DSWG to assess these species is a very important step, says Greenstone.

For species like ribbonfish, for example, annual catches are more than 4,000 tonnes, but there has been no assessment to determine whether that catch is sustainable or whether the species can withstand that kind of fishing pressure, she explains.

Durholtz says that collation of the necessary data for the replacement yield analyses is already underway and the DSWG is hoping to have some results available for the seven priority species by September.

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In str in ol e ent is critical The industry will play a pivotal role in the FCP and to some extent the success of the project will come down to the ability of skippers and fishing crews to adapt to new on-board routines and practices. The goal is to ensure there is better recording at drag level and that catches are sorted and accurately tallied in the fish hold.

“We are asking them to sort the fish exactly, so that we can get very accurate inFish factory workers, Dylin Cupido (left) and Mzolisi Kali prepare a formation about how much consignment of horse mackerel, one of the 12 non-target species of each species is caught, whose management will be improved by the Fishery Conservation Project that is being implemented by SADSTIA and WWF-SA. says Greenstone.

Photo courtesy of I&J. Such information will help Many of the non-target species commonly caught alongside hake, the DSWG to extract acculike these panga (Pterogymnus laniarus) are valued as a source of rate catch-per-unit effort good quality animal protein by lower income groups and as such play a role in food security, particularly in the Western Cape.

(CPUE) data for each of the top 15 non-target species.

Fisheries observers will are sustainable, but their intent is thwarted also play an important role. if there is co-mingling of sustainably harFor the past 16 years, deep-sea trawlers vested product with product that was not have carried on-board observers who take sustainably managed. That’s why the tracebasic biological samples and measureability protocol is necessary.” ments of hake.

Although observer coverage has fluctuated over the years according to the availability of funding, the observer programme is recognised as an important component of the management of the deep-sea trawl fishery and its maintenance has become a requirement of MSC certification.

One of the objectives of the FCP is to broaden the mandate of observers so that they collect information about hake, as well as the common by-catch species.

Also included on the FCP “to do” list are a stakeholder analysis, a report on the socio-economic impacts of the fishery, a guiding document that sets out the ecosystem approach to fisheries management (EAF) objectives for the fishery (similar to an EAF management plan) and the establishment of a traceability protocol.

Such a protocol will allow the industry to trace, for example, a snoek or panga sold at a spaza shop, back to the vessel that caught it. Such a protocol is already in place for hake and its extension to popular by-catch species will ultimately help consumers to make sustainable choices.

As Greenstone puts it, you want consumers to purchase products because they

o in to ar s the reen list Although the objective of the FCP is to fundamentally improve the data collection and management of non-target species in the deep-sea trawl fishery, an intended spin-off for SADSTIA is that certain species will move off the red or orange list and towards the SASSI green list.

As Tim Reddell, chairman of SADSTIA and a director of iking Fishing explains, improved SASSI ratings will substantially enhance the image of SADSTIA which has done so much to improve its environmental footprint.

“This latest partnership with WWF-SA is another important step towards improving the environmental performance of the fishery. We have to pay attention to these by-catch species and improve their management,” he says.

At the close of the three-year FCP, it is expected that at least six of the 12 non-target species will have improved their status on the SASSI list, some will move onto the green list, and the DAFF will have in place basic assessment and management procedures for 15 species.

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Reducing risk using frequent and proper drills, despite inherent risk In an emergency MOB (man over board) recovery or vessel abandonment procedure, panic and confusion among personnel are likely to be heightened. At this critical time, rescue boat or lifeboat deployment must be performed smoothly and without drama or mishap.

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n order for this to happen, it is imperative that crew are well-drilled and confident in their capabilities.

Much like in combat, in high-pressure situations lessons learned during drills take over and allow actions to be performed automatically, minimising and mitigating against the possible effects of panic and allowing bandwidth for the execution of other actions that may be required by the particular details of the situation.

One would expect lifeboat and rescue boat crew to be well-drilled and trained to a high standard of preparedness and perhaps in other parts of the world they are, but off our South African coastlines the reality is that crew are not always able to smoothly and efficiently deploy lifesaving daughter craft from their motherships.

Since the days of gigs, pinnacles and longboats deployed by tackle arrangements from sailing ships, the lowering and recovering of daughter craft has been a tricky and inherently dangerous operation.

In those days, even the simplest ship-toship and ship-to-shore communications involved lowering manned daughter craft from davits and, more than occasionally, this process ended in mishap and harm.

However, more often than not the procedure was performed smoothly and safely because it was well practised.

Modern communications have resulted in the deployment of daughter lifesaving craft occurring rarely. Although much of the inherent risk to men and equipment has been alleviated by processes such as regular mandatory inspection of equipment and mandatory retrofi ng and upgrading of components of improved design the entry into, deployment and recovery of daughter craft from ships and platforms remains a risky activity. Appendages and limbs can be pinched, seasickness will occur, boats can be damaged or even dropped. And lives could be lost.

All the more reason for regular training and drilling, one would think, but the off-

shore reality is a long way from that. It is possible that our, not unjustified, obsession with safety, LTI s, risk mitigation and alleviation have unintentionally placed us in an even more dangerous position.

An experienced, seasoned and successful OIM of a 2010-built semi-submersible platform once told me how merely the paperwork that would result from even a minor personnel injury or damage to a lifeboat made him adamant that the deployment of a lifeboat for familiarisation training and drilling of crew was not worth the possible trouble.

The fact that he was completely unfamiliar with and afraid of the lifeboats fitted to his vessel that he would not even enter them, ever, except to abandon the platform came as no surprise.

A catch-22 situation This created a Catch-22 situation. Despite regulations, crew cannot gain familiarity with equipment because of inherent risk.

This risk is never alleviated through greater familiarity and confidence in operation, thus increasing risk of possible mishap or operator error during deployment in an emergency.

Religiously we drill on Sunday evenings and muster as if to abandon, but are we truly ready and prepared to safely abandon when only the slightest smattering of those onboard are actually confident and capable of carrying out a deployment in broad daylight and in a dead calm never mind at night during foul weather from a burning ship?

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I once stood at a boat deck rail with a Class surveyor for more than 0 minutes watching and filming as a European-officered PS crew gingerly worked an unmanned FRC from the point alongside the mothership, where it entered the water aft to the rescue doors by means of lines and painters, whilst simultaneously manually unwinding the fall wire.

The rusted-shut rescue doors were then beaten with sledgehammers for too long a time to get them open before any crew were allowed to board the FRC, release the fall wire, start engine and get away. That they messed up the painter release sequence was not surprising.

This all took place in port. A real-life emergency deployment in a seaway would have been a total disaster.

Lifeboat and rescue boat crew must be well-drilled to develop confidence in, and competency at, the deployment of life saving daughter craft in as safe a manner as possible and despite the very obvious element of risk inherent in such an activity.

In order to significantly reduce the potential risk crew would be exposed to in an emergency situation with incompetent and poorly practised boat crews, scheduling drills should be given more attention.

Surely this is in the interests of greater safety for all

By Geoffrey Lotz. Group Manager of the Lifeboat Division of Novamarine based in Cape Town.

The results of these prevailing circumstances are easy to see offshore.

Crews are almost never confident,

seldom well-practised, and, not infrequently, clueless.

Ships, platforms and PS

s can generally have a boat away in something like eight to 12 minutes on average. There are many that of course take much longer.

Despite regulations, crew cannot gain familiarity with equipment because of inherent risk, thus never alleviating or reducing that risk through greater familiarity and confidence in operation, thus increasing risk of possible mishap or operator error during deployment in an emergency.

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Seafarers need to manage diabetes in order to remain at sea

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r Marcus Brauer, a General Practitioner from one of UK P I Clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s PEME approved clinics in South Africa, provides valuable medical insight into one of the industryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most concerning medical issues.

Diabetes affects 3 2 million people worldwide, and that number is expected to grow to 5 2 million by 2035. The early detection and effective early management of diabetes is one of the most satisfying parts of our work as PEME doctors, as we are able to, not only preserve and maintain the health of the seafarer, but also to assist them in understanding and managing their condition.

Diabetes is a progressive, non-communicable disease that is caused primarily by a sedentary lifestyle and an increasing consumption of sugars and starches in our diets, which lead to obesity and an increasing difficulty in controlling blood sugar levels. It is one of the most significant underlying risk factors for developing premature cardiovascular complications, followed by smoking and hypertension.

The PEME examination is the perfect time to screen for the risk factors for diabetes as well as the presence of early signs of diabetes. This allows for early recognition of seafarers at risk, and then careful monitoring and treatment.

Treatment involves seafarers taking the

following steps:

Minimising the intake of sugar in

sweetened foods (typically all packaged and processed foods, fruit juices, fizzy drinks and sauces).

Minimising the intake of starches

the main culprits being bread, potatoes, pasta and rice.

Exercising at least three times a week for 30 minutes, aiming to achieve an exercise heart rate of 75 percent of maximum.

Monitoring blood sugar levels with

tests such as urine glucose tests, blood sugar tests and a diabetes control measuring test, an HBA1C, which provides a measure of diabetes control over the last six weeks. The seafarer must also keep a logbook of their diabetes control to enable them to understand their health condition, and to take responsibility for its management.

Using the medication prescribed by

their doctor regularly and notifying their doctor of any change in their diabetes control, so that appropriate adjustments to their treatment regime can be made.

The treatment is aimed at correcting lifestyle measures and allows seafarers to remain gainfully employed in the careers to which they have often devoted their lives.

An over-reliance on GPS endangers ships

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he UK P I Club has made a call for ships to consider using alternative navigational methods in tandem with GPS to ensure safety. According to a statement issued by the club, although GPS has made a significant contribution to the safety and accuracy of marine navigation, issues such as signal jamming represent a danger to over-reliance on GPS instruments.

Continuing reports of alleged jamming of GPS signals, as well as the potential for other sources of signal interference, is of widespread concern to governments and to the shipping industry as a whole.

This can cause particular problems for vessels that have come to rely exclusively on GPS for position fixing, and highlights the importance of vessels using the full range of navigational equipment available to them, as required by SOLAS and STCW regulations.

The Club reports that the continued

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groundings and collisions seen in the industry can be attributed to basic errors of navigation by the ships involved. Aside from the disastrous loss of life and pollution, these incidents can prove to be extremely financially burdensome, both to the ship owners and to the wider shipping community, due to increased insurance premiums.

The UK P I Club, therefore, encourages navigating officers to practice traditional methods of navigation, including celestial observation and keeping a proper lookout, as a failure to do so is often mentioned in marine casualty reports.

Even with all the technological advances that have been made the sea remains as hostile a place as it has ever been. As such, UK P I believes that the safe navigation of a ship to its destination cannot yet be achieved purely with technological resources, and still requires the presence of experienced and properly trained people with traditional seafaring skills.

Shipping line gears maternity leave around motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s needs

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o improve the conditions for women on and returning from maternity leave and to increase the retention rates of female employees, Maersk Group has introduced a new maternity policy that was launched in South Africa and the rest of Maerskâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s global operations recently.

The new policy includes a programme allowing a phased reintegration to work for all onshore employees and a global guaranteed minimum of 1 weeks maternity leave on full pay for all employees. The Return-To-Work programme enables a smoother transition back to work, the opportunity to work 20 percent less hours at full contractual pay, as well as one week of paternity leave for male staff.

A study of womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s retention after childbirth in 76 countries across the Maersk Group shows that between 2012 and 201 the average maternity retention rate was less than 70 percent. Of the women that left after maternity leave, approximately 0 percent of these left within the first 12 months of their return from maternity leave.

According to Fakhrie Hisham, Human Resources Business Partner at Maersk Line, the phased return will enable women to have a smoother transition back to work and contribute to increased retention.

Additional research conducted by KPMG for Maersk suggests that favourable maternity leave policies have a positive impact on the labour market participation and contributes to higher employment rates of women.

This new policy supports our aim to retain the talented women working in the Group and attract even more to gain access to future and wider talent pools. The new policy aims to increase the global best practice maternity retention rate to 0 percent over time.

He says that over the past few years, clear diversity targets around hiring females have become part of attainable business goals in South Africa.

Creating policies that benefit women looking to start families will allow businesses to access a wider pool of female talent. In our experience, female candidates have enquired about the extent of the maternity packages before accepting a position, which shows that it is in fact is a major deciding factor to many employees.

Health, safety and managing risk in the maritime industries

Ballistic patrol vessels delivered to Nigeria

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ollowing successful sea-trials, C I Leasing Plc, has taken delivery of four Damen SPA 1605 ballistic protected security patrol vessels. The patrol boats will be used to provide security patrol and escort services for LNG tankers calling in and out of the Nigerian LNG Bonny terminal.

The 16-metre craft have aluminium hulls and GRP composite superstructures. The accommodation has been additionally clad with bulletproof materials to protect the personnel inside. All four vessels also feature upgraded water jets and engines for maximum performance.

After sales support is provided by a Damen Service Hub which was opened in Port Harcourt in early 2015. The hub also delivers on-site training and clears and delivers spare parts for the vessels.

Martin

erstraaten, Damen Regional

Service Manager Africa, says: The establishment of the Service Hub ensures a local presence with quick response times with field service engineers and a local Site Manager on the ground. This dynamic team maintains close contact with local repair facilities, cooperation with local suppliers and reinforces the strong relationship with our customers.

While receiving the boats in Lagos, Wisdom Nwagwu (General Manager of C I Leasing), disclosed that the NLNG contract, which was signed in late 201 , was for a five-year firm period with an option of a one-year extension and a cumulative option to a maximum of three years.

Damen is providing additional support to C I Leasing Plc. In November 2015, C I Leasing sponsored 12 candidates to travel to Damen Shipyards Galati, in Romania, for a period of six weeks to study various aspects of shipbuilding.

Four Damen SPA 1605 ballistic protected security patrol vessels have been supplied to a client working in the Nigerian offshore oil and gas industry.

The four patrol boats were fitted out at Damen Shipyards Gorinchem and delivered to Nigeria as a single batch at the beginning of April 2016. An eight metre RHIB for up to 10 passengers was also delivered as part of the package.

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Checklist app for lifesaving appliances

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and the UK P I Club have released a Life-Saving Appliances pocket checklist app to help ensure that ship personnel are trained in how to inspect, maintain and operate life-saving equipment, and that equipment is ready for use at all times.

The Life-Saving Appliances pocket checklist app will help reduce the risk of Port State Control detentions, as it includes a list of deficiencies relating to life-saving appliances found by PSC officers on ships classed by LR. The full series of six pocket checklist apps, consisting of: ILO MLC, ISM ISPS, Marine Fire Safety, Marine Pollution Prevention Port State Inspections, and now Life-Saving Appliances, are all available on iPhone, iPad and Android devices. The five existing apps have been well received by the marine industry worldwide and the ILO MLC and ISM ISPS pocket checklists apps also featured in Marine Insight’s list of top 10 mobile apps for seafarers.

The apps include functionality that enable ships’ crews and their managers to easily view necessary legislative and regulatory requirements save multiple checklists check off completed activities, add essential notes or images and send completed checklists via email.

Robert Brindle, LR’s Principal Specialist on Port State Control, commented: Today’s seafarers have demonstrated the need for portable, interactive and paperless solutions to on board safety related issues. The success of this series of apps helps to reinforce LR as one of the highest performing Recognised Organisations in the Paris and Tokyo MOU regions. LR’s aspiration is to continue to provide software solutions such as the apps, helping to ensure compliance with the latest regulations.

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Trained to respond to an emergency Sweat drips from the tip of my nose – despite the wind and the driving rain rattling against the dark bridge windows. I know that the Captain is going to give me hell for the wet stains on the chart, but I can’t pluck up the courage to call him to the bridge… yet. I have to figure out what to do about the mess I’m in first!

That damn fishing vessel! It keeps altering course – first to port, then to starboard and then back to port again. What the hell is the matter with him? Surely he knows that he is the Give Way vessel – surely he can see my navigation lights at this range?

“Excuse me Sir,” the lookout chimes in, “have you seen the vessel 4 points on the Port bow?”

“Yes, yes,” I gasp, “I know about it. Thanks.”

What to do? It’s only a mile away now and we are heading for disaster. I strain to focus on the ship. There it is; still 4 points, still no change to its aspect. The green sidelight looming larger with each passing moment.

“Lookout! Man the wheel - Hard a Starboard!” the Captain’s voice booms behind me. I freeze, knowing that he has somehow read the situation the instant he stepped onto the bridge.

The AB scrambles to the wheel, “Hard a Starboard Captain!” I feel the ship heel to port as the ship starts to turn and a warm hand clamp down on my shoulder: “Alright, let’s stop the exercise there and discuss what happened, ok?”

The lights go on as I stagger out of the bridge simulator. Just a game? No – it felt too real for that!

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ow things have changed and yet stayed the same. The international shipping industry has evolved a great deal from the simple days of sail where an owner master and his family lived on board and sailed the world, buying a hold of cargo here and selling it for a profit there. It’s now a sophisticated and regulated industry of oil tankers, container and bulk cargo vessels that cross the seas carrying raw material and manufactured goods.

Gone are the days of tall sailing ships and steamers that tramped the oceans manned by large crews of sailors who were either pressed into service, or sent to sea as boy-sailors to learn the trade under guidance of stern Officers and Master Mariners.

The trend now is lean and mean a large crew is simply too expensive and there’s no place for excess. Nevertheless, ships must be navigated safely the engines and systems must run efficiently, and seafarers must somehow be trained to perform their tasks without a deviation from the ship’s planned route.

How can we accomplish the latter One of the answers is the increased utilisation of simulation training to supplement the experiential training compo-

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nent that is so vital to enable the trainee to assimilate the knowledge, grasp the concept and hone the skills required.

Since 2003, the South African Maritime Training Academy (SAMTRA), a non-profit company, has provided about 13,000 seafarers of various disciplines, with skills enhancement training. It has grown a product offering of nine simulator-based courses to over 50 training courses and programmes.

The narrative above represents the type of immersive training experience that a Full-Mission Bridge simulator, such as those in use at SAMTRA, can provide. Mistakes are made without the tragic loss of life, property or damage to the environment. Rather in the simulator than out there in the deep!

At SAMTRA learners get the chance to feel the reality of the simulated scenarios and lessons learnt in this manner are truly lasting. They are able to bridge the divide between theory and practice in a safe environment and step out into the international shipping industry with growing confidence in their ability to compete with the best in the world.

By David Wolfaardt, Training Manager, SAMTRA

Maritime industry must coordinate search and rescue capacity

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uilding capability rather than reacting to tragedy should be the priority for maritime search and rescue (SAR) according to the International Maritime Rescue Federation (IMRF) who have called for the completion of the International Maritime Organisation’s Global Search and Rescue Plan.

Delivering a statement at the World Humanitarian Summit in May, the IMRF committed to championing this initiative and said that they would support governments and Search Rescue organisations internationally to deliver an integrated sea rescue service.

As IMRF CEO Bruce Reid explains: Not all humanitarian crises can be planned and managed for, but many have common characteristics and one is the lack of sophistication in local and national SAR coordination.

For the maritime interventions we need to see countries develop greater co-ordination capability - one of the most important aims of the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) Global SAR plan.

Every life lost at sea is a tragedy. A tragedy heightened, given the long-standing, internationally agreed commitment to rescue any person in distress at sea. Irrespective of circumstance whether a Syrian family seeking asylum, mixed migrants leaving Libyan shores or a Rohingyan refugee, every person in peril at sea should be rescued and transferred to safety.

This is not simply a moral conviction but an internationally agreed commitment. In the past 1 months, 5,127 migrants men, women and children have gone missing, believed drowned. Never has there been a more urgent need for the international community to cooperate. Simply, sea rescue must now be recognised, and resourced, as a priority humanitarian intervention.

Tackling this growing problem can only be helped through close co-operation along with the right equipment and training and the completion of the International Maritime Organisation’s Global Search and Rescue Plan.

With a focus on high-risk areas to provide vessels, training and equipment, the IMRF says that migrant drownings can be reduced.

Reid says that the Federation is keen to champion an international forum for dialogue on, and delivery of, sea rescue, inviting national and international humanitarian actors to explore innovative and higher-impact action.

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PRODUCT NEWS: EPIRB features highefficiency electronics

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he ACR GlobalFI is a full-featured EPIRB loaded with high-efficiency electronics for performance you can count on, including an internal 66 channel GPS for faster acquisition from a cold start. A protective keypad cover helps prevent false activation, and the all-new, user-replaceable battery pack has a 10-year replacement interval reducing the overall ownership cost and making replacement a breeze.

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ew radar system for SA avy’s eet replenishment ship

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new radar system was recently successfully installed and commissioned on the South African Navy’s fleet replenishment ship, the SAS Drakensberg.

The SharpEye radar system was installed by Kelvin Hughes, international experts in the design and supply of navigation and security surveillance systems. In addition to and S Band SharpEye radars the system includes IMO compliant displays and a dedicated tactical display with Kelvin Hughes Advanced Agile Tracker for helicopter approach and control.

With its advanced target detection capability, the solid-state SharpEye provides an industry leading level of maritime situational awareness. Through the digital pulse compression and Doppler processing of the radar returns, SharpEye can detect objects with a low Radar Cross Section (RCS), from semi-submersed objects to the smallest of uncooperative craft, even in the most severe of weather conditions.

With the integral Agile Tracker, the radar system provides reliable target tracking performance against fast, highly manoeuvrable surface and air targets.

The SAS Drakensberg is the largest, most sophisticated naval vessel to have been wholly designed and built in South Africa. Her primary role is to support and assist naval vessels at sea, enabling the South African Navy to deploy its forces for extensive periods over long distances.

Because the ship is designed and equipped to operate two large helicopters simultaneously, a key benefit of the Kelvin Hughes radar system is its ability to provide a Helicopter Control and Tracking capability, which satisfies the requirements of flight safety.

Mark Butler, Kelvin Hughes’ regional sales manager, commented: Kelvin Hughes has a long record of developing industry-leading naval radar applications and our SharpEye systems are currently being deployed on ships from 27 of the world’s navies.

Container terminal recognised for safety standards IMO SOLAS compliant SART

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he Pathfinder Pro is a fully approved Search and Rescue Transponder (SART) that complies with IMO SOLAS regulations. When interrogated by radar, the Pathfinder Pro returns 12 intense blips back to the vessels radar screen, greatly enhancing search and rescue efforts. The superior lithium battery provides over 6 hours of operating life in standby mode (waiting to be interrogated by radar) and 12 hours of active operating life (while interrogated by radar).

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he Ngqura Container Terminal (NCT) in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province was accredited with a NOSCAR status recently by NOSA. The score of 5 percent was achieved after the NOSA audit, which is recognised as an international benchmark in the management of Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental risks.

NOSA’s 2015 audit results, which have only just been released, not only show our outstanding performance in the realm of safety but reaffirm our commitment to teamwork and motivation as a terminal, says Noxolo Thabatha, Acting Terminal Manager, Ngqura Container Terminal.

The NOSCAR award is the highest rating in the NOSA system and recognises organisations that continuously commit to providing safe and healthy work environments for employees as well as the safety of cargo handled.

Until now TPT’s car terminals in Port Elizabeth and East London have been the leading lights and last October were recipients of NOSCAR awards for the fifth and tenth years respectively.

Safety, management of risk for staff and goods alike and sustainability is a priority.

It is one of the pillars of Transnet’s Market Demand Strategy and embedded in TPT’s value charter as it strives to attain and

maintain a standard of safety, health, environment and quality. This goes beyond the minimum legislative requirements to ensure it becomes more competitive and efficient, says Siya Mhlaluka General Manager, Eastern Cape.

Among the many items against which NCT was measured were the condition of the premises and housekeeping mechanical, electrical and personal safe guarding management of fire and other emergency risks SHE incident recording and investigations (known as the disabling incident frequency rate DIFR) and organisational management.

2015 was a safety precedent se ng year for NCT, which achieved zero major incidents for two consecutive months in January and February. In the 2015 2016 yearto-date an incident rate of 17 was achieved which is a substantial improvement on the 37 incidents of the 201 2015 financial year. This safety record affirms our commitment to not exceeding our safety target of 2 incidents in a year, said Thabatha.

The safety focus for the 2016 2017 year will be on changing employee mind-sets to be safety orientated and to improving the terminal’s DIFR. Employees must be more vigilant safety agents and habitually undertake the role of being their brother’s keeper when it comes to looking out for their fellow colleagues, she said.

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itted out for first aid and medical emergencies at sea

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ith the knowledge of the challenges faced by divers and crewmembers tasked with medical response at sea, Bridget Thomson and her team at C-Doc in Saldanha Bay have designed a modular medical kit for the maritime industry that makes medical response quicker and relieves some of the difficulties of dealing with a crisis remotely.

Having worked in the field as a trainer for medical personnel for 16 years and as a qualified registered nurse with numerous other qualifications in life support, occupational health and diving, Thomson has developed a modular, colour-coded system that separates equipment into bags according to likely procedures that will be undertaken at sea.

As a member of the South African Oil and gas Association (SAOGA) and International Marine Contractors (IMCA) C-DOC is familiar with the incidents occurring in the marine and diving environment. The development of the unique first aid medical system along with a log book and Helpful Hints Catalogue can also be used in training to ensure that the right people with the right knowledge and skills, using the right processes ensures optimal patient outcomes.

We wanted to create a user-friendly system that could help dive teams and crew

members respond to incidents at sea, she says adding that they are able to further tailor the modules to meet the requirements of the various maritime sectors and legislations emphasising the focus on compliance and user friendly.

Combined with the colour-coded modules for responding to specific situations, each module is clearly labelled specific to the emergency response or invasive procedure required and can be identified by any crewmember. Clear labelling enables personnel to select appropriate equipment and respond in an efficient manner during the anxiety and confusion of a sudden emergency.

The system has been developed from experience gained from teaching over the last 16 years as well as in response to actual incidents that we have been made aware of at sea, says Thomson. Use in our training centre has also shown improved structure and learning outcomes.

But what really makes the system stand out is the packaging of the system in to the Stretcher Bag which also doubles as a casualty handling device when opened out.

The stretcher bag is uniquely designed to unfold into a stretcher allowing quick and efficient transport of a casualty in any confined environment and is ideal for smaller

vessels that do not have a fully equipped medical lockers.

Thomsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experience and knowledge of the maritime emergency situation has helped ensure the development of a system that is completely appropriate for its intended environment.

We have already had an amazing response from clients who can see how it benefits their Safety Management Systems. The kits come with a hard copy and electronic logbook for the control and maintenance of the equipment assisting with compliance. The equipment is taken through a sterilisation process and our goal is to ensure that everything in the kit has a similar expiry date, she says.

The Helpful Hints Catalogue comes in book form and can be downloaded as an interactive app to assist crew to identify equipment and its uses. The catalogue reviews the effective design and optimal usage of medical equipment and care, highlighting the barriers that exist when working in remote, confined and hyperbaric environments. It also summarises the Patient Initial assessments and safe parameters of vital signs along with other helpful information.

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Understanding the dangers of mooring rope failure I received a Doctorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s report last week detailing the injuries suffered by a crewmember when a mooring rope failed whilst the ship was berthed in Saldanha Bay. The crewmember was rushed to hospital to be treated for very significant injuries. It reminded me, that in this year alone, we have already investigated several snapped mooring rope cases.

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esearch on the internet revealed that the UK P&I Club highlighted that in the last 20 years 58 percent of the injuries reported to the Club were as a result of mooring rope failures.

They also reported that in such cases, there was a one in four chance of leg injury or loss of limb; one in seven chance of back injury; one in nine chance of arm injury and one in seven chance of death. hese are signi ant statisti s that underline the dangers to crewmembers when handling mooring ropes and towage lines.

The UK P&I Club also reported that in 53 percent of all cases of personal injuries arising from mooring incidents, ropes have parted under load and personnel have been injured/killed by being within â&#x20AC;&#x153;snapback zonesâ&#x20AC;?.

The Club further reported that in 42 percent of the cases, ropes/wires have not parted, but injuries arose as a result of r es um ing r sli ing drum ends r i s r ers nnel eing aught r dragged y r es, r fr m tures ming m untings and thr ugh ther auses ll f these a idents ha e een in estigated at length and all the internati nal group of P&I Clubs have since produced l ss re enti n n ti es n h t a id these accidents occurring.

Avoiding accidents ari us internati nal shi ing dies ha e also reported on mooring rope accidents and what ship owners and crewmembers can do to avoid these accidents.

n ne arti ular ase, a r ller fairlead detached itself from its pedestal while bearing the load of a mooring line. The crewmember was standing in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;snap-back zoneâ&#x20AC;? and he as stru k y the s illating r e, which hurled him into the foremast causing signi ant head in uries he deta hed fairlead as r e ted si metres fr m the shi onto the quayside.

The UK P&I Club highlighted that in

the last 20 years

58%

of the injuries reported to the Club were

as a result of mooring rope failures

In order to prevent accidents, it is important that ship owners and crew carry out proper maintenance of all mooring equipment. The maintenance schedule should n rm the general s undness f all mnents and a a hments All mooring equipment should be sound and in g d rking nditi n and sh uld

e he ked f r asting as the e ui ment ill n t erf rm t the erating standard if this is the case. Failure to replace and check the equipment could result in material failure and there is danger f the i s being torn from the deck. ring erati ns are ha ard us ecause of the great loads that mooring lines are subjected to. This means that they are likely t art ith li le arning and with great force. Only the crewmembers in l ed in m ring erati ns sh uld e resent at m ring stati ns

Maintaining mooring equipment It is also vital that an appropriate procedure e ists n ard shi s t m nit r the nditi n f the r es in use s as t maintain a high le el f n den e ithin the crew that they can be replaced before they become materially weakened or degraded. hilst the shi may ha e a erti ate for the rope, paperwork does not make y u safe tual isual ins e ti ns sh uld be carried out on a regular basis.

Many P&I Clubs recommend a safety briefing ef re e ery m ring erati n s as to remind crewmembers of the risks ass iated ith the erati n hese safety rie ngs are als designed t remind them f safe rking ra ti es like n t ste ing over ropes or ropes becoming entangled ar und lim s he rie ng sh uld als include details of â&#x20AC;&#x153;snap-back zonesâ&#x20AC;?.

The snap-back zone A â&#x20AC;&#x153;snap-backâ&#x20AC;? is the sudden release of the energy stored in a tensioned mooring line when it parts as the mooring line reverts to

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its original length. Anybody standing within the â&#x20AC;&#x153;snap-back zoneâ&#x20AC;? at either ends of the rope risks injury or death.

There can be numerous snap-back zones depending on the mooring arrangements on board the ship and ship owners have been encouraged to paint demarcated snap-back zones on their ships to remind crewmembers of these high risk areas.

The risk of snap-back should also be raised at the re m ring safety meeting s as t serve as a further reminder to crewmembers to keep clear of snap back zones.

Incidents in the oil sector he il m anies nternati nal arine rum is a luntary ass iati n f oil companies with interest in the shipment of crude oil, oil products, petrochemicals and gas. In 2015 they prepared an informati n age f r their mem ers highlighting the dangers of mooring rope failure following an incident on a very large liquid natural gas carrier.

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when the mooring line parted. OCIMF subsequently reminded their members of the need to carry out risk assessments prior to any m ring erati n the im rtan e f proper maintenance as well as equipment he ks, and identifying sna a k nes

avoided by the use of common sense. It is theref re im rtant that safety rie ngs are arried ut ri r t the erati n s that the ari us risks identi ed in the risk assessment are pointed out to the crewmembers.

es ite these many l ss re enti n n ti es and inf rmati n ne s asts, in uries t re mem ers ntinue t ur as a result of equipment and mooring rope failure.

Safety should never be taken for granted which means that only those people inl ed in the m ring erati n sh uld e in the mooring area.

Many of these accidents could have been

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Maritime crime scene workshop held in Madagascar

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n INTERPOL training course aimed to enhance the ability of local law enforcement to conduct effective maritime crime scene investigations was hosted in Madagascar during April.

Some 26 participants from the forensic, border and port police, Navy, Gendarmerie and port authorities took part in the five-day training course, held in collaboration with Forensic Consulting France.

Along with training in techniques to collect evidence in maritime environments, the participants were trained in the use of INTERPOL’s policing capabilities including the Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) gateway, the INTERPOL Firearms Reference Table (IFRT) and the INTERPOL Illicit Arms Records and tracing Management System (iARMS). International standards on the exchange of biometric data were also discussed.

INTERPOL, through its Project CRIMLEA, also provided crime scene collection kits

and digital cameras to the participating agencies.

Additionally, the participants visited the hospital ship Africa Mercy, where the captain and head of security briefed them on vessel safety and security and the rules of the International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code.

The training course was organised under Project CRIMLEA (Critical Maritime Routes Law Enforcement Agency), a sixyear programme financed by the European Union Instrument contributing to Stability and Peace and implemented by INTERPOL as part of the EU s Critical Maritime Routes Programme.

Project CRIMLEA aims at reinforcing forensic and investigative capacities of law enforcement agencies from nine countries bordering the western Indian Ocean Comoros, Djibouti, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Somalia, Tanzania and Yemen to investigate and ultimately prosecute acts of piracy and other maritime-based organized crime threats.

IMO Interacts with Africa for added security JUNE: The G7 Group of Friends of the Gulf of Guinea met in Lisbon, Portugal in early June to discuss the prevention of piracy and armed robbery against ships as well as illicit maritime activity in west as well as central Africa. The meeting focused on the implementation of the Code of Conduct, which was signed by governments in the region in 2013 to enhance cooperation to counter piracy and armed robbery at sea.

ed a declaration that identifies key priorities and paves the way for long term maritime safety and security and sustainable development in the ESA-IO.

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Key decisions included moving beyond piracy to address all forms of maritime threats and crimes (such as, amongst others, illegal unregulated and unreported fishing, toxic dumping, human trafficking, drug smuggling) extending the scope of the Djibouti Code of Conduct and focussing on developing States’ national maritime capabilities.

IMO attended the 3rd Regional Ministerial Meeting for Promoting Maritime Safety and Security in the Eastern and Southern Africa and Indian Ocean Region (ESA-IO). The meeting in Djibouti adopt-

The meeting was held under the auspices of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) and the European Union (EU) MASE programme. Chris Trelawny represented IMO.

Major acquisition likely in lifesaving sector

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The company has customers all over the world in all the relevant segments such as oil and drilling companies as well as shipyards for deep-sea vessels, tankers, container ships and passenger ships.

Together with Harding, Palfinger will be in a position to become a one-stop shop, offering its customers high-end packages for products and services.

Harding is an excellent addition to PALFINGER’s marine business. Both the portfolio and the service network offer numerous synergies and there is hardly any overlapping. Together, we will become the market leader in lifesaving equipment.

The acquisition of Harding by Palfinger is contingent on the approval of the authorities. Subject to the positive outcome of the due diligence audit and the final negotiations, the signing is scheduled to take place in the coming weeks.

Celebrating Global Safety Day

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Managing hazards and risks are key to creating and maintaining a safe working environment. The theme of this year’s Global Safety Day was fully in line with our ambition to build an inclusive and collaborative safety culture across all of our business units. It was an exciting day which put the spotlight on our new Global Operating Standard on Risk Management, said Kevin Furniss, ice President, Health, Safety, Security and Environment.

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Long-term decline in shipping losses continues but economic pressures, cyber risk and super-storms challenge safety progress Shipping losses continued their long-term downward trend with 85 total losses reported worldwide in 2015, according to Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE’s (AGCS) fourth annual Safety and Shipping Review 2016, which analyses reported shipping losses of over 100 gross tons.

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lthough the number of losses remained stable year-on-year, declining by just three percent compared with the previous year ( ), 2015 was the safest year in shipping for a decade. Losses have declined by 5 percent since 2006, driven by an increasingly robust safety environment and self-regulation. However, disparities by region and vessel-type remain.

Increased losses expected in Africa In 2015, East and West African coasts saw losses of six ships bringing the tally of vessels lost between 2006 and 2015 to .

Shipping safety and security remains a challenge on the continent due to historic underdevelopment of the maritime industry. AGCS Africa expects an increase in loss-

Activity is spread across all days of the week, although Thursday seems to see the most incidents and Saturday the fewest.

The East Mediterranean and Black Sea ( ) remains the top incident hotspot.

Three vessels share the accolade of being the most incident-prone: a ro-ro in the Great Lakes region, a hydrofoil in the East Mediterranean and Black Sea and a ferry in the British Isles with 1 incidents over the past decade.

Economic pressures challenge safety at sea While the long-term downward trend in shipping losses is encouraging, the continuing weak economic and market conditions, depressed commodity prices and an excess of ships are pressurising costs, raising safety concerns.

It is critical that economic pressures do not allow a “put it off until later” safety mentality to develop, AGCS experts warn. Some shipowners are already stretching maintenance to longest possible intervals while others are laying-up vessels. es as the industry acquires more ships in line with the African Union’s Agenda 2063, which has prioritised the marine economy as a major contributor to growth within the continent. The insurance industry will continue to play a key role in protecting and growing marine insurance risks on the continent, said Allianz Global Corporate Specialty Africa Technical Underwriting Manager Mark Govender.

More than a quarter of all losses occurred in the South China, Indochina, Indonesia and Philippines region (22 ships). Losses increased year-on-year, unlike other major regions.

Cargo and fishing vessels accounted for over 60 percent of ships lost globally, with cargo losses up for the first time in three years. The most common cause of total losses is foundering (sinking), accounting for almost 75 percent of losses up 25 percent, and often driven by bad weather.

There were 2,6 7 reported shipping incidents (casualties including total losses) globally during 2015, down four percent.

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AGCS has seen an increase in frequency losses over the past year, which can likely be attributed to some extent to this environment.

The economic downturn and its impact on the shipping sector - is likely to have a negative impact on safety, says Captain Rahul Khanna, Global Head of Marine Risk Consulting, AGCS. Many sectors, such as general cargo, bulk and offshore, are already challenged and any drop in safety standards will be a serious case for concern.

It is critical that economic pressures do not allow a put it off until later safety mentality to develop, AGCS experts warn. Some shipowners are already stretching maintenance to the longest possible intervals while others are laying-up vessels.

Reactivation of these vessels to a market that has moved on technologically may result in a painful exercise. There is a need for standardised lay-up procedures, says Captain Jarek Klimczak, Senior Marine Risk Consultant, AGCS. As well as impacting investment in vessel maintenance, cost pressures can impair crewing conditions, passenger ship safety and salvage and rescue. AGCS has seen an increase in fatigue-related insurance claims over the past decade.

With crew numbers already often at their lowest possible level, and a future staffing shortage anticipated, longer shift patterns could exacerbate this issue. Meanwhile, training remains below par in some areas, such as electronic navigation, which should not be seen as panacea, but as a complementary tool.

Although significant progress has been made in passenger ship safety, concerns remain, particularly around non-international voyages. Some parts of Asian domestic trade remain years behind international standards, as evidenced by a number of recent domestic ferry losses in South East Asian waters. Profit pressures mean scheduling maintenance can be challenging.

“Mega ship” salvage issues and superstorm ship sinkings The appetite for ever-larger container ships has seen cargo-carrying capacity of the largest vessels increase by 70 percent over 10 years to 1 ,000 containers. Two mega ships , the CSCL Indian Ocean and APL Vanda were grounded in February 2016, raising questions about a more serious incident.

There are concerns that commercial pressures in the salvage business have reduced easy access to the salvors required for recovery work on this scale. The industry may need to prepare for a $1billion plus total loss scenario.

The report also notes that exceptional weather events are becoming more commonplace, bringing additional risks and disruption to supply chains. This year, the effect of a super El Ni o is expected to lead to more extreme weather conditions.

Meanwhile, bad weather was a factor in three of the five largest vessels lost last

There are concerns commercial pressures in the salvage business have reduced easy access to the salvors required for recovery work on this scale. The industry may need to prepare for a $1billion plus total loss scenario.

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year, including the El Faro, one of the worst US commercial maritime disasters in decades.

The fact that superstorms are causing ships to sink is concerning, says Sven Gerhard, Global Product Leader Hull Marine Liabilities, AGCS. We are seeing more and heavier natural catastrophe events. Weather routing will continue to be a critical component to the safe navigation of vessels.

Cyber risk evolves, as piracy threat grows The shipping industry’s reliance on interconnected technology also poses risks. Cyber risk exposure is growing beyond data loss. There have already been a number of notable cyber incidents and technological advances including the Internet of Things (IoT) and electronic navigation means the industry may only have a few years to prepare for the risk of a vessel loss.

Pirates are already abusing holes in cyber security to target the theft of specific cargoes, says Captain Andrew Kinsey, Senior Marine Risk Consultant, AGCS. The cyber impact cannot be overstated. The simple fact is you can’t hack a sextant.

For the first time in five years piracy attacks failed to decline in 2015.

South East Asia attacks rose, accounting for 60 percent of all incidents.

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Fishing vessel gets makeover after fire damage

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hipwright Services, Hesper Engineering’s carpentry division, recently won a tender to rebuild the cabins, mess rooms, galley, alleyways and bridge of the iking fishing vessel, Andromeda following an extensive fire on board that resulted in serious damage.

With a timeline of just over three months to strip out all the damaged panelling, insulation, flooring, furniture as well as fixtures and finish the rebuilding process, the team began the project in February this year and handed over the completed vessel for seatrials in May. The team stripped out the damaged interior to the bare steel bulkheads and decks, which had to be washed down to remove soot and smoke odours. All steelwork was then primed and painted.

The carpentry team of approximately 13 got stuck in with the manufacturing of all the new bunks, cupboards and bulkhead panelling, which were covered in Formica. All new fi ngs, mattresses, curtains and plumbing and galley fi ngs were renewed and fitted, and all floors were insulated prior to fi ng all decking.

Working together with the owner-appointed electricians, the bridge need to be completely rebuilt due to the heat damage caused by the fire below. This included all panelling, instrument consoles and counter tops, deck heads and fi ngs.

The project was completed for sea trials on the 17th of May and the client was satisfied with the quality and progress of the project, says James Wrensch of Hesper Engineering, who adds that the division can be contracted for any project. Shipwright Services are able to deliver on projects, big or small. Clients can be confident that work will be carried out within budget and on time without compromising.

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AC has launched its own operation in Namibia in response to growing demand from their oil and gas customers and increasing cargo trade between the country and neighbouring South Africa, as well as other African nations.

The formation of GAC Shipping (Namibia) (Pty) Ltd represents the latest stage in the Group’s expansion in Africa. The Group is represented by a network of its own offices or trusted and constantly monitored agents in nearly 0 other countries throughout the continent.

For the past 15 years, GAC has worked with a sub-agent in Namibia but with its growing oil and gas expertise, lay-up services newly introduced in Namibia and South Africa and growing cargo trades between the country and other African countries, it was decided that the time was right to expand.

The company provides a portfolio of ship agency services for vessels calling at the country’s ports, from its central office close to Walvis Bay port.

That service package includes bunker fuel supplies, offshore support, dry-docking, project logistics and husbandry, as well as lay-up and warm stacking support and for all sorts of vessels from liners, oil and gas carriers, tankers and more.

Managing Director Eric Barnard says the new office gives clients the additional peace of mind that comes from dealing directly with the GAC Group.

GAC Namibia is also supported by a dynamic team in South Africa, with vast knowledge of the local industry and the necessary experience to represent our clients and take care of all their requirements in Namibia, he adds.

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Partnership brings international expertise to African mar et

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new partnership between Nautic Africa, a Paramount Group company, and Mariflex will bring international expertise in liquid cargo handling to the African market through the transfer of skills and exposure to the global market.

Seeking to develop a footprint in Africa, Mariflex’s previous collaboration with Nautic Africa and its employees has resulted in the establishment of a partnership that will see the creation of Mariflex Africa powered by Nautic Africa.

A number of Nautic’s employees have already gained experience working in Holland at Mariflex and a formalised partnership that would provide Mariflex with a presence in the African market seemed like a logical development, says James Fisher, CEO of Nautic Africa.

“We are able to share ideas and learn engineering skills from each other, he says

noting that the partnership will be mutually beneficial for both companies.

Mariflex Africa is already operating and services are available 24 hours a day and seven days a week. A recent successful project required the team to o oad 2 ,000 metric tons of vegetable oils from an oil tanker.

Future plans include the establishment of a base for ship-to-ship transfers and the penetration of the combined services further into Africa. In addition specialised equipment is due to arrive from Holland to provide a more effective professional service to local clients.

In addition technical expertise to ensure that advice, assistance and solutions for any identified challenges can be found before, during and after the transfer or transshipment of liquid bulk cargo is continuously available.

Future plans for the autic ari ex partnership include the esta lishment of a ase for ship-to-ship transfers and the penetration of the com ined services further into Africa.

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The Furuno FMD-3000 Series provides the operator with quick access to the tasks and functions that need to be performed in the midst of vessel operation. The new ECDIS employs intelligently arranged Graphic User Interface elements: Status Bar and InstantAccess Bar that deliver task-based operation scheme to give the operator direct access to necessary operational procedure.

The Status Bar at the top of the screen provides operating status, including modes of operation and presentation. The InstantAccess Bar on the left edge of the screen provides quick access to functions available in each of the ECDIS operating modes.

The contents of the InstantAccess Bar change according to the operating modes selected on the Status Bar. This combination of the Status Bar and InstantAccess Bar covers virtually the entire operation.

This streamlines the navigation monitoring procedure, reducing the risk of confusion and erroneous operation as well as to enhance situation awareness. Also, the new ECDIS uses cu ng edge chart-drawing engine that delivers instantaneous chart redraw with the seamless zooming and panning, hence making the ECDIS operation stress-free.

By default, the functions of ECDIS as well as conning information display are available in the FMD-3200 and the FMD-3300. With the necessary radar sensor input, they can also be extended to operate as radar/chart radar and alert management system, once activated.

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ighlighting the enefits of trac ing fishing grounds for added efficiency

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arine Navigation Systems (MNS) recently invited members of the fishing industry to a seminar to highlight the benefits of tracking fishing grounds with the CLS CATSAT system. With Alexandre Pereira from the Oceanography Division of CLS France on hand to answer questions, a number of vessel owners learned how the system can help shorten fishing trips, reduce fuel costs and boost fishing confidence.

The information provided by the CATSAT subscription is aimed at helping fishing companies scientifically target fishing grounds based on satellite information that tracks ocean currents (sub and surface), plankton concentration, sea surface temperature, sub-surface

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temperature, ocean currents, salinity, thermocline and weather forecasts.

Following the introduction, a number of trials are currently being undertaken in the South African fishing sector. eon van Antwerpen (Sailors Joy fishing vessel Customers were unaware of the alance), evin Fa ri (Atu-S Fishing vessel Atu-S), product and thus a lot of ground Alexandre ereira (Sales anager Space ceanography ivision - C S France), aymond Fullex (Sales represenwork needs to be done to introduce tative of arine avigation Systems) and Andile hloit. The trials are helping a lot as the mo ( anaging irector of arine avigations Systems). customers are familiarising themselves with the product and experiencing the efficiencies it offers, customised to the customer’s requiresays Andile Dhlomo, managing director of ments and budget. A vessel aiming to MNS. benefit from the system needs to have MNS offers a basic subscription packa computer on board and access to data age to CATSAT, which can be additionally downloads while at sea.

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Fishing company sets up high-end retail outlet

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ea Harvest has opened its first high-end outlet in Sea Point, Cape Town. The outlet will sell primarily fresh seafood and has obtained an accredited Kosher status.

According to Shop Manager, Michael Mendonca, the species sold includes Cape Hake, Norwegian Salmon that is regularly flown in, and Kingklip.

“Sea Harvest caters for the discerning palette and all the chilled products offered are available to be filleted, portioned and cut to individual customer’s specifications. The store also has live crayfish and oyster tanks, as well as an

array of frozen pre-packed products and a small selection of Sea Harvest branded specialty items, says Mendonca adding that the five dedicated off street parking bays add to the convenience when visiting the store.

The Sea Harvest Fish Shop looks to capture the essence of its iconic South African fishing brand and to make this available to the community within the greater Atlantic Seaboard area. The company has a further five fish shops situated around the country in Silverton, Pretoria, Paarl, redenburg, Saldanha Bay and Piketberg.

The new high-end Sea arvest retail outlet in Sea oint has osher accreditation and offers a variety of products for the discerning palette.

Training centre receives accreditation

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autic Maritime Training Academy (NMTA) recently received South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA) accreditation for a number of their courses relating to Certificates of Competences for skippers under a variety of conditions and can now offer SAMSA approved tickets from Day Skipper level upwards.

Offering theoretical and practical training in all aspects of vessel operation and maintenance, the Academy aims to provide crew training that maximises vessel operation.

Accreditation for courses include documents for skippers of deepsea skiboats, rubberducks ( RHIBS Rigid Hull Inflatable Boats ) and other small craft under nine metres and up to 25 tons. Further accreditation for the training of day skippers for category R, E, C, B vessels over nine metres as well as coastal skipper’s tickets for operations up to 0 nautical miles offshore was awarded. The latter applies to vessels over

nine metres but less than 100 tons.

Crew training includes theory and practical modules addressing all areas of vessel operation and maintenance training including safety procedures, vessel handling, capabilities and limitations as well as on-board maintenance.

“We know that the ocean demands a high level of competence and our dedication and expert training aims to ensure that crews achieve the highest standards, says Neil de illiers, who heads up the Academy and also conducts the over nine metre examination and practical assessments.

He is joined by Ian Alison who has been appointed as the under nine metre examiner.

Classes are undertaken at the Nautic Africa premises in Paarden Eiland with exams and practicals scheduled every two to three weeks or as the demand arises.

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allenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) recently announced the establishment of a link between some of the most promising emerging markets in West and Central Africa and exporters from Asia, Oceania and North America.

WWL’s new RoRo connection to Africa will link major exporters in Asia, Oceania and North America with key ports in Central and West Africa. The service will be based on a connecting carrier agreement with a first-rate carrier that has more than 25 years of experience on the African continent.

WWL will ship the goods from Asia, North America and Oceania to either Zeebrugge or Antwerp in Europe, where they will be transshipped to WWL’s partner’s RoRo vessels servicing West and Central Africa, WWL’s ice President and Head of Emerging Markets Werner an Dessel explains. WWL will provide the through bill of lading, covering the cargo from the first port of load to the final port of discharge.

No other major global carrier is providing a RoRo service of this kind with transshipment in Northern Europe, he says.

Although Africa still has a long way to go before it can be compared with the developed world, there’s every indication that the continent will continue to evolve in a positive way, he says.

And, with a huge population of young consumers, Africa’s buying power is only going to increase.

Going forward, we expect to see increasing demand for construction and agricultural equipment for farming and infrastructure developments, as well as substantial demand for autos to support increased wealth, an Dessel says.

WWL has appointed agents on the ground in each of the 10 new African destinations. The agents have been selected on the basis of their strong local presence, market knowledge and ability to offer high-quality solutions to WWL and its customers. Many of them will also supply or facilitate inland and terminal services in their respective markets.

This new connection will allow us to close a gap in WWL’s global service offering, an Dessel says. Whereas in the past customers had to talk to two or three different suppliers to cover these routes, we’re now here as a single point of contact for the customer, with the capability to manage their entire journey.

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Massive investment for container transshipment hub

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wo new landmarks at the Port of Ngqura, which are part of ongoing developments to position the port as a container transshipment hub for Sub-Saharan Africa, were officially launched by Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) in May. The new landmarks include the port’s state-of-the-art administration building and an administration craft basin for pilot boats and tugboats, including office facilities for operational staff working on these vessels.

Also included in TNPA’s latest R700 million investment is the vacuum based automated mooring technology pioneered at Ngqura last year. Produced by global engineering group, Cavotec, the 26 mooring units were designed, custom manufactured and installed to meet the specific environmental conditions of the Port of Ngqura, where strong winds can negatively impact on cargo operations, safety and the port’s efficiency.

TNPA Chief Executive, Richard allihu, said: These three major operational projects form part of Transnet’s Market Demand Strategy which is now in its fourth year of implementation and, which aims to enable the effective, efficient and economic functioning of an integrated port system to promote economic growth.

Ngqura Port Manager, Mpumi Dweba, said: “Such endeavours support the tremendous growth of the Port of Ngqura and match its profile as a world-class container hub, which is encouraging significant investment in the region. They are designed to improve port efficiency and are boosting the economy of the Eastern Cape in the short term by creating additional jobs.

Dweba added: Specifically during the construction phase of the admin building and admin craft basin we have so far created 15 jobs at a cost of over R1 million all of which goes into the Eastern Cape economy. Forty eight of these jobs

ight elson andela ay Executive ayor anny Jordaan, Ngqura Port Manager Mpumi we a and T A Chief Executive ichard allihu cele rate the ongoing construction of the port’s administration uilding which is due for completion at the end of this year.

have been created for Black youth, while 2 5 Eastern Cape employees are also benefiting from skills develelow Soweto-on-Sea rimaopment programmes ry School received computassociated with these ers donated y Cavotec as part projects. of the contractor’s corporate social investment contribution In addition, 16 small under the mooring system businesses in the Eastcontract. ern Cape have been engaged to provide materials, equipment and services at a cost of R .36 million a further injection into the local economy.

A highlight of the launch was the handover of 10 computers to Soweto-onSea Primary School, donated by Cavotec as part of their corporate social investment Craft basin contribution under the mooring system To date Ngqura has operated without an contract. The donation, which included administration craft basin for the docking installation and networking, will enable of marine craft such as pilot boats and learners to access the Internet and gain tugboats, as well as various vessels belonginsight into Transnet and TNPA’s business ing to SAPS and SANPARKS. as well as opportunities in the maritime industry.

The new R362 million administration craft Construction of the R255 million adminbasin located at the root of the eastern istration building, which will be one of the breakwater in the port basin will facilitate premier green’ buildings in the Nelson this process safely in line with Ngqura’s Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, growing fleet of craft. is well underway with completion targeted Construction of the administration craft for the end of this year. TNPA is pursuing a basin is planned for completion at the end -Star Green Star SA rating from the Green of the year. Dredging is well underway and Building Council of South Africa (GBCSA) marine construction has commenced. for the building, which comprises a stateAll Ngqura projects are subject to lengthy of-the-art five-storey building with a baseenvironmental assessment, design and ment level and external parking areas. tender stages to ensure that they comply With capacity to house 205 staff, it with the strict conditions governing Ngquwill cater for Ngqura’s growing human ra’s operations in this environmentally resources as the port continues to create sensitive area. TNPA controls and adminisjobs within the region to support its ongoing expansion. ters the port.

ew enyan container terminal welcomes first vessel

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he second Mombasa Container Terminal successfully berthed the MV Busan Trader at the end of April marking the inauguration of operations at the new facility.

The container vessel, with a length overall of 210 metres, sailed into the Kilindini channel to make history alongside berth No.21 on the 300 m long quay. Laden with 1, 6 TEUs, the Busan Trader was scheduled to discharge 3 TEUs and load a similar number on her return voyage.

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tyred gantries and 14 terminal tractors were deployed to the vessel for ship and yard operations. According to CMA-CGM operations Manager Rajeeve Fernando who was at hand to receive the vessel, the ship was on her second call to the port of Mombasa. He expressed satisfaction with the facilitation for the docking process by the Kenya Ports Authority.

We at CMA-CGM are very delighted and honoured to have been accorded the priority to berth the first vessel at the new container terminal, he added.

The new container terminal was handed over to the Kenya Ports Authority by the Japanese contractor, TOYO recently. The first phase, comprises berths No 20 and 21 measuring 250m and 300m respectively and a small berth. Also under this phase was the procurement of two ship-to-shore gantries and four rubber tyred gantries and construction of a container stacking yard on a 35 acre reclaimed area.

The draft of the new terminal is minus 15m alongside and is capable of berthing fourth generation vessels of above 6,000 TEU capacity. The facility has an annual capacity of 550,000 TEUs.

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The second shoal uster was launched at the amen Shipyard Cape Town facilities for Smit Amandla arine and e eers.

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he second of two vessels destined to support the world s largest offshore diamond mining operation was named at the Damen Shipyards Cape Town facilities.

The Aogatoa will join her sister vessel, the Aukwatowa, which is already successfully operating from Port Nolloth.

This brings to an end the newbuild programme initiated by Smit Amandla Marine and De Beers in 2013 and represents a collaboration with Damen Shipyards Cape Town to deliver modern vessels to support the offshore diamond operations.

The fleet renewal programme provides modern technology on vessels that are bigger, faster and more comfortable for the crew. Speaking at the launch function in Cape Town, Hennie du Plessis, Head of Supply Chain Maangement at De Beers Marine, confirmed that the new vessels had substantially boosted the morale of the crew.

He added that the optimised loading space, improved maneuverability and faster turnaround time to the diamond mining vessels, would help reduce costs as well as improve the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s carbon footprint.

The vessel was named by Lady Sponsor, Adri Nelson, the Supply Chain Centre Manager for De Beers Group Services in Port Nolloth. She has managed the logistics base for eight years and been integral to the supply vessel newbuild project.

The naming of the Aogatoa, which means safe return signals the completion of the newbuild project that began in 2013 with a commitment by De Beers and Smit Amandla Marine to replace the vessels operating out of Port Nolloth.

Built to a shoalbuster design, both 30 m vessels use the most modern technology available and the construction has led to job creation and skills transfer at the shipyard, thereby supporting the growth and transformation strategies of business and government in the maritime sector, and the objectives of the National Industrial Participation Programme.

Smit Amandla Marine and De Beers have been operational in Port Nolloth for more than three decades and will later this year

epresentatives from amen, Smit Amandla arine, epartment of Trade ndustry and e eers cele rated the partnerships involved in this milestone event

From left to right Adri elson, Sharon St Clair- olam, Julianne ussouw and ernhardine omanes from e eers toast the new launch of the new vessel.

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celebrate the 4,000th supply run with the community.

with economic activities locally and providing skills that are marketable in industry.

The companies participate with the communities in the region, advancing skills development and supporting courses leading to qualifications in careers associated

Paul Maclons, managing director of Smit Amandla Marine, confirmed the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ongoing commitment to developing the maritime economy and job creation.

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The Sierra-Leone Maritime Administration (SLMA) has solicited the support of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) in the areas of capacity building of its personnel for effective Port State Control and training of seafarers.

With exclusive distribution rights for Webasto products in Sub Saharan Africa, Southern Power, aims to establish a dealership network that services key regions and countries on the continent.

As a factory distributor for Webasto Germany, Southern Power is able to provide full system development for unique applications where customisation is key.

The South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA) Centre for Seafarers announced the launch of a new Seafarer Certificate in early May in compliance with the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watch-keeping for Seafarers, 1 7 , as amended (STCW Convention) and the Merchant Shipping (Safe Manning, Training and Certifications) Regulations, 2013, as amended (the Regulations).

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ew oating doc destined for ur an A new multi million rand composite oating doc is destined to enhance the ship repair and maintenance facilities in the ort of ur an. amed Dormac Dock 1, the oating doc left the allada Shipyard in the raine at the end of April under tow of the tug Fairplay 33. She undertoo the , nautical mile ourney via the Atlantic sea oard to South Africa and was expected to arrive in ur an efore the end of June.

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he arrival of the new investment represents the realisation of a Dormac strategy to own and operate a drydock that dates back 16 years to when Dorbyl Marine Durban and Imac (a Southey Holdings Company) decided to merge their businesses in June 2000.

Unlike the other floating docks in operation in South Africa and neighbouring Namibia, Dormac Dock 1 will arrive as a brand new entity with the latest state-ofthe-art technologies that includes two new 7.5 ton cranes.

The dock will be placed alongside a specially designed and constructed quay, which has been partly reclaimed from Dormac’s leased land, making this unusual by reversing the usual order and adding to the water area of Durban Bay.

n ineere for efficienc Featuring a reinforced ferro-concrete pontoon with steel sides, particular attention has been placed on the design of the dock and quay to focus on green energy-efficient technologies that will be adopted for all floating dock operations.

Once alongside, the dock will be fixed to the new quayside by two accurately-driven 25m deep pylons on which it will raise or lower with connection pawls.

The dock is equipped with modern computerised levelling and load equipment, which will introduce a stable levelling process that features faster docking

and undocking times.

With the floating dock alongside a newly built repair quay, as opposed to the more common ‘Mediterranean-mooring type of placement, repair work undertaken will benefit from close access to Dormac’s adjacent state-of-the-art workshop facilities.

Permanent site establishment will be in place for docking needs and reduce set up times for procedures such as blasting.

“The spin offs to Dormac’s business partners will ensure that those contractors and suppliers will also create additional jobs. This signi ant invest ent will hugel in rease our through ut with over do kings er annu reated as additional a a it A newly hardened work area has been created alongside the quay that covers the old derelict slipway, which has not been in use for over 30 years. This ensures efficient use of valuable harbour land, which is particularly ideal as an on-location fabrication and laydown area for equipment close to the docked vessel.

The yard has an office block available for project personnel within 50 metres of the dock entrance. Security is enhaned through the use of fully electronic biometric access control to, not only enhance ISPS commitments, but to improve productivity measures.

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ith a coastline of 112 km, the Ugu District in Kwazulu Natal, South Africa has contracted consultants to help develop a maritime strategy that will unlock economic opportunities for the district.

Lindon Consulting Corporation has been assigned the task to develop a model for the integrated approach to maritime industry growth with a focus on facilitating public-private partnerships and improving investment as well as collaboration in maritime education.

According to a document distributed by Lindon Consulting, education and training are envisioned to be of key importance and cognizance will be given to the establishment of a maritime centre of excellence as well as to facilitating the improvement of capacity building and skills development for the maritime industry.

Having commenced work on the strategy document in February, the consulting team is due to deliver a report in August this year.

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docking capacity in South Africa and particularly in the port of Durban, where the Transnet-owned floating dock has been out of commission for many years while the graving dock has also until now suffered from a lack of maintenance and repair. The result has been the loss of numerous ship repair opportunities The business case for this project is absolutely sound and the revenue generated is expected to be a major expansion to the Dormac bottom line. The Dormac shipyard will be a centre of excellence for ship repair business and is certainly a huge stimulus to, not only Durban, but to the South African market as well, says Chris Sparg, managing director of Dormac.

The business case is one that is based on attracting additional docking opportunities into the port of Durban.

We are confident that the international market will take serious note of this addition to South Africa and Durban’s port facility. Several of Dormac’s large international clients have expressed resounding delight at the prospect of this stimulus and we are encouraged by the fact that the ports in South Africa are taking heed of the initiatives of the government’s Operation Phakisa, which seeks to leverage the capacity of the South African maritime industry, he says.

Sparg adds that the new floating dock, based on the regular throughput of envisaged dockings, could create an additional 0 new direct jobs.

The spin offs to Dormac’s business partners will ensure that those contractors and suppliers will also create additional jobs. This significant investment will hugely increase our throughput with over 5 dockings per annum created as additional capacity.

“We are also proud to announce that Dormac’s excellent award winning artisan training program is being extended to include drydocking skills and we have already begun recruiting apprentices. Just the drydocking training will amount to a class of 25 apprentices per annum. All in all, the Dormac project fits in perfectly with the intentions of Operation Phakisa, he says.

Given the intensive use of shipping it is

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logical to think of increased opportunities for ship repair, provided the suitable facilities are available. By introducing Dormac Dock 1 at Durban, Dormac will be well positioned to take advantage of these opportunities.

The new dock is the single largest investment in the history of Dormac, which is a division of Southey Holdings (Pty) Ltd. Commissioning is planned to commence in June this year and already a number of bookings have been taken.

Dimensions:

Overall length: 155 metres

Pontoon length: 13 .5 metres

Pontoon height: . metres

Dock height: 12. metres

Width at outer side: 32. metres

Width between entry fenders: 2 .5 metres

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Two high voltage transformers

Four ballast electric pumps

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igeria targets strategic growth in maritime industry to enefit local usinesses

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peaking in parliament recently, the Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Dr Dakuku Peterside, highlighted the Agency’s focus on strategic growth with a commitment to benefiting benefiting indigenous operators and the country at large.

NIMASA will target five key areas in 2016 including maintaining safety and security maintenance of a clean environment enhanced port state control building human and infrastructural capacity and eliminating corruption.

“There will be zero tolerance for corruption, he told the House of Representatives.

According to the DG, the Agency aims to tap into the vast potentials of the Nigerian maritime industry by growing indigenous capacity with a view to making Nigeria a hub for maritime activities in the West and Central African sub region.

A recent incumbent to his position, Peterside conceded that a process of “radical restructuring would be necessary within the Agency to realise its mandate of delivery better efficiency and services.

Chairman of the Committee, Honourable Mohammed Umaru Bago challenged the DG to utilise all the resources at his disposal to restore safety in the Nigerian maritime domain and also revamp the image of the Agency which he said has been badly damaged in the last few years.

Recent statements issued by NIMASA highlight that the DG is on a mission to deliver on the benefits of the maritime sector to Nigeria and has called on stakeholders to collaborate with the Agency.

Our performance will be service based

and not metric based, the focal point of which will be to create the enabling environment to gainfully engage as many stakeholders as possible with a view to creating wealth and generating employment for the overall good of the maritime industry and the national economy, said Peterside who added that the Agency will no longer be measured on how much revenue it derives, but on how well it can stimulate the necessary growth of the sector.

Describing the maritime sector as the soul of the country’s economy , Peterside is on a drive to develop local content and to review the Cabotage Act to make it more beneficial to Nigerians.

Establishing a roadmap In mid-May the top management of NIMASA attended a retreat to draw up a roadmap for the development of the Nigerian maritime sector.

Themed Repositioning NIMASA for the Sustainable Development of the Nigerian maritime Sector, the three day retreat was expected to develop strategies that would reposition NIMASA and the maritime sector and draw a Medium Term Growth Strategy for the sector.

Peterside used the retreat to challenge the Agency’s management to move away from politics and to focus on the Agency’s core functions.

I am ready and willing, physically and spiritually, to work with you as a member of the team in order to actualise the dream of a new NIMASA that will be a pride to Nigeria and a reference point to the global shipping community, he told the workshop.

Training Academy expands its profile through acquisition

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arine training solutions provider SAMTRA (South African Maritime Training Academy) recently acquired Seatrain Consulting, which has enabled it to further extend its footprint in the management and administration of training to West African clients requiring support for its trainees undergoing maritime training in South Africa.

The recent retirement of Seatrain Consulting’s owner, Captain Simon Pearson - who managed the trainees of companies involved in the oil and gas sector for the past 16 years - has afforded SAMTRA the opportunity to acquire a 100 percent shareholding in the company.

SAMTRA’s CEO Andy MacLennan assumes responsibility as Seatrain’s CEO with Training and Development Manager Pieter Coetzer assuming responsibility for its operational management.

Captain Pearson has been appointed to the Seatrain Board to maintain the institutional knowledge and to ensure that the standards set under his ownership are continued into the future.

Seatrain’s staff recently relocated to SAMTRA’s premises to enable effective management oversight and to exploit possible economies of scale.

This development is an extension of one of SAMTRA’s core competencies as administrators and managers of cadet and rating training, which it has provided to companies in Southern and West Africa for more than 13 years.

Two more tugs completed

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wo more of Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) tugs that form part of a R1. billion contract were launched at the beginning of May in Durban at the Southern African Shipyard facilties.

In line with maritime tradition, the duty of officially naming the vessels was carried out by a Lady Sponsor, Linda Mabaso, Chair of Transnet SOC Limited.

Mabaso said the tug building contract was a concrete demonstration of the local ship building expertise that Operation Phakisa aimed to leverage as part of its focus on the Oceans Economy.

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catalyst for Transnet’s fast-tracking of investments into our ports.

South Africa’s location and the expertise demonstrated by projects like this are key to us increasing our share of the global marine manufacturing market, including ship-building and repair, rig repair and refurbishment or boat-building, she said.

Mabaso named the two tugs Qunu, in reference to the Eastern Cape home village of former President, the late Nelson Mandela and Cormorant after the aquatic bird species of the same name.

T A’s new tugs, unu and Cormorant, were launched and named at the Southern African Shipyards premises in ur an, South Africa. ady Sponsor, inda a aso, Chair of Transnet S C imited, officially named the vessels. Photo by Philip Wilson – Logico Creative Solutions.

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South African shipping rand returns to its roots The Safmarine rand will return to its roots when it relocates its head office to Cape Town, South Africa efore the end of they year. As one of the only aers roup ac uisitions to eep its rand identity, Safmarine first relocated to Antwerp in elgium and then to Copenhagen in enmar .

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ut, despite concerns at the time of the acquisition in 1 and the move to Denmark in 2012 that the Safmarine brand would finally be absorbed into Maersk Line and lose its African flavour, the brand has endured and triumphantly celebrated its 70th anniversary in Cape Town at the beginning of May. Speaking at the anniversary function, Dirk Hoffmann, described Cape Town as the spiritual home of Safmarine and alluded to the liner’s local roots.

Also addressing guests at the function, Safmarine CEO David Williams, who will relocate with the head office back to Cape Town, highlighted the growth in the company since the time of acquisition.

In the last 16 years since acquisition, we have grown five times. In the last four years we have delivered over a billion dollars to the Maersk Group. We look back with pride on what we have achieved, but our real focus is looking at we are doing going forward, he said. On relocating, Williams will also take over the position as Maersk Line’s Regional Manager for Africa (sub-Saharan).

At the function Williams highlighted the need to focus on three key points going forward. These include the line’s core capacities in facilitating trade to and from Africa and from West and Central Asia the need to acknowledge change and the continued emphasis on developing all of the Safmariners stationed around the world. We have changed the slogan to together we go places’. It is about our team, our stakeholders and the customers, he told those celebrating the 70th milestone.

We are committed to Africa. We want to continue to support the development of its emerging economies. And in doing so open markets and provide opportunities for current and new customers, says incent Clerc, Chief Commercial Officer of Maersk Line.

“Safmarine has a clear strategy and a strong outlook. And Africa is core to the Safmarine strategy. Therefore it is an obvious choice to move Safmarine’s head office to Cape Town in South Africa, he adds We have two strong brands in Africa: Safmarine and Maersk Line. In order for

them to continue to be successful, we need to strengthen the local coordination. We believe this can best happen under one leadership team based in the region, says Clerc.

Cape Town calling Prior to the anniversary celebrations, Safmarine hosted a Global Leadership Conference in the city where 31 leaders from 2 nationalities gathered to discuss the challenges ahead. Williams succinctly summarised the way forward as a renewed push for growth within the company.

I think that one of the most frequently used words over the last couple of days has been growth and that is really the aim and focus. We now have a clear growth agenda going forward, he said.

A visit to the Lawhill Maritime Centre formed part of the Leadership Conference where they launched a Global Mentorship programme that will include five Lawhill learners who will be matched to five Safmarine business leaders.

The mentees from Lawhill are all in Grade 12 and will be mentored by David Williams (Safmarine CEO), Safouane Bouchhioua

(Safmarine Ivory Coast), Thomas Theeuwes (Safmarine Greater China), Gary Jeffreys (Safmarine UK) and Hasan Faraz Javed (Safmarine Pakistan) during their final year at Lawhill and into their first year of tertiary education.

The lucky five are Thami Hoza, Saluse Tsengiwe, Gershwyn Poole, Thandeka Duma and Sushmita Nowases.

According to Debbie Owen, head of the Lawhill Maritime Centre, The mentorship programme is the first of its kind for Lawhill and aims to provide Lawhill students with the opportunity to engage with a broader Safmarine community. It will enable Lawhill students to meet (and learn from) real shipping practitioners and business leaders from around the world. Doing so will expand their knowledge of the shipping business and deepen their interest in the maritime industry.

Top A awhill mentee, Thami o a, chats to mentor avid industry at the Safmarine th anniversary function.

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A ove awhill mentees, Saluse Tsengiwe, ershwyn oole, Thande a uma and Sushmita owases with e ie wen, A rie isser and rian ngpen of awhill aritime Centre at the Safmarine anniversary function.

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MARITIME MEMORIES

By Brian Ingpen

Right: Captain Murray commanded the 3500IHP tug Sir William Hoy that had begun service in Durban in 1928 and operated there until she was withdrawn in 1979, terminating 51 years of service in the port. She was scrapped two years later. Photograph: Brian Ingpen Collection

It runs in the family The Murray family business was launched nearly four hundred kilometres from the sea in the busy railway junction town of Noupoort. It was here that Peter Murray was born 80 years ago.

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ives were changed by the outbreak of World War 2. When Murray senior enlisted for wartime military service and went to north Africa, Peter and his mother relocated to his grandparents’ home in Mossel Bay where, under the watchful eye of his grandfather, the young lad learnt the ways of the sea. At the time, despite the war, Mossel Bay was a thriving anchorage.

The time in Mossel Bay was idyllic for young Peter. His grandfather built two fishing boats, the second was named Peter David and, among the more lucrative marine products at the time was shark liver oil that he produced and exported the carcasses to west Africa. The youngster earned pocket money by line fishing.

From time spent in these boats and in sailing dinghies, Peter Murray found an affinity with the sea and, once the family moved to Rawsonville after the war, he set his mind on a sea-going career.

Thus he went to the training ship General Botha in January 1952. His earlier experience of messing around in boats provided considerable knowledge and skills that gave him an edge at the Bothie .

A move to the UK In his final year at the training ship, he needed to apply for a position as a cadet.

As local options were very limited, (Safmarine had only three ictory ships at the time and seatime aboard coasters did not carry

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full recognition) Murray looked to British companies for his cadet training.

Blue Funnel Line accepted him and in 1 5 , he and fellow Bothie-boy, Brian Greenwood, joined the company’s fine steamer Hector in Cape Town. In recognition of the company’s war effort, Blue Funnel’s cadets were known as midshipmen.

On arrival in Liverpool, Murray and Greenwood were sent to the Outward Bound School in Wales. Used to sailing and fitness training at the Bothie, and steeped in small boats from a tender age at Mossel Bay, Murray enjoyed his time at the school.

On their voyages to Australasia, the Blue Funnel ships sailed via Suez or occasionally via the Cape. In the post-war era shipping was booming as Britain, Europe and Japan still required large volumes of construction material, food, steel and general household goods in their recovery from wartime devastation.

Cargo was readily available and the Blue Funnel ships in which Murray sailed were down to their marks as they moved down the Mersey to head for the East or Australia. Similarly, their return voyages saw them fully laden with Japanese or Chinese goods; Australian grain, or minerals for a growing the British market.

One of the ships on which he sailed as a midshipman was the Liberty ship Troilus.

Bought by Blue Funnel in 1 7, she was part of the Blue Funnel fleet until 1 5

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when she was sold to Panamanian interests and renamed Green River. She was scrapped in Osaka, Japan in 1963.

Returning to his roots Murray obtained his Second Mate’s certificate in Cardiff and returned to sea, serving on several vessels, including the war-built Rhexenor; a vessel with large holds and reinforced for heavy cargoes, making her ideal to carry the types of heavylift cargoes that were available at the time.

On a trip during the Suez closure in 1 57 Anchises bunkered in Durban, igniting some homesickness in Murray, and he mulled over the possibility of returning to the country of his birth.

He went for an interview with Safmarine in Britain whose fleet had grown to seven ships. Almost immediately they flew him to Durban to join the Victory ship Constantia, the first of several Safmarine ships on which he sailed.

Having gained his Master’s certificate, Murray felt that the time was right for a move ashore. Entry level to the South African harbour service at the time was a Master’s certificate, and the Murray family moved to Durban where he was appointed mate on the harbour tug AM Campbell.

His first command came as relieving master aboard T Eriksen.

Piloting The policy of the harbour service was to move its officers wanting promotion. When Murray informed them that he wanted to train as a pilot, they promoted him to Walvis Bay where, to familiarise himself with

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Top: Captain Peter Murray with two treasured mementoes of his long service in South African har ours. n his th irthday, his five sons gave him the painting of the Port Elizabeth pilot tug William Weller, and on his 80th birthday this year, they presented him with the model of the Durban tug Sir William Hoy. Photograph: Dave Murray Bottom left: The 1945-vintage Rhexenor was typical of a class of freighters built in Britain towards the end of World War 2. Peter Murray served in her as Third Mate. Photograph: Brian Ingpen-George Young Collection Bottom right: Entering service in East London in 1955, RB Waterston was the last large coal-fired tug built for the South African Railways and Harbours Administration. She was transferred to Walvis Bay where Captain Murray commanded her prior to his appointment as pilot. Later she went to Cape Town where she operated for nearly ten years before being scrapped in the late 1980s. Photograph: Brian Ingpen

the harbour, he was first the relief master on the tug RB Waterston before he began his pilot training.

Pelican Point is the end of the north-running peninsula that ships need to round to enter the harbour. Bound for India, the laden freighter Ba le Cree grounded on the point, and called for tug assistance.

Murray got his tug underway, followed by the other Walvis Bay harbour tug O o Siedle and together, they pulled the stranded freighter into deeper water. With frequent fog, shifting sandbanks and wind, the confines of Walvis Bay harbour provided an ideal environment for him to train as a pilot and he is emphatic that piloting remains the highlight of his career.

Moving to Port Elizabeth, he had to redo much of the training to familiarise himself with the port and prevailing conditions. Although the strong wind experienced at the port presented significant challenges, he continued to enjoy the profession.

Indeed, at daybreak every Saturday, the downcoast mailship would arrive at the pilot station, followed at about 10h30 by the upcoast mailship. The Cape Town-bound vessel would sail at 17h00 on Saturday, and on Sunday, the upcoast vessel would sail at 17h00 for East London, often despite strong wind, and the port’s two tugs with a full head of steam to hold her in the wind.

On those occasions when the wind was howling, Pilot Murray would have to draw deeply from his bank of experience and, with high levels of adrenalin pumping through his system, he would call for half ahead two to get the mailship safe-

ly through the entrance. The mailship’s schedule was important.

Handling the containerships on the South Africa-Europe service also presented challenges, particularly as the port had no multi-directional tugs at the time. When the first large containership, Table Bay, entered service in 1 77, Murray was sent to Cape Town to observe the berthing operation and stayed aboard so that he could bring the vessel into Port Elizabeth on her maiden call.

The next generation Murray’s eldest son Dave, now Business Manager for Offshore Marine, Smit Amandla Marine, was frequently the helmsman when his father piloted the ship into Port Elizabeth harbour.

I was terrified that he would make a mistake, Dave Murray confided. On the other hand, perhaps Captain Murray was terrified that young Dave would put the wheel to port instead of starboard.

He was one of the few pilots on the entire coast, Dave continued, who would only use one tug on the bow. A number of masters with whom I sailed were highly complementary about the Old Man. The occasional accident off the coast also drew on the experience and seamanship skills of the Port Elizabeth pilots when damaged tankers were towed into Algoa Bay to transship their crude oil cargoes to other tankers before being towed to repair yards elsewhere.

After his time as senior pilot and more than 20 years in Port Elizabeth, Peter and

Myrtle Murray had to relocate to Richard’s Bay where Peter was appointed as Assistant Port Captain for several years before his retirement when they returned to Port Elizabeth.

Family life The Murrays had five sons, all of whom had a spell in the merchant navy or South African Navy. As Dave Murray put it, The old man transferred his salty blood to all his lads.

For his fiftieth birthday, his sons commissioned an artist to paint a really good study of the Port Elizabeth pilot tug William Weller in which their father had spent so much time during his piloting days in the port.

His eightieth birthday this year drew an even greater response from the family and needed considerable orchestrating long before the important milestone.

Before they gathered in the lounge of their parents’ home in Port Elizabeth, the sons had smuggled in a large glass case in which stood a specially-commissioned model of the tug Sir illiam Hoy, an icon of the Durban tug fleet for 51 years and on which Peter Murray had served.

Murray senior was led into the room to unveil the model. His delight and emotional response to his sons’ gift was a memorable highlight, not only of the birthday party, but also a memorable highlight of the long, interesting and successful career of an officer, a true gentleman and a greatly revered family man.

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r Kerry Sink, who has spent the past 10 years researching and promoting the idea of protecting a representative portion of South Africa’s offshore biodiversity, has been awarded a prestigious Pew fellowship in marine conservation.

Dr Sink, marine programme manager with the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), was honoured by the Pew Charitable Trust in February, alongside four

other distinguished scientists and conservationists from Costa Rica, Sri Lanka and the United States.

Pew fellows receive a grant of US 150 000 (R2.35 million) to fund a three-year project that addresses ocean conservation challenges.

Since 1996, the programme has recognised 132 marine experts in 32 countries.

By Claire Attwood

As part of the Cell C Take a Girl Child to Work Day on Thursday, 26 May 2016 Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) across the country treated female learners in grades 10 to 12 to an exciting day at the heart of SA’s maritime industry. Terminal Managers from Operations, Procurement and Engineering and Technical departments dedicated their day to mentoring some 100 employee daughters from a wide variety of schools in the port cities of Durban, Cape Town and Port Elizabeth.

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Changes at the helm of South Africa’s maritime authority

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obantu Tilayi has been appointed as the acting CEO of the South African Maritime Safety Authority following the sudden resignation of Tsietsi Mokhele in May. Mokhele, who resigned ahead of the scheduled end of his contract, confirmed that he was seeking to play a role in the private sector in the future where he sees an opportunity to help drive the initiatives of Operation Phakisa.

Tilayi has been part of the SAMSA executive team for eight years. He served as executive head responsible for shipping before being appointed as Chief Operations Officer (COO) in 2012.

During that time he was responsible for overall operations at SAMSA which included the repositioning of Maritime industry and representing SAMSA at the International Maritime Organisation (IMO).

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Celebrating a South African maritime icon

The Smit Amandla alongside at the V&A Waterfront in the Port of Cape Town welcomed guests on oard in cele ration of her successful first years at sea.

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hen the Smit Amandla entered into service 0 years ago as the John Ross, she did so as a symbol of the potential of the South African maritime capacity. Locally built and designed, and manufactured using South African steel, the super tug represented a world first as she entered into service to deliver stand-by salvage capacity along the country’s coast.

Along with the, now scrapped, Wolraad Woltemade, the Smit Amandla earned a reputation around the world as they responded to complex emergency situations.

Owners, Smit Amandla Marine, recently celebrated the vessel’s 0th milestone in the Port of Cape Town at a function that provided current and past crew with the opportunity to reminisce about the tug’s contribution to the country’s maritime legacy.

As a purpose-built tug, the .6 m vessel is capable of pulling between 150 and 165 tonnes and exceeding speeds of 1 knots.

These capabilities have helped her successfully respond to refloating efforts such as the Ikan Tanda, the Kianu Satu, the Sealand Express, the Eihatsu Maru and the Nino amongst others.

Welcoming guests to the function, Smit Amandla Marine’s managing director, Paul Maclons said I remain confident that with the dedication of the masters, officers, crew and support team of the vessel that this truly South African maritime icon will proudly fly our flag for a good many years.

It’s a sentiment that was expressed by a number of speakers at the function who emphasise the role that the Smit Amandla can still play in the maritime sector. Speaking animatedly about the history of the vessel and its crew, Dave Maine was confident in his predictions that a similar function would be held for the vessel’s 50th anniversary.

He highlighted the likes of Capt Okke Grapow, Pim Zandee and Dai Davies who were all instrumental in the launch and success of the two super tugs, the Wolraad Woltemaade and the Smit Amandla. It’s a

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1 legacy that has been noticed not only locally, but internationally.

Maine joked that when he attends International Salvage Union meetings, global colleagues first enquire about the Smit Amandla before they ask after his own health.

I think there is no doubt that these tugs are icons, but that 2,500 tonnes of steel on its own is not an icon it is the people that have run and been on it for 0 years that make it an icon, he said referring to a number of prominent chief engineers and masters who have served on board for a combined total of over 100 years.

If Operation Phakisa had been around 0 years ago, the tug would have been a poster child for it, he said once again highlighting the fact that it was a South African built tug, from South African steel, run by South Africans, maintained by South Africans and flagged under the South African flag.

But it is the success of the marine pollution prevention contract that has helped the tug write a unique piece of South African maritime history. We’ve never had a failure, says Maine, highlighting a number of the very difficult operations undertaken over the years.

And as Capt Ian Merriman points out: We have the personnel for it we have the passion for it and we’ve got the vessel for it.

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t was with sadness we learned of Capt Dai Davies’ passing shortly after the Smit Amandla function. Our condolences to his family and colleagues. We are pleased to have published an indepth interview with this maritime legend in 2005 that highlighted some of the contributions he made to the industry.

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ith offices in Cape Town, Durban, Richards Bay and Walvis Bay (Namibia), SMD Telecommunications recently opened a new office in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

Ntuthuko Kubeka, the new service manager in Port Elizabeth and his office administrator, Jenilee Klue, will be looking after the Port Elizabeth branch. Kubeka is a qualified electrical engineer who joined SMD as a junior technician and has developed his skills over number of years. He is therefore knowledgeable and experienced in the field of marine electronics.

SMD is part of a group of international companies with service and sales centres in Spain, Malta, Netherlands, Denmark, Poland, Singapore, Panama and Brazil that are all dedicated to servicing the Marine Electronics industries.

Speaking at the opening of the branch, managing director of SMD, Brian Chambers,

highlighted the company’s focus on quality and safety. We aim to have a first time fix rate of 0 . This requires a big investment in spare parts as well as training, he said adding that they have factory trained service engineers available 2 7 365.

Over the last couple of years we have also focused on sales, increasing our sales team from two to five people. We have recently participated in several new-builds as well as refits, with SMD covering a full scope of work from assisting the ship yard in design and product selection, to the supply, yard supervision, installation, commissioning and sea trials, he said.

Chambers added that the company’s focus was to foster local supply chains that delivered cost-effective products through the sister company of Marine Navigation Systems (MNS). MNS is also focused on Navy Projects, fishing industry and local project requirements.

Training opportunities develop fishing s ills

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tanding on the bridge of a vessel more than ten years ago, ivian Lackay dreamed of becoming a Skipper. The member of Sea Harvest’s sea-going crew, who grew up in Robertson in the Western Cape, joined the company in 200 .

Lackay has worked and studied his way up the ranks, becoming a Leading Deck Hand and then First Mate before qualifying as a Skipper in January this year. The biggest task of a Skipper is accepting responsibility for important decisions that need to be made on a vessel, decisions that often impact the entire crew. Sea Harvest has provided me with training and development opportunities that have made it possible for me to advance my career, says Lackay.

Sea Harvest Fleet Executive, Russell Hall, says, Investing in skills training that leads to meaningful career growth opportunities for our employees is vital.

One of Lackay’s fellow Skippers, Dirk Zandberg had a varied career before finding his true passion working at sea. The former Malmesbury Fire Chief, who owned a restaurant and pub up until 200 , also recently qualified as a Skipper. He has set his sights on becoming a High Seas Commander, the highest rank one can obtain on a vessel.

Zandberg is currently mentoring Marco Hendricks who grew up in Mitchells Plain.

Hendricks completed his Able Seaman ticket in 2006 and qualified as a Leading Deck Hand in 2007. He was recently promoted to Bosun, responsible for overseeing the entire deck of a vessel at sea. Hendricks’ next goal is to obtain his Mates ticket, where he would be responsible for assisting the Skipper, and then qualify as a Skipper like Zandberg.

More bursaries for maritime learners

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ubtech South Africa recently awarded three Grade 12 Lawhill Maritime Centre students at Simonstown School full bursaries for the 2016 year. These bursaries will cover both school fees and hostel fees, allowing these students to continue with their maritime studies.

The three bursars include Siyamtanda uyelwa from Uitenhage, Gershwyn Poole of Kensington and Phaphama Kepu from the Eastern Cape. All three are proud to have been accepted into the Lawhill Centre and aim to pursue seagoing careers.

Gershwyn Poole, Siyamtanda Vuyelwa and Phaphama Kepu

Front: Reid-Thompson, Head of Service (East Africa), Brian Chambers, Managing Director, Ntuthuko Kubeka, Service Manager (Port Elizabeth), Vincent Joynt, Head of Service (West Africa), Matthew Moon, Service Manager (Richards Bay). Back row: Martin Hulme, Technical Manager, Anesh Maniram, Service Manager (Durban), Andile Dhlomo, General Manager.

SMD Telecommunications has opened a new branch in Port Elizabeth.

Engineering skills Hall adds that the company’s commitment to skills development extended to sending four of its fleet engineers to Japan in 2015 for specialised training in servicing one of its freezer vessels, the Harvest Miriam Makeba’s two-stroke Yanmar engine, which emits less gas compared to other engines.

Lindile ingca, David Williams, Pieter raagom and Kenneth Steven, who are responsible for the maintenance and engine refit of all Sea Harvest vessels, returned to Saldanha with a greater technical understanding of the Yanmar engine.

It was Williams’ second overseas training trip in his career at Sea Harvest, having attended another training course in Germany previously.

Apprenticeships Meanwhile, carpenters in training, Eathan Ackers and Ryan Yon are part of a Sea Harvest special apprentice programme managed by the learning and development department. Jonathan Dirks is another young apprentice specialising in welding.

As one of the single largest employers in Saldanha Bay and the West Coast District, we believe in creating sustainable employment and developing as many staff as possible who have demonstrated a willingness and commitment to improving themselves and their careers. Their growth in turn has a positive impact on families and local communities on the West Coast, especially as they become role models within their communities. Of course, this commitment to training and development extends to all our staff, not only those in the Fleet division, concludes Hall.

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APPOINTMENTS: South African Oil and Gas Alliance Keith Govender, CEO of Nautic South Africa, has been appointed as the Chairperson of the Executive Committee of the South African Oil and Gas Alliance (SAOGA).

I would like to thank the Chairperson and the Board of SAOGA for having the faith and confidence in appointing me as the Chairperson to the E CO of SAOGA,’’ says Govender, who emphasises the importance for companies operating in this market to become members.

Join SAOGA in paving the way forward.

Growth is on the horizon and it makes sense to support the body that will be at the forefront in various aspects of the envisaged growth, he says.

The organisation operates as a partnership between the public and private sectors, receiving public funding to carry out a range of industry development activities and working to promote the interests of members.

Transnet National Ports Authority Pinky Zungu has again made history with her appointment as Transnet National Ports Authority’s first black female Deputy Harbour Master Nautical for the Port of Durban.

A week after obtaining her open licence in 2011, Zungu was in the spotlight when she piloted the MSC Chicago, at the time the largest container vessel to visit South Africa’s shores. She has since had seven years’ experience of guiding vessels of any size up to super tankers and mega container vessels, into the Port of Durban, pu ng her in an ideal position to take on her new role.

As Deputy Harbour Master Nautical,

one of her key responsibilities will be managing the marine pilots under her wing. Being a marine pilot is a huge responsibility. You have to study the sounding charts daily and have an accurate mental picture of the seabed. You have to know what’s underneath you including port depths, as the equipment on board the visiting ships doesn’t always work, Zungu explains.

Zungu is excited by the opportunity to bring change and to encourage and mentor newly graduated pilots. I have the technical hands-on experience to provide guidance and assurance. From this position I will also have an overall view of what is required to ensure safe operations, she added.

In her new role as Deputy Harbour Master - Nautical, in addition to managing marine pilots, other responsibilities include close liaison with the dredging department, incident management, ensuring vessels carrying Dangerous Goods comply with control measures, and ensuring the safety of the port. It includes an understanding of the international regulations and conventions and once these are adopted by SAMSA, the port complies accordingly.

Department of Environmental Affairs The Minister of Environmental Affairs, Edna Molewa welcomed the South African Cabinet’s extension of the contract of Director-General, Nosipho Ngcaba.

Cabinet has also approved the appointment of Limpho Makotoko as the new Chief Operating Officer for the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA).

The appointments were approved at the cabinet si ng on 26 April 2016. Both appointees bring a wealth of experience in the sector and the Department in terms of leadership and management.

South Africa launches its own Propeller Club

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South African branch of the International Propeller Club of the United States of America has been established.

The Club aims to promote the maritime industry, commerce and global trade through networking and social events.

The South African branch is being established by Captain John Dalby with Nicky Reynecke coming onboard as the Club President.

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alleled networking and business and employment opportunities as well as enjoying great social events, said Reynecke. There is also a newly-established Linked In group Propeller Club South Africa.

Membership is open to individuals, including students and seniors, but in addition the club will be offering corporate membership and sponsorship opportunities to key maritime businesses and organisations in the region.

Donation to Red Cross Hospital

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ea Harvest recently handed over a cheque for R300,000 to the Childrens Hospital Trust, the official fundraiser of the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital.

The funds are the result of Sea Harvest Kids for Kids initiative, which has been going for six years and donates a portion of the sales of selected Sea Harvest crumbed fish products to the Children’s Hospital Trust. This latest cheque handover brings the amount donated to the Trust to R1.6million since Sea Harvest launched the first Kids for Kids initiative in 2010.

Sea Harvest Marketing Manager, Jared Patel, says, Since 2010 Sea Harvest’s Kids for Kids Initiative has donated funds to the Trust for various projects at the Red Cross Children’s Hospital, including a Surgical Skills Training Centre, a General Medical Ward, a new Medical Imaging Complex, and a Childsafe Research and Educational Centre.

The Trust is raising funds for an upgraded and expanded paediatric intensive care unit (ICU), which is the largest ICU for children in Africa. Thanks to donations from Sea Harvest and others, the first of the four units in the ICU will be opened next month and the full ICU will be ready in October 2017.

First three black female masters for South Africa

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outh Africa’s first three black women qualified as commercial cargo vessel Master Mariners during March and April this year.

Tshepo Motloutsi, Thembela Taboshe and Pretty Molefe received their colours as Master Mariners following the passing of their exams.

Two of the new female Captains, Motloutsi and Taboshe, are currently employed by the South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA) as ship surveyors in Durban, while the third Captain Molefe is with Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA).

SAMSA’s Chief Operating Officer, Sobantu Tilayi said the ladies’ progress boded well for SAMSA’s efforts to completely transform the South African maritime sector for the benefit of all.

We are excited about these qualifications as they are not only historical, but are also in line with the country’s push towards a fully beneficial and representative South African maritime sector.

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t our annual cocktail function we highlight a company or person in the maritime industry that has helped promote the industry to the general public in a positive light.

This year s award went to Irvin Johnson (I J) who, amidst a storm of negative press levelled at the fishing industry, managed to claim some headline space that highlighted the industry as one that is worthy of investment.

The launch of the freezer factory trawler, Umlobi, and the purpose-built fresh fish trawler, Ferox, by Irivn

Johnson in November 2015 represented a massive investment in the South African fishing industry and boosted the profile of the fishing industry in local newspapers as a result. At a time when the sector seemed to garner only negative attention, the news of such an investment that also included an upgrade to the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s processing facility in Woodstock, should be noted and indeed celebrated.

In addition, the R0.5 billion investment underlies the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s commitment to the industry to job creation and to economic development.

Johann Botha (Head of Trawling at I&J) and Innocent Dwayi (Human Resources Manager at I&J) accept the award on behalf of the company.

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SAICE launches Marine Division

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he South African Institute of Civil Engineers (SAICE) officially launched their Marine Division at a function in Cape Town at the beginning of May where a new committee was introduced to the 100-strong membership.

Speaking at the launch function, initiator and chairman of the division, Keith Mackie spoke of the need for a dedicated marine branch as he outlined the specialised and often unknown contributions of marine civils sector.

Highlighting the scope for the Marine Division Mackie said From the outset, we must act as a forum to enable the interchange of ideas. In the case of Coastal Management in general and in particular, the local authorities, it behoves the Division to work towards enabling competent institutions. Institutions that can either do the work themselves or are competent to specify the work and ap-

point consulting engineers and contractors.

He added that the Division should be focused on developing the specialised skills required to work with the sea on the seashore and that coastal management and environmental departments needed to be able to effectively implement South Africa’s strong environmental legislation.

There is no question that there is a big ask ahead of us and I certainly expect very exciting times to come, he said adding that the support of a young and energetic committee would help the Division meet its goals. As Chair of the Division, Mackie is joined on the committee

by Kishan Tulsi ( ice Chair), Tim Milner (Secretary), Ryan Abery (Treasurer), Magenthran (Mags) Ruthenavelu, Isak Wust, Christoph Soltau, Anthony Sneath and Christophe Baret.

Recruits from South Durban Basin join TNPA Training Course

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or 23-year-old uyani Chiya, being a part of Transnet National Ports Authority’s Operation Phakisa technical training course is more than an opportunity to further his education it is the means through which he hopes to change both his own life and that of his mother.

The 23-year-old from Umlazi is one of 1 candidates from the South Durban Basin selected for Operation Phakisa technical training, which began in April. The training forms part of Transnet’s Market Demand Strategy (MDS) to train artisans for the shipbuilding and repair industry.

The Operation Phakisa technical training programme consists of two, three-year courses Millwright and Coded Welding run by the Transnet School of Engineering.

A third course on spray painting also forms part of the training offering that will take place later in the year.

Chiya, who has been living in South Durban while he studied towards his N and N5 certificate at Umlazi Computech, is now working towards qualifying as a Millwright.

Capacity-building Manager for the KZN region at the Transnet School of Engineering, Thandukwazi Magcaba, said the skills training programme was a great opportunity, not only for the students, but for the country as a whole.

Mark Woodson (President of the American Society of Civil Engineers), Chris Herold (President of the South African Institution of Civil Engineers), Keith Mackie (Chair of the Maritime Division of SAICE), Andrew Clothier (Chair of the Western Cape Branch of SAICE).

Programmes such as these are incredibly important. I would say any country without properly trained artisans is lagging behind, because, in some sectors, we do not have our own artisans and these individuals are imported. However, with programmes such as this in place, we can cut down on the amount of imports, harness job creation and move our unique projects forward.

Raising awareness of Foetal Alcohol Syndrome in Saldanha Bay community

in the central location in town and have sufficient consulting space to be able to assist all members of the community.

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Sea Harvest employs more than 2,500 people, of which 51 percent are women. We have partnered with the Department of Social Development to run special support groups for employees at our Saldanha Bay factory. The groups are designed to address social challenges employees face outside of work, says Harry.

aving noted that over six percent of children in the Saldanha Bay District Municipality are born with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), Sea Harvest aims to raise awareness of the syndrome which is preventable.

Mary-Lou Harry, Sea Harvest Human Resources Director says, We are deeply concerned by the recent reports of how Foetal Alcohol Syndrome is affecting the people of Saldanha Bay. As the single largest employer in Saldanha Bay we take our social responsibility seriously and are committed to scale efforts to raise

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awareness amongst our staff and indeed the wider community. Although we have been working closely with the Department of Social Development for many years, the report serves as a reminder that the challenge to eliminate this entirely preventable condition is far from over.

Since 2012, six social workers have been permanently based at the Sea Harvest Social Development Office on Saldanha Main Road. The building’s rental costs are covered by Sea Harvest. This means that social workers are permanently based

Foetal Alcohol Syndrome is 100 percent preventable and 100 percent irreversible.

We are committed to do all we can to improve the health, educational and social needs of the people of Saldanha Bay, concludes Harry.

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GREEN MARINE A whale mass-stranding training session was held in Strandfontein, Cape Town, recently. The session was jointly presented by the Department of Environmental Affairs and the City of Cape Town. See the story on p.53.

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GREEN TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE MARINE INDUSTRY

Strengthening the resilience of West Africaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coasts The World Bank and the French Ministry of Environment, Energy, and the Sea will engage in a joint effort to support West African countries in their bid to strengthen the resilience of their coastal areas to climate change. The efforts will extend to identifying opportunities for investment in the sustainable development of their blue economies.

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he collaboration responds to requests from West African countries for international support in overcoming a wide range of challenges such as coastal erosion and flooding, overexploitation of natural resources, marine and coastal pollution, rapid urbanisation, and unsustainable land use.

It builds on commitments and awareness raising activities organised by the World Bank and France during the Paris climate change conference in December to raise financing for climate resilience in coastal zones.

In 2015, the ocean was acknowledged as a critical challenge in the climate change agenda. 2016 must be the time for action, said S gol ne Royal, Minister of Environment, Energy, and the Seas at the signing of the administrative arrangement.

We know the physical impacts of climate change are felt strongly by the earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oceans, just as they are by our forests, our landscapes, and our economies. This collaboration is a significant step towards building resilience for the millions of people who rely on oceans for their livelihoods. We need to move forward urgently in a concerted and effective manner, said Laura Tuck, World Bank ice President for Sustainable Development.

The World Bank and France agree to collaborate on joint activities such as the establishment of a West Africa coastal observatory to improve the knowledge base on coastal erosion, flooding and other climate change hazards along the coastal and island nations of West Africa. This observatory will build national and regional capacity initiate policy dialogues

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IN THIS SECTION New digital platform for fish management >> Fishforlife is a national digital platform providing critical knowledge for the effective management of SA s recreational marine resources. The project was launched at the end of April. >> read more on page 52

Whale mass-stranding training session held >> Members of the South African Stranding Network attended a training session that was jointly presented by the DEA Branch Oceans and COCT at the NSRI Strandfontein beach rescue centre at the end of May. >> on page 53

African journalists support sustainable fisheries >> Over 100 journalists from African countries convened in Elmina, Ghana, in March to tackle issues in the fisheries sector.

Sculpture highlights environmental damage done by Thames rubbish >> A multi-coloured work of art made entirely from litter is highlighting the shocking levels of dumped plastic in London s river.

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and provide the knowledge and data for improved decision-making.

The observatory will be part of the West Africa Coastal Areas (WACA) programme, launched by the World Bank in 2015, which seeks to better integrate infrastructure and natural resources management in order to enhance coastal resilience to climate change. Through WACA, the World Bank, France and partners hope to assist countries to increase the resilience of coastal communities to climate hazards - in particular flooding and coastal erosion - in 30 percent of identified hotspots by 2023.

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tons of fish legally captured in est African waters each year, with a wholesale value of S . illion.

West Africa’s coastal areas host an abundance of natural resources, on land and at sea, that provide vital ecosystem services. The coastal areas are home to 31 percent of the region’s population and account for 56 percent of the region’s GDP. More than 1.6 million tons of fish are legally captured in West African waters each year, with an estimated wholesale value of US 2.5 billion.

Climate change, unsustainable infrastructure development, inadequate management of natural habitats and resources, and pollution are threatening the productivity of coastal ecosystems. Severe shoreline losses, expected to worsen as the sea level rises, are already having substantial economic impact on populations.

According to World Bank estimates from 2012, an average of 500,000 people are affected each year in this region by floods, and in Togo the coastlines retreat by an average of five metres each year.

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ishforLife is a national digital platform providing critical knowledge for the effective management of South Africa’s recreational marine resources. The project, developed in collaboration with the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), UCT, Rhodes University and WWF South Africa, was launched at the end of April.

It is widely acknowledged that fish stocks in South Africa have been drastically depleted. The future of these stocks is now a major environmental concern. FishforLife was created in response to this, and will raise awareness about the status of key angling species, the value of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and provide information regarding improvements to recreational fishing methods.

the research: CatchReport is designed to gather user-generated catch data and will allow individual anglers to log what they catch. It will also capture organised data from fishing competitions.

Fishtory will use historical records to identify long-term trends in the state of marine fish stocks and to set baselines for current stock assessments. These records, including old trophy photos, angling journals and newspaper clippings, provide valuable insights into how distributions, compositions and sizes have shifted over the years and the impacts of changing fishing practices and management. iSpot allows users to submit photographs to the Sea Fish Atlas, aimed at mapping marine fish distributions in South Africa.

Fishtory will use historical records to identify long-term trends in the state of marine fish stocks and to set baselines for current stock assessments. These records, including old trophy photos, angling journals and newspaper clippings, provide valuable insights into how distributions, compositions and sizes have shifted over the years and the impacts of changing fishing practices and management The project will also engage members of the public as active citizen scientists, providing the opportunity to contribute to the research that can secure the future of our declining stocks.

According to Colin Attwood, Associate Professor Marine Research Institute, UCT, Each time anglers go out, they generate useful data, even if no fish are caught.

While some spectacular angling results are reported in the media or captured in photographs, these are often not available as scientific data.

By participating, users can ensure that the quality of recreational fishing and diving is maintained for future generations to enjoy.

The web-based platform, www.fishforlife. co.za, is central to the FishforLife project, and is a portal to three initiatives driving

FishforLife will also give back to users. aluable information on best angling practices will be developed to promote responsible fishing, reduce fish mortalities, raise awareness of threatened fish species and the value of Marine Protected Areas.

An integrated login for all three initiatives means that users need only register once to have access to all the benefits that FishforLife and its sub-projects offer. These include an online personal catch log with an integrated map, a safe digital album of precious old photographs, detailed and real-time weather and tide charts and access to an extensive online community, including experts that will help identify unusual catches.

FishforLife is the first project of its kind to be undertaken on a national scale in South Africa.

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Whale mass-stranding training session held Mem ers of the South African Stranding etwor (SASN) attended a training session that was jointly presented y the epartment of Environmental Affairs ( EA) ranch ceans and Coasts and the City of Cape Town (C CT) at the S Strandfontein each rescue centre at the end of ay.

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uring the training session two life-like model whales were used to simulate rescue procedures for stranded cetaceans that have been adopted under a National Response Plan developed by this network and coordinated by the DEA. Species such as the false killer whale, pilot whale, sperm whale and Risso’s dolphin are among the cetaceans most commonly involved in mass stranding events worldwide. These cetaceans have in common that they are predominantly open-ocean dwellers and are highly gregarious.

Therefore their tendency to mass strand has generally been attributed to their strong social bonds and their unfamiliarity with coastal environments when they occasionally venture inshore.

The training course covered support care and stabilisation aimed at preventing live stranded animals from dying and reducing stress, as well as procedures to increase their chances of survival once they are returned to sea by helping them regain equilibrium in the water.

One of the model whales was lifted in a stretcher by a front-end loader using a specialised frame and placed onto a trailer, which was then transported to the Strandfontein pool to prepare and acclimatise it for release .

Participating in the training were NSRI volunteers from six NSRI bases, rangers of the Table Mountain National Park and personnel from Two Oceans Aquarium, SPCA, SAPS, SANCCOB, the Department of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries, DEA and COCT. There were two veterinarians present.

The DEA and the COCT intend to have annual sessions to train or retrain personnel that will collectively respond to strandings and ensure that the appropriate infrastructure, manpower and expertise are available to respond at short notice to any local mass stranding events.

Enhancing partnerships through such training initiatives between government-, non-governmental organisation-, and private sector stakeholders as well as members of the public, are vital. We are doing everything in our power to improve our sustainability best practices and to preserve our oceans and its important marine life, said the City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Energy.

Congress aims to highlight alternative green power options

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his year’s Global Maritime Environmental Congress (GMEC) puts the focus on alternative propulsion systems, digital transport control and refined measurement electronics.

The environmental conference, taking place at SMM 6 September, brings together leading experts to discuss how to improve efficiency in shipping while cutting emissions, increasing efficiency and saving resources.

The pressure on the industry is tremendous. On the one hand, the market forces shipping companies to keep the prices of their services at competitive levels,

meaning they have to increase efficiency and reduce fuel consumption.

man Arsenio A. Dominguez will be a keynote speaker at GMEC.

On the other hand, ever-stricter international standards require investments in environmental technologies. Customers also expect the companies to demonstrate sustainable management that is why Green Propulsion is a major focus at SMM.

Drawing on practical experience David Dingle, CEO of Carnival UK, will be addressing ways to achieve significant reductions in emissions to the atmosphere.

Reducing emissions The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) is the global driver in maritime environmental protection. The IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) is a leader in this effort. Chair-

The classification companies are key partners for shipping companies in technical implementation of environment protection measures. Their experts know what really works. Tom Boardley, Executive ice President of Lloyd’s Register, will explain where he sees opportunities for further technical improvements to achieve sustainable emission reductions.

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r ar rown feels priviledged to have een mentored y people li e rof ordon aclean, rof Steven iper and rof Colleen owns.

GREEN WARRIOR entored to ma e a difference r ar rown is the rogramme irector of the ature’s alley Trust, a small operating in the reater lettenerg ay area. is responsi ilities centre on the running of the and its four divisions. atalie Janse spo e to him a out his career path and plans for the future.

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rowing up Brown credits his family with exposing him to nature and nurturing his growing interest in the outdoors. I was also privileged to have had some amazing mentors in the early stages of my career people like the late Prof Gordon Maclean, the late Prof Steven Piper and Prof Colleen Downs helped shape who and where I am today, says Brown, who studied at the University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN).

Initially Brown remained in academia as a member of staff at UKZN for over 12 years.

During that period he voluntarily served on the committees and boards of several high profile regional and national NGOs. The mix of sound scientific research experience, together with a growing awareness of the need for civil society to engage and drive conservation issues, led to him to venture into a full time NPO position. This is where he found the space to use his skills and experience to produce a more rounded and impactful contribution to the sector.

Daily work schedule As Programme Director Brown’s daily work schedule remains varied. I manage all staff, students, interns and volunteers, and also oversee all research and conservation work we do. I am also responsible for fundraising, donor engagement and financial management of the NPO. In addition, I hold an honorary research position at UKZN. I am also an executive board member of BirdLife South Africa, and associate editor for the journal Ostrich.

I am privileged to be leading a small regional NPO operating at the cu ng edge of conservation in South Africa. There is no daily routine in our work, as we have projects cu ng across our four main programme areas community engagement, conservation education, ecological research and conservation in action.

Being part of a small NPO team means I

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end up doing a bit of everything, including financial management, project administration, fund-raising, field work, public engagement and even making coffee.

Essentially we try take a holistic view of our area, engaging, educating and empowering people to make informed decisions on their behaviour and lifestyle to reduce their own environmental footprint at a local level. We believe in basing decisions on locally relevant information collated from sound, relevant, local research programmes that lead to meaningful conservation outputs for our region.

Inspiration Brown says that he is truly inspired by the varied nature of his work. One day I can be ne ng fish in an estuary to determine ecosystem health another day I can be sitting in high level meetings discussing conservation management plans yet another day I can be addressing community leaders on a local programme while yet another day I can be interacting with school kids and ge ng them passionate about their environment and the creatures we share our lives with.

Through all of this I get to mentor and share my passion with a dynamic group of local and international students, staff and interns that we host equipping the emerging generation of conservationists is one of my primary passions.

Facing the challenges Brown feels that capacity for NPO’s is a growing challenge, especially securing enough funding to ensure sustainability.

Being a small team trying to achieve a lot means there are seldom enough hours in a week to get through everything on my plate, says Brown.

Brown adds that his future plans are focused on ensuring the sustainability of the work of his NPO. I am proud of some sig-

nificant national and international achievements we have reached over the last few years, he says highlighting the launch of Africa’s first six marine conservation Hope Spots, by Dr Sylvia Earle, from Mission Blue International in December 201 as one of these.

Brown describes Dr Earle as one of the world’s most famous ocean ambassadors at present. Having her here to launch the Plett Hope Spot was special indeed. It enabled us to give our region international status and prestige from a marine conservation point of view.

He also sees the September 2015 publication of BirdLife South Africa’s updated list of Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBA’s) as a considerable landmark. The IBA programme is BirdLife International’s flagship programme for land and species conservation, and is quite possibly the single biggest coordinated conservation effort globally, he explains.

Using data from our research programmes, and other citizen science data, we expanded the existing Tsitsikamma IBA to form a new larger IBA, the Tsitsikamma-Plettenberg Bay IBA. Strict international criteria needed to be met for this, and our work meant we had the data to show that our area is critical from a bird conservation point of view.

We have used both these international statuses to provide the first links between the two MPA’s in our region the Tsitsikamma MPA (Africa’s oldest MPA) and the Robberg MPA. We have big plans to make a tangible difference in the Garden Route over the next few years, says Brown, adding, I am continually inspired by my interactions with ordinary everyday South Africans who are passionate about our country’s natural resources, and my own family who share my passion for being outdoors and experiencing what nature has to offer.

Keeping our oceans alive with opportunity

cean Council promotes sustaina ility at Summit

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he international ocean business community will gather at the World Ocean Council (WOC) Sustainable Ocean Summit (SOS) 2016 in Rotterdam at the end of November to advance leadership and collaboration in developing industry-driven solutions to ocean sustainable development challenges.

Under the theme of Ocean 2030: Sustainable Development Goals and the Ocean Business Community , the SOS 2016 aims to address the 2016-2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and what they mean for the ocean business community and advance development of SDG targets and indicators being developed with and for the Ocean Business Community via the WOC during 2016.

The SOS 2016 theme recognises the SDGs adopted by the UN in 2015 to guide international economic development from 2016-2030, as well as the growth of the ocean economy and the diverse ocean business community, particularly their contribution to the food, energy, transport, communications and other needs of society.

Also recognised is the role of the ocean business community over the next 15 years, and beyond, in ensuring the health, productivity and sustainable development of the ocean, and advancing responsible ocean economic activity that contributes jobs, income, goods and services in support of societal needs.

The SOS 2016 programme potential Plenary Sessions include: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Ocean Business Community, Ocean Executive Forum: The Multi-Sector Ocean CEO Panel, Ocean 2030: Ocean Industry Projections and the Future of the Ocean Economy, European Blue Growth: EU Plans for the Ocean Economy and Sustainable Development, and the Role of the Marine Strategy Directive and Investment and Innovation for Ocean Sustainable Development.

Potential parallel sessions will include:

Improving Ocean Governance and Marine Planning, including: Law of the Sea, Marine Planning and International Waters, Marine Planning and the North Sea, Multi-use Offshore Infrastructure, The Future of Ocean Habitation: Projects and Plans for Liv-

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Conserving Marine Biodiversity and

Reducing Marine Pollution, including: Marine Protected Areas and Ocean Industries, Marine Sound, BioFouling and Invasive Species and Plastics and Marine Debris.

Improving Ocean Knowledge

Contributing to Food Security, including: fisheries, pirate fishing and aquaculture

Addressing Climate Change under the topics: Adaptation, Ocean Acidification, Reducing CO2 and Renewable Energy and the Ocean.

Advancing Maritime Industry Collaboration, including: Maritime Clusters, Maritime Accidents and Marine Engines.

Engaging Sector Developments and Opportunities, Marine Mining, Dredging, Offshore Oil and Gas and Shipping.

And finally, Creating Regional Ocean Industry Leadership: Arctic: Ocean Business Scenarios and Responsible Artic Development and Western Indian Ocean E Africa: Regional Ocean Industry Leadership.

African ournalists support sustaina le fisheries

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ver 100 journalists from African countries convened in Elmina, Ghana, in March to tackle issues in the fisheries sector. They witnessed how sustainable fishery management can reduce extreme poverty, build climate resilient communities, and foster strong economies. Together, journalists decided to harness the power of the media to support sustainable fisheries.

In Africa, fish account for more than half of the total animal protein eaten (FAO), and fish provides essential food security.

Globally, one billion people in developing countries depend on fish for their primary source of protein, yet many fisheries are over-exploited, and poor management and illegal fishing make it hard for fishers to feed their families.

Globally, the economic loss from poor fisheries governance and management amounts to 50-100 billion each year. As African fisheries continue to expand, policies are needed to guide the industry to prevent further resource degradation, rehabilitate over-exploited stocks, and manage overall fishing effort levels.

We have partnered with the African Union, USAID and SRFC to provide this fantastic opportunity to bring journalists from African countries together and provide them with a forum to brainstorm on the fisheries sector, its challenges and solutions. We expect journalists to go back

and support countriesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; efforts to make the fisheries sector the cornerstone of food security, livelihoods, social safety nets, and jobs, said Magda Lovei, Practice Manager, Environment and Natural Resources Global Practice, World Bank.

The promotion of transparency and participation in the fisheries sector is taking centre stage globally. It is obvious that without a platform or an effective network

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The promotion of transparency and participation in the fisheries sector is taking centre stage globally. It is obvious that without a platform or an effective network to disseminate relevant information to the public, these ob ectives will be difficult to achieve, even with the best will of governments,â&#x20AC;? to disseminate relevant information to the public, these objectives will be difficult to achieve, even with the best will of governments, said Marieme Talla Diagne, Acting Permanent Secretary, West Africa Sub-Regional Fisheries Commission (SRFC).

Development partners have come a long way in supporting country efforts to build sustainable fishery management and

coastal resources, and finding success in community-led fisheries. However, there is still a long way to go. Including the media in the governance of the fisheries sector is expected to bring a heightened sense of awareness and a more complete understanding of the urgency by the public.

Journalists travelled to the fishing communities of Apam, Elmina, and Moree to meet with fishers, families and local officials and experience how the 0 percent decline in fish stock has affected their lives. Communities discussed their daily struggle to make a living from the fisheries sector deeply affected by Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing and to tackle the use of chemicals and dynamite in the water, child labour, and gender issues.

Journalists came away from the meeting realising how important inland and marine fisheries are to the livelihoods of millions of Africans and as a source of low cost animal food protein, especially for the poor.

I am pleased to say that we have met our objective to develop a network of African journalists who will promote sustainable fisheries and resilient fisheries communities. We organised this workshop to assist them in producing factual, accurate, deepdive reporting on fisheries issues, said Dr Mohamed Seisay, Senior Fisheries Officer, African Union Inter-African Bureau for Animal Resources.

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Sculpture highlights environmental damage done y Thames ru ish

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multi-coloured work of art made entirely from litter is highlighting the shocking levels of dumped plastic in London’s river.

Michelle Reader’s A Bellyful of Plastic was made using rubbish collected on the Thames River. It was created after experts revealed that stunning numbers of fish living there have plastic in their gut.

The Thames river is home to

300,000 wintering irds as well as different fish species, over seals and sites of special scientific interest The work is part of the Cleaner Thames Campaign, launched by the Port of London Authority (PLA), Thames 21, Tideway and Totally Thames, which was launched in 2015 following research done by experts at Royal Holloway, University of London.

It showed that three quarters of Thames flounder, a bottom-feeding fish, had consumed plastic. More than a fifth of smelt that were studied also consumed plastic.

Reader used litter collected by the PLA on the 5-mile stretch of the tidal Thames that

it looks after and a Thames 21 foreshore clean up in Grays.

Reader said: It was both fascinating and a little disturbing to see the variety of material that collects in the water and on the foreshore. It was an interesting challenge to turn it into something visually appealing, something that would tell a story in a way that could capture people’s imagination. I wanted to make people think about what happens to their waste, by drawing them in to take a closer look.

PLA environment manager Tanya Ferry revealed that the authority collects 300 tonnes of litter and driftwood from the Thames every year, much of which is made up of plastic materials like single use plastic bottles.

Debbie Leach, Chief Executive at Thames21, a waterways charity pu ng healthy rivers back at the heart of community life, said: Plastic pollution is a very real problem in our rivers today. Because plastic doesn’t biodegrade, it is often ingested by wildlife mistaking it as food. Michelle’s thought-provoking piece reminds us how we all have a hand in reducing plastic polluting our rivers.

The Thames is home to 125 different fish species, 300,000 wintering birds, over 00 seals and nine sites of special scientific interest.

IMO environment projects win international award

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team from IMO s Marine Environment Division won the best Portfolio Solution Award in the th International Waters Conference (IWC ) organised by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) in Negombo, Sri Lanka in May. The award was given for the project with the best strategy for scaling-up investments aimed at addressing global environmental issues facing international waters, including the oceans. International waters is one of the five thematic portfolios of GEF funding, with around 0 related projects being featured at IWC and some 300 currently underway worldwide.

IMO s team presented the Glo- partnerships model, embracing two separate projects -GloBallast and GloMEEP. Glois being used to accelerate legal, policy and institutional reforms in developing countries to implement the Ballast Water Management Conventionand MARPOL Annex I while, at the same time, leveraging private sector partnerships to accelerate R D and technological inno-

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vations through forming global industry alliances and facilitating information exchange.

When the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, it set a new development agenda for the 2015 2030 period. Two SDGs (Ensure access to water and sanitation for all and Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources) are of particular relevance to the GEF s IW investments.

IMO s winning entry was selected from a large number of submissions made by GEF international water projects and the award was based on oral presentations from the final eight nominees. IMO s Jose Matheickal, on behalf of the IMO team, delivered the award-winning presentation during the conference, which was attended by over 300 participants from various UN agencies, donor agencies and member governments. This is the fourth international award won by the IMO projects team.

adopts fuel reporting rule

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hile the IMO s Marine Environment Protection Committee has not adopted a proposal to work towards greenhouse gas regulation, it approved a measure requiring ships over 5,000 gt to report fuel consumption (and therefore CO2 emissions) to their flag states in April.

The flag state will determine whether the data has been reported in accordance with the requirements, and if so, it will issue a Statement of Compliance to the ship. Flag states will be required to transfer this data to an IMO Ship Fuel Consumption Database.

The unanimous agreement to take forward a mandatory data collection system for ships’ fuel consumption is a significant step. It will provide a solid basis on which to consider, armed with information, whether further measures may be required in future to mitigate GHG emissions from shipping, Mr Lim said.

We believe that IMO Member States have agreed an acceptable compromise between governments primarily interested in data on fuel consumption and CO2 and those that wish to collect additional information, said International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) Secretary General Peter Hinchliffe.

The ICS had submitted a proposal similar to the Intended National Determined Contributions for CO2 emissions reductions in the Paris Agreement, which 170 nations negotiated at the COP21 climate talks last year and formally signed in a ceremony Friday in New York. MEPC did not adopt ICS plan for a COP21-inspired Intended IMO Determined Contribution, nor did it make other progress towards regulating greenhouse gas emissions, but ICS said that its proposal was well received by some member states and would be taken forward to the next MEPC meeting in October.

The European Community Shipowners Associations expressed support for ICS proposal. An Intended IMO Determined Contribution would make IMO Member States and the shipping industry answerable to the international community, in the same way that governments are committed to INDCs , said Patrick erhoeven, the organisation s Secretary General. A work plan must now be elaborated, which includes the methodology used to define the contribution, the reference years, the long-term objective and the intermediary steps, all according to a clear timetable.

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Escape Route Signs ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Novamarine a div of Novagroup: Tel 021 506 300 Fax 021 511 3 6 iking Life-Saving Equipment (SA) (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 51 5160 Fax 0 6 03 211

Fire Equipment Signs Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Novamarine a div of Novagroup: Tel 021 506 300 Fax 021 511 3 6 iking Life-Saving Equipment (SA) (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 51 5160 Fax 0 6 03 211

Fire-Fighting Equipment ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 J D Ship Services: Tel 021 511 1 Fax 021 511 7 10 Novamarine a div of Novagroup: Tel 021 506 300 Fax 021 511 3 6 iking Life-Saving Equipment (SA) (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 51 5160 Fax 0 6 03 211

Food Rations, Life jackets Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 Sturrock Grindrod Marine Tech: Tel 021 510 00 2 Fax 021 511 1770 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Novamarine a div of Novagroup: Tel 021 506 300 Fax 021 511 3 6 iking Life-Saving Equipment (SA) (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 51 5160 Fax 0 6 03 211

Lifeboat Builders Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00

Liferaft Service Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523

HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Novamarine a div of Novagroup: Tel 021 506 300 Fax 021 511 3 6 Sturrock Grindrod Marine Tech: Tel 021 510 00 2 Fax 021 511 1770 iking Life-Saving Equipment (SA) (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 51 5160 Fax 0 6 03 211

Rescue Craft Davits HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Novamarine a div of Novagroup: Tel 021 506 300 Fax 021 511 3 6

Safety Equipment ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 J D Ship Services: Tel 021 511 1 Fax 021 511 7 10 Marine Navigation Systems: Tel 021 511 16 0 Novamarine a div of Novagroup: Tel 021 506 300 Fax 021 511 3 6 Radio Holland: Tel 021 50 700 Fax 021 50 SMD Telecommunications: Tel 021 511 0556 Fax 021 511 2 6 Sturrock Grindrod Marine Tech: Tel 021 510 00 2 Fax 021 511 1770 Unique Hydra: Tel 021 53 375 Fax 021 53 3610 iking Life-Saving Equipment (SA) (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 51 5160 Fax 0 6 03 211

Safety Signs ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Novamarine a div of Novagroup: Tel 021 506 300 Fax 021 511 3 6 Sturrock Grindrod Marine Tech: Tel 021 510 00 2 Fax 021 511 1770 iking Life-Saving Equipment (SA) (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 51 5160 Fax 0 6 03 211

Security Cameras Radio Holland: Tel 021 50 021 50

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Anodes ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702

Auxiliary Gensets ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Barloworld Power: Dbn Tel: 031 000 0050 Cpt Tel 021 5 200

Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 Cummins South Africa (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 5 1 Fax 021 5 22 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 Raka Marine: Piet 0 2 65 1061 Gerhard 0 2 652 221 SAMD (Beele Engineering): Tel 021 7 2212 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702 Seascape Marine Services: Tel 021 511 201 Fax 021 510 0 7 Southern Power Products (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 511 0653 Fax 021 510 30

Bow Thrusters African Marine Propulsion: Tel 021 01 0 Fax 0 6 21 0206 ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 Radio Holland: Tel 021 50 700 Fax 021 50 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702

Control Cables ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050

Couplings ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Alignment with Laser: Tel 031 765 153 email david@awlaser.co.za Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702 Southern Power Products (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 511 0653 Fax 021 510 30 Sturrock Grindrod Marine Tech: Tel 021 510 00 2 Fax 021 511 1770

Diesel Generator Sets ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Barloworld Power: Dbn Tel 031 000 0050 Cpt Tel 021 5 200 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 Cummins South Africa (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 5 1 Fax 021 5 22 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Peninsula Power Products: Tel 021 511 5061 Fax 021 511 5 1 Raka Marine: Piet 0 2 65 1061 Gerhard 0 2 652 221 MTU South Africa (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 52 5760 info@MTU-online.co.za SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702 Seascape Marine Services: Tel 021 511 201 Fax 021 510 0 7 Southern Power Products (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 511 0653 Fax 021 510 30 Sturrock Grindrod Marine Tech: Tel 021 510 00 2 Fax 021 511 1770

Engines ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Barloworld Power Systems: Tel 031

Products and services 000 00 7 Fax 031 000 0051 Cummins South Africa (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 5 1 Fax 021 5 22 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 DCD Dorbyl Marine Cape Town: Tel 021 60 6000 Fax 021 7 603 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 MTU South Africa (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 52 5760 info@MTU-online.co.za Peninsula Power Products: Tel 021 511 5061 Fax 021 511 5 1 Raka Marine: Piet 0 2 65 1061 Gerhard 0 2 652 221 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702 Seascape Marine Services: Tel 021 511 201 Fax 021 510 0 7 Southern Power Products (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 511 0653 Fax 021 510 30 Sturrock Grindrod Marine Tech: Tel 021 510 00 2 Fax 021 511 1770

Engine, Gearbox & Oil Coolers ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Seascape Marine Services: Tel 021 511 201 Fax 021 510 0 7 List your companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s details here

Engine & Gearbox Controls ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Barloworld Power: Dbn Tel 031 000 050 Cpt Tel 021 5 200 Seascape Marine Services: Tel 021 511 201 Fax 021 510 0 7

Fresh Water Generators ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 Sturrock Grindrod Marine Tech: Tel 021 510 00 2 Fax 021 511 1770 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702

Fuel & Lubrication Oil Treatment ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Sturrock Grindrod Marine Tech: Tel 021 510 00 2 Fax 021 511 1770

Gearbox Sales ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Barloworld Power Systems: Tel 031 000 00 7 Fax 031 000 0051 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 Peninsula Power Products: Tel 021 511 5061 Fax 021 511 5 1 Seascape Marine Services: Tel 021 511 201 Fax 021 510 0 7

Gearbox Spares, Repairs ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050

Barloworld Power Systems: Tel 031 000 00 7 Fax 031 000 0051 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 DCD Dorbyl Marine Cape Town: Tel 021 60 6000 Fax 021 7 603 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 Seascape Marine Services: Tel 021 511 201 Fax 021 510 0 7 List your companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s details here

General Engineering Repairs ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 Dorbyl Marine Cape Town: Tel 021 60 6000 Fax 021 7 603 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 Peninsula Power Products: Tel 021 511 5061 Fax 021 511 5 1 SAMD (Beele Engineering): Tel 021 7 2212 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702 Seascape Marine Services: Tel 021 511 201 Fax 021 510 0 7

Generators ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Barloworld Power: Dbn Tel 031 000 0050 Cpt Tel 021 5 200 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 J D Ship Services: Tel 021 511 1 Fax 021 511 7 10 MTU South Africa (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 52 5760 info@MTU-online.co.za Raka Marine: Piet 0 2 65 1061 Gerhard 0 2 652 221 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702 Seascape Marine Services: Tel 021 511 201 Fax 021 510 0 7 Sturrock Grindrod Marine Tech: Tel 021 510 00 2 Fax 021 511 1770 S ITZER Salvage Africa : Tel 021 0 6710 Fax 021 0 613

Governors ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050

Nozzles ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00

Oil Coolers ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Seascape Marine Services: Tel 021 511 201 Fax 021 510 0 7

Oily Water Generators Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523

HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Sturrock Grindrod Marine Tech: Tel 021 510 00 2 Fax 021 511 1770

Pitch Propeller Repairs African Marine Propulsion: Tel 01 0 Fax 0 6 21 0206 ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 021 527 7050 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 0 6 5 0 702

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Pneumatic Engine Control Repairs ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702

Propeller Repairs, Systems African Marine Propulsion: Tel 021 01 0 Fax 0 6 21 0206 Alignment with Laser: Tel 031 765 153 email david@awlaser.co.za ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 DCD Dorbyl Marine Cape Town: Tel 021 60 6000 Fax 021 7 603 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702

Propellers African Marine Propulsion: Tel 021 01 0 Fax 0 6 21 0206 Alignment with Laser: Tel 031 765 153 email david@awlaser.co.za ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702 Southern Power Products (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 511 0653 Fax 021 510 30

Propulsion Systems African Marine Propulsion: Tel 021 01 0 Fax 0 6 21 0206 Alignment with Laser: Tel 031 765 153 email david@awlaser.co.za Barloworld Power: Dbn Tel 031 000 0050 Cpt Tel 021 5 200 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 Cummins South Africa (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 5 1 Fax 021 5 22 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Raka Marine: Piet 0 2 65 1061 Gerhard 0 2 652 221 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702 Seascape Marine Services: Tel 021 511 201 Fax 021 510 0 7 Southern Power Products (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 511 0653 Fax 021 510 30 Sturrock Grindrod Marine Tech: Tel 021 510 00 2 Fax 021 511 1770

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Spare Parts African Marine Propulsion: Tel 021 01 0 Fax 0 6 21 0206 ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Barloworld Power: Dbn Tel 031 000 0050 Cpt Tel 02 5 200 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Mares Shipping GmbH: Tel 0 37 7 0 Fax 0 37 7 6 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702 Seascape Marine Services: Tel 021 511 201 Fax 021 510 0 7

Steerable Thrusters African Marine Propulsion: Tel 01 0 Fax 0 6 21 0206 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 021 511 00 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 0 6 5 0 702

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Turbochargers ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 DCD Marine Cape Town: Tel 021 60 6000 Fax 021 7 603 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702 Seascape Marine Services: Tel 021 511 201 Fax 021 510 0 7

Valves ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 DCD Dorbyl Marine Cape Town: Tel 021 60 6000 Fax 021 7 603 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702

Water Jets ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Seascape Marine Services: Tel 021 511 201 Fax 021 510 0 7 Southern Power Products (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 511 0653 Fax 021 510 30 List your companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s details here

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Products and services

510 3532 Fax 021 510 3530 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Scaw SA (Pty) Ltd: Tel Cpt 021 50 1500 Dbn 031 50 7 00

Filletting Machines

Seabed Surveys

SAMD (Beele Engineering): Tel 021 7 2212

African Maritime Services: Tel 021 510 3532 Fax 021 510 3530 Underwater Surveys: Tel 021 70 6000 Fax 021 7 5302

Spurs Net Cutters

523 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00

Fishmeal Plants Freezers ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00

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Gutting Machines

Trawls

HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00

Scaw SA (Pty) Ltd: Tel Cpt 021 50 1500 Dbn 031 50 7 00

Trawl Bobbins African Maritime Services: Tel 021 510 3532 Fax 021 510 3530 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00

Trawl Doors African Maritime Services: Tel 021 510 3532 Fax 021 510 3530 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00

Trawl Floats African Maritime Services: Tel 021 510 3532 Fax 021 510 3530 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00

Trawl Repairs African Maritime Services: Tel 021 510 3532 Fax 021 510 3530 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00

Trawl Winches, Sales & Repairs HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00

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Cartons Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523

Ice Packs / Chill Wrap Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523

S PR SS N U PM N Blast Freezers ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00

Cannery Equipment HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 List your companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s details here

Chillers ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 List your companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s details here

Cutting Machines Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552

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Ice Makers ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00

Ozone Eqauipmentg HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00

RSW Plants SAMD (Beele Engineering): Tel 021 7 2212

Scales Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00

NA A N MMU N A N AND R N U PM N S R N Antenna Instruments C C Technologies: Tel 021 705 27 1 Fax 021 705 27 1 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Marine Navigation Systems: Tel 021 511 16 0 Marine Radio Acoustic Devices: Tel 021 55 003 Fax 021 55 2752 Radio Holland: Tel 021 50 700 Fax 021 50 SMD Telecommunications: Tel 021 511 0556 Fax 021 511 2 6 Unique Hydra: Tel 021 53 375 Fax 021 53 3610

Automatic Steering ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Marine Navigation Systems: Tel 021 511 16 0 Marine Radio Acoustic Devices: Tel 021 55 003 Fax 021 55 2752 Radio Holland: Tel 021 50 700 Fax 021 50 SMD Telecommunications: Tel 021 511 0556 Fax 021 511 2 6 Unique Hydra: Tel 021 53 375 Fax 021 53 3610

Autotrawl Systems HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax

021 511 00 Marine Radio Acoustic Devices: Tel 021 55 003 Fax 021 55 2752 Radio Holland: Tel 021 50 700 Fax 021 50

Compasses ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 C C Technologies: Tel 021 705 27 1 Fax 021 705 27 1 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Marine Navigation Systems: Tel 021 511 16 0 Marine Radio Acoustic Devices: Tel 021 55 003 Fax 021 55 2752 Novamarine a div of Novagroup: Tel 021 506 300 Fax 021 511 3 6 Radio Holland: Tel 021 50 700 Fax 021 50 SMD Telecommunications: Tel 021 511 0556 Fax 021 511 2 6 Underwater Surveys: Tel 021 70 6000 Fax 021 7 5302 Unique Hydra: Tel 021 53 375 Fax 021 53 3610

Computer Systems & Equipment ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 C C Technologies: Tel 021 705 27 1 Fax 021 705 27 1 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Marine Navigation Systems: Tel 021 511 16 0 Marine Radio Acoustic Devices: Tel 021 55 003 Fax 021 55 2752 Radio Holland: Tel 021 50 700 Fax 021 50 SMD Telecommunications: Tel 021 511 0556 Fax 021 511 2 6 Underwater Surveys: Tel 021 70 6000 Fax 021 7 5302 Unique Hydra: Tel 021 53 375 Fax 021 53 3610 List your companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s details here

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Electronic Equipment ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 C C Technologies: Tel 021 705 27 1 Fax 021 705 27 1 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 J D Ship Services: Tel 021 511 1 Fax 021 511 7 10

Marine Navigation Systems: Tel 021 511 16 0 Marine Radio Acoustic Devices: Tel 021 55 003 Fax 021 55 2752 Radio Holland: Tel 021 50 700 Fax 021 50 SMD Telecommunications: Tel 021 511 0556 Fax 021 511 2 6 Underwater Surveys: Tel 021 70 6000 Fax 021 7 5302 Unique Hydra: Tel 021 53 375 Fax 021 53 3610

Electronic Surveillance HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Marine Data Solutions: Tel 021 3 6 517 Fax 021 3 6 51 Marine Navigation Systems: Tel 021 511 16 0 Marine Radio Acoustic Devices: Tel 021 55 003 Fax 021 55 2752 Radio Holland: Tel 021 50 700 Fax 021 50 SMD Telecommunications: Tel 021 511 0556 Fax 021 511 2 6 Unique Hydra: Tel 021 53 375 Fax 021 53 3610

Fish Finding Equipment ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Marine Navigation Systems: Tel 021 511 16 0 Marine Radio Acoustic Devices: Tel 021 55 003 Fax 021 55 2752 Radio Holland: Tel 021 50 700 Fax 021 50 SMD Telecommunications: Tel 021 511 0556 Fax 021 511 2 6

GMDSS Stations ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Marine Data Solutions: Tel 021 3 6 517 Fax 021 3 6 51 Marine Navigation Systems: Tel 021 511 16 0 Radio Holland: Tel 021 50 700 Fax 021 50 SMD Telecommunications: Tel 021 511 0556 Fax 021 511 2 6 Unique Hydra: Tel 021 53 375 Fax 021 53 3610

Gyros ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 C C Technologies: Tel 021 705 27 1 Fax 021 705 27 1 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Marine Navigation Systems: Tel 021 511 16 0 Radio Holland: Tel 021 50 700 Fax 021 50 SMD Telecommunications: Tel 021 511 0556 Fax 021 511 2 6 Unique Hydra: Tel 021 53 375 Fax 021 53 3610

Maritime Communication Equipment ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Marine Data Solutions: Tel 021 3 6 517 Fax 021 3 6 51 Marine Navigation Systems: Tel 021 511 16 0 Marine Radio Acoustic Devices: Tel

Products and services 021 55 003 Fax 021 55 2752 Novamarine a div of Novagroup: Tel 021 506 300 Fax 021 511 3 6 Radio Holland: Tel 021 50 700 Fax 021 50 SMD Telecommunications: Tel 021 511 0556 Fax 021 511 2 6 Unique Hydra: Tel 021 53 375 Fax 021 53 3610

Navigation Equipment ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 C C Technologies: Tel 021 705 27 1 Fax 021 705 27 1 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Marine Data Solutions: Tel 021 3 6 517 Fax 021 3 6 51 Marine Navigation Systems: Tel 021 511 16 0 Marine Radio Acoustic Devices: Tel 021 55 003 Fax 021 55 2752 Radio Holland: Tel 021 50 700 Fax 021 50 SMD Telecommunications: Tel 021 511 0556 Fax 021 511 2 6 Underwater Surveys: Tel 021 70 6000 Fax 021 7 5302 Unique Hydra: Tel 021 53 375 Fax 021 53 3610 iking Life-Saving Equipment (SA) (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 51 5160 Fax 0 6 03 211

Navigation Light Fittings and Spare Globes ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 iking Life-Saving Equipment (SA) (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 51 5160 Fax 0 6 03 211

Precise DGPS Positioning C C Technologies: Tel 021 705 27 1 Fax 021 705 27 1 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Marine Data Solutions: Tel 021 3 6 517 Fax 021 3 6 51 Marine Navigation Systems: Tel 021 511 16 0 Marine Radio Acoustic Devices: Tel 021 55 003 Fax 021 55 2752 Radio Holland: Tel 021 50 700 Fax 021 50 SMD Telecommunications: Tel 021 511 0556 Fax 021 511 2 6 Underwater Surveys: Tel 021 70 6000 Fax 021 7 5302 Unique Hydra: Tel 021 53 375 Fax 021 53 3610

Radar Sales, Repairs ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Marine Data Solutions: Tel 021 3 6 517 Fax 021 3 6 51 Marine Navigation Systems: Tel 021 511 16 0 Marine Radio Acoustic Devices: Tel 021 55 003 Fax 021 55 2752 Radio Holland: Tel 021 50 700 Fax 021 50 SMD Telecommunications: Tel 021 511 0556 Fax 021 511 2 6 Unique Hydra: Tel 021 53 375 Fax 021 53 3610 List your companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s details here

Radio Remote Control

Weather & Receivers

Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00

ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Marine Navigation Systems: Tel 021 511 16 0 Marine Radio Acoustic Devices: Tel 021 55 003 Fax 021 55 2752 Radio Holland: Tel 021 50 700 Fax 021 50 SMD Telecommunications: Tel 021 511 0556 Fax 021 511 2 6 Unique Hydra: Tel 021 53 375 Fax 021 53 3610 List your companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s details here

Radio Sales, Repairs ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 C C Technologies: Tel 021 705 27 1 Fax 021 705 27 1 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Marine Data Solutions: Tel 021 3 6 517 Fax 021 3 6 51 Marine Navigation Systems: Tel 021 511 16 0 Marine Radio Acoustic Devices: Tel 021 55 003 Fax 021 55 2752 Radio Holland: Tel 021 50 700 Fax 021 50 SMD Telecommunications: Tel 021 511 0556 Fax 021 511 2 6 Satellite Phones and Email Unique Hydra: Tel 021 53 375 Fax 021 53 3610

Satelite Phones & Email ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Marine Navigation Systems: Tel 021 511 16 0 Radio Holland: Tel 021 50 700 Fax 021 50 SMD Telecommunications: Tel 021 511 0556 Fax 021 511 2 6 Unique Hydra: Tel 021 53 375 Fax 021 53 3610

Smoke & Fire Detector Systems ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig Internationaljmhn Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Marine Navigation Systems: Tel 021 511 16 0 Novamarine a div of Novagroup: Tel 021 506 300 Fax 021 511 3 6 Radio Holland: Tel 021 50 700 Fax 021 50 SMD Telecommunications: Tel 021 511 0556 Fax 021 511 2 6 Unique Hydra: Tel 021 53 375 Fax 021 53 3610

Telecommunications ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Marine Data Solutions: Tel 021 3 6 517 Fax 021 3 6 51 Marine Navigation Systems: Tel 021 511 16 0 Marine Radio Acoustic Devices: Tel 021 55 003 Fax 021 55 2752 Radio Holland: Tel 021 50 700 Fax 021 50 SMD Telecommunications: Tel 021 511 0556 Fax 021 511 2 6 Unique Hydra: Tel 021 53 375 Fax 021 53 3610 List your companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s details here

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Acoustic Surveys C C Technologies: Tel 021 705 27 1 Fax 021 705 27 1 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Marine Radio Acoustic Devices: Tel 021 55 003 Fax 021 55 2752 Radio Holland: Tel 021 50 700 Fax 021 50 Subtech (Pty) Ltd: Tel 031 206 2073 Fax 031 205 7772 Underwater Surveys: Tel 021 70 6000 Fax 021 7 5302

Aluminium Technical Information HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Hulamin (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 507 100 Fax 021 53 2 6

Attorneys Maritime Law Bowman Gilfillan: Tel 021 0 7 11 Fax 021 2 16 elden Pike Nichols Inc: Tel 031 265 0651 Fax 0 6 60 631

Bulk Terminals Smit Amandla Marine: Tel 021 507 5777 Fax 021 507 5 5

Classification Societies ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Marine Navigation Systems: Tel 021 511 16 0 SMD Telecommunications: Tel 021 511 0556 Fax 021 511 2 6

Consultancy & Training African Maritime Services: Tel 021 510 3532 Fax 021 510 3530 Allweld Solutions: Tel 021 510 1 2 Fax 021 510 0 2 ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 C C Technologies: Tel 021 705 27 1 Fax 021 705 27 1 Marine Navigation Systems: Tel 021 511 16 0 Marine Radio Acoustic Devices: Tel 021 55 003 Fax 021 55 2752 SMD Telecommunications: Tel 021 511 0556 Fax 021 511 2 6 TETA: Tel 021 531 306 Fax 021 5313063 Unique Hydra: Tel 021 53 375 Fax 021 53 3610

Consultants African Marine Propulsion: Tel 021 01 0 Fax 0 6 21 0206 African Maritime Services: Tel 021 510 3532 Fax 021 510 3530 ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050

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Offshore Maritime Services: Tel 021 25 3372 Fax 021 25 337 Smit Amandla Marine: Tel 021 507 5777 Fax 021 507 5 5 Subtech (Pty) Ltd: Tel 031 206 2073 Fax 031 205 7772 Underwater Surveys: Tel 021 70 6000 Fax 021 7 5302

Consulting Engineers ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 List your companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s details here

Crew Transport Services Servest Marine Services: Tel 021 3500 Fax 021 7 0 5 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00

Equipment Selection & Procurement African Marine Propulsion: Tel 021 01 0 Fax 0 6 21 0206 African Maritime Services: Tel 021 510 3532 Fax 021 510 3530 ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 C C Technologies: Tel 021 705 27 1 Fax 021 705 27 1 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 Grindrod Marine Services: Tel 021 511 550 Fax 021 511 1770: Dbn: Tel 031 27 700 Fax 031 27 6 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Radio Holland: Tel 021 50 700 Fax 021 50 Subtech (Pty) Ltd: Tel 031 206 2073 Fax 031 205 7772 Underwater Surveys: Tel 021 70 6000 Fax 021 7 5302 Unique Hydra: Tel 021 53 375 Fax 021 53 3610

Ferry Services ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Smit Amandla Marine: Tel 021 507 5777 Fax 021 507 5 5

Fisheries Research Marine Radio Acoustic Devices: Tel 021 55 003 Fax 021 55 2752 Smit Amandla Marine: Tel 021 507 5777 Fax 021 507 5 5

Harbour, Ocean Towage S ITZER Salvage Africa: Tel 021 0 6710 Fax 021 0 613 Servest Marine Services: Tel 021 3500 Fax 021 7 0 5

Heavy Lift ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 Smit Amandla Marine: Tel 021 507 5777 Fax 021 507 5 5 S ITZER Salvage Africa: Tel 021 0 6710 Fax 021 0 613

Inspection & Testing Services ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Subtech (Pty) Ltd: Tel 031 206 2073 Fax 031 205 7772 Unique Hydra: Tel 021 53 375 Fax 021 53 3610

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Launch Services ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Servest Marine Services: Tel 021 3500 Fax 021 7 0 5 Offshore Maritime Services: Tel 021 25 3372 Fax 021 25 337

Logistics ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 Grindrod Marine Services: Tel 021 511 550 Fax 021 511 1770: Dbn: Tel 031 27 700 Fax 031 27 6 J D Ship Services: Tel 021 511 1 Fax 021 511 7 10

Marine Surveyors ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Offshore Maritime Services: Tel 021 25 3372 Fax 021 25 337

Maritime Training HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Marine Radio Acoustic Devices: Tel 021 55 003 Fax 021 55 2752 Marine Solutions (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 511 0 3 Fax 021 511 0 5 Radio Holland: Tel 021 50 700 Fax 021 50 Sea Safety Training Centre: Tel 022 7 2 12 7 Fax 022 7 2 1365 Unicorn Training School: Tel 031 27 770 Fax 031 557 Unique Hydra: Tel 021 53 375 Fax 021 53 3610 List your companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s details here

Naval Architects ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050

Net Monitoring Radio Holland: Tel 021 50 700 Fax 021 50 Marine Radio Acoustic Devices: Tel 021 55 003 Fax 021 55 2752

Onsite Machining ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702

P & I Club Representatives Bowman Gilfillan: Tel 021 Fax 021 2 16

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Personnel Agency DCD Dorbyl Marine Cape Town: Tel 021 60 6000 Fax 021 7 603 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Smit Amandla Marine: Tel 021 507 5777 Fax 021 507 5 5 Subtech (Pty) Ltd: Tel 031 206 2073 Fax 031 205 7772

Project Management ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Marine Radio Acoustic Devices: Tel 021 55 003 Fax 021 55 2752 Radio Holland: Tel 021 50 700 Fax 021 50

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SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702 Subtech (Pty) Ltd: Tel 031 206 2073 Fax 031 205 7772 Underwater Surveys: Tel 021 70 6000 Fax 021 7 5302 List your companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s details here

Salvors Smit Amandla Marine: Tel 021 507 5777 Fax 021 507 5 5 Subtech (Pty) Ltd: Tel 031 206 2073 Fax 031 205 7772 S ITZER Salvage Africa: Tel 021 0 6710 Fax 021 0 613

Seabed Surveys C C Technologies: Tel 021 705 27 1 Fax 021 705 27 1 Marine Radio Acoustic Devices: Tel 021 55 003 Fax 021 55 2752 Radio Holland: Tel 021 50 700 Fax 021 50 Smit Marine: Tel 021 507 5777 Fax 021 507 5 5 Subtech (Pty) Ltd: Tel 031 206 2073 Fax 031 205 7772 Underwater Surveys: Tel 021 70 6000 Fax 021 7 5302

Ship Management ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 021 527 7050 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 021 511 00 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 0 6 5 0 702 Smit Marine: Tel 021 507 5777 021 507 5 5

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Ship Registration ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050

Spares Procurement African Marine Propulsion: Tel 021 01 0 Fax 0 6 21 0206 ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Grindrod Marine Services: Tel 021 511 550 Fax 021 511 1770: Dbn: Tel 031 27 700 Fax 031 27 6 Seascape Marine Services: Tel 021 511 201 Fax 021 510 0 7

STCW 95Training Unicorn Training School: Tel 031 27 770 Fax 031 557

Superintendent (Marine) ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 List your companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s details here

Surveyors, Hull, Machinery ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Underwater Surveys: Tel 021 70 6000 Fax 021 7 5302

Tailshaft Surveys ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 DCD Dorbyl Marine Cape Town: Tel 021 60 6000 Fax 021 7 603 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00

Technical Documents ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050

Towage Servest Marine Services: Tel 021 3500 Fax 021 7 0 5 Offshore Maritime Services: Tel 021 25 3372 Fax 021 25 337 Smit Amandla Marine: Tel 021 507 5777 Fax 021 507 5 5 S ITZER Salvage Africa: Tel 021 0 6710 Fax 021 0 613

Vessel Purchase/Sales ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523

Vessel Management, Crew supplies, Maintenance Planning ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Radio Holland: Tel 021 50 700 Fax 021 50 Smit Amandla Marine: Tel 021 507 5777 Fax 021 507 5 5

PUMPS Ballast Water Systems African Marine Propulsion: Tel 021 01 0 Fax 0 6 21 0206 Radio Holland: Tel 021 50 700 Fax 021 50

Bilge Pumps ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702

Fish Pumps & Hoses ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00

Fresh & Sea Water Pumps ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702

Marine Pump Sales ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00

Pumping Services ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523

Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702 Smit Amandla Marine: Tel 021 507 5777 Fax 021 507 5 5 Subtech (Pty) Ltd: Tel 031 206 2073 Fax 031 205 7772 S ITZER Salvage Africa: Tel 021 0 6710 Fax 021 0 613

Pumps ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Alignment with Laser: Tel 031 765 153 email david@awlaser.co.za Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702 Subtech (Pty) Ltd: Tel 031 206 2073 Fax 031 205 7772

Pump Sales & Service ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Hytec Cape: Tel 021 551 7 7 Fax 021 551 2575 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702 Subtech (Pty) Ltd: Tel 031 206 2073 Fax 031 205 7772 0 36

Spare Parts ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702 Sturrock Grindrod Marine Tech: Tel 021 510 00 2 Fax 021 511 1770

S P R PA R MA R N MA N NAN N N RN S R S UP M N Anti fouling systems ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702 Sturrock Grindrod Marine Tech: Tel 021 510 00 2 Fax 021 511 1770 List your companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s details here

Products and services Battery Charges & Inverters ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Radio Holland: Tel 021 50 700 Fax 021 50 Novamarine a div of Novagroup: Tel 021 506 300 Fax 021 511 3 6 Radio Holland: Tel 021 50 700 Fax 021 50 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702 Unique Hydra: Tel 021 53 375 Fax 021 53 3610

Battery Management ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Radio Holland: Tel 021 50 700 Fax 021 50 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702 Sturrock Grindrod Marine Tech: Tel 021 510 00 2 Fax 021 511 1770 Unique Hydra: Tel 021 53 375 Fax 021 53 3610

Boat Builders ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 DCD Dorbyl Marine Cape Town: Tel 021 60 6000 Fax 021 7 603 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Hulamin (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 507 100 Fax 021 53 2 6 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702

Boiler Cleaning ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 DCD Marine Cape Town: Tel 021 60 6000 Fax 021 7 603 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 EBH South Africa: Tel 031 205 63 1 Fax 031 206 0252 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702

Boiler Repairs ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 DCD Dorbyl Marine Cape Town: Tel 021 60 6000 Fax 021 7 603 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 EBH South Africa: Tel 031 205 63 1 Fax 031 206 0252 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702

Cathodic Protection ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 EBH South Africa: Tel 031 205 63 1 Fax 031 206 0252 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Radio Holland: Tel 021 50 700 Fax 021 50

SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702 Sturrock Grindrod Marine Tech: Tel 021 510 00 2 Fax 021 511 1770 Subtech (Pty) Ltd: Tel 031 206 2073 Fax 031 205 7772 Unique Hydra: Tel 021 53 375 Fax 021 53 3610

Cleaning ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 DCD Dorbyl Marine Cape Town: Tel 021 60 6000 Fax 021 7 603 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 EBH South Africa: Tel 031 205 63 1 Fax 031 206 0252 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 J D Ship Services: Tel 021 511 1 Fax 021 511 7 10 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702 Subtech (Pty) Ltd: Tel 031 206 2073 Fax 031 205 7772

Cold Metal Repairs ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 DCD Dorbyl Marine Cape Town: Tel 021 60 6000 Fax 021 7 603 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702

Corrosion Prevention ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702 Sturrock Grindrod Marine Tech: Tel 021 510 00 2 Fax 021 511 1770 Subtech (Pty) Ltd: Tel 031 206 2073 Fax 031 205 7772

Cutless Bearings African Marine Propulsion: Tel 021 01 0 Fax 0 6 21 0206 ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 EBH South Africa: Tel 031 205 63 1 Fax 031 206 0252 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702 Sturrock Grindrod Marine Tech: Tel 021 510 00 2 Fax 021 511 1770

Diving Services ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 EBH South Africa: Tel 031 205 63 1 Fax 031 206 0252 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702 Smit Amandla Marine: Tel 021 507 5777 Fax 021 507 5 5 Subtech (Pty) Ltd: Tel 031 206 2073 Fax 031 205 7772

S ITZER Salvage Africa: Tel 021 0 6710 Fax 021 0 613

Drydocking ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 DCD Dorbyl Marine Cape Town: Tel 021 60 6000 Fax 021 7 603 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 EBH South Africa: Tel 031 205 63 1 Fax 031 206 0252 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702

Electrical & Mechanical Repairs ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 DCD Dorbyl Marine Cape Town: Tel 021 60 6000 Fax 021 7 603 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 EBH South Africa: Tel 031 205 63 1 Fax 031 206 0252 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Radio Holland: Tel 021 50 700 Fax 021 50 SAMD (Beele Engineering): Tel 021 7 2212 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702

Electrical Cable Support Systems ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 DCD Marine Cape Town: Tel 021 60 6000 Fax 021 7 603 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Radio Holland: Tel 021 50 700 Fax 021 50 SAMD (Beele Engineering): Tel 021 7 2212

Electrical Installations ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 DCD Marine Cape Town: Tel 021 60 6000 Fax 021 7 603 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 EBH South Africa: Tel 031 205 63 1 Fax 031 206 0252 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Radio Holland: Tel 021 50 700 Fax 021 50 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702

Electrical Motor Repairs ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Alignment with Laser: Tel 031 765 153 email david@awlaser.co.za Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 EBH South Africa: Tel 031 205 63 1 Fax 031 206 0252 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702

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Gritblasting ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 DCD Dorbyl Marine Cape Town: Tel 021 60 6000 Fax 021 7 603 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 EBH South Africa: Tel 031 205 63 1 Fax 031 206 0252 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702

Gritblasting Equipment ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702

HVAC Systems E.R.A.S.E.: Tel 021 6 317

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High (Ultra) Pressure Water Jetting ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050

Hold Tank Cleaning ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 EBH South Africa: Tel 031 205 63 1 Fax 031 206 0252

Hull Blasting & Painting ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 EBH South Africa: Tel 031 205 63 1 Fax 031 206 0252

Hull Cleaning ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 EBH South Africa: Tel 031 205 63 1 Fax 031 206 0252 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Subtech (Pty) Ltd: Tel 031 206 2073 Fax 031 205 7772

Hydraulic Systems & Equipment ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 EBH South Africa: Tel 031 205 63 1 Fax 031 206 0252 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 SAMD (Beele Engineering): Tel 021 7 2212

Explosion Proof Equipment

Hydroblasting

ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty)

Insulation

ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax

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Marine Airconditioning

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ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Alignment with Laser: Tel 031 765 153 email david@awlaser.co.za Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 EBH South Africa: Tel 031 205 63 1 Fax 031 206 0252 E.R.A.S.E.: Tel 021 55 Fax 021 6 317 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00

ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 EBH South Africa: Tel 031 205 63 1 Fax 031 206 0252 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00

Marine Coatings ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 EBH South Africa: Tel 031 205 63 1 Fax 031 206 0252 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 SAMD (Beele Engineering): Tel 021 7 2212

Marine UPS Inverters ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050

Pipe Fittings: Pipes ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 EBH South Africa: Tel 031 205 63 1 Fax 031 206 0252 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 SAMD (Beele Engineering): Tel 021 7 2212

Refrigeration Service & Repairs ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 EBH South Africa: Tel 031 205 63 1 Fax 031 206 0252

ROV Services Marine Solutions (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 511 0 3 Fax 021 511 0 5 List your companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s details here

Rudder Repairs/Surveys ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 EBH South Africa: Tel 031 205 63 1 Fax 031 206 0252

Ship Conversions

Steering Gear, Repairs EBH South Africa: Tel 031 205 63 1 Fax 031 206 0252

Stern Bearings African Marine Propulsion: Tel 021 01 0 Fax 0 6 21 0206 ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 EBH South Africa: Tel 031 205 63 1 Fax 031 206 0252 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00

Sterngear ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 EBH South Africa: Tel 031 205 63 1 Fax 031 206 0252

Stud Welding ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00

Subsea Electronic Engineerimg Marine Solutions (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 511 0 3 Fax 021 511 0 5

Tank Cleaning/Sludge Removal & Disposal ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 EBH South Africa: Tel 031 205 63 1 Fax 031 206 0252

Tank Blasting & Coating ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 EBH South Africa: Tel 031 205 63 1 Fax 031 206 0252 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00

Thruster Repairs

HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00

African Marine Propulsion: Tel 021 01 0 Fax 0 6 21 0206 ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 EBH South Africa: Tel 031 205 63 1 Fax 031 206 0252 Unique Hydra: Tel 021 53 375 Fax 021 53 3610

Ship Painting

Transformers

ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 EBH South Africa: Tel 031 205 63 1 Fax 031 206 0252

Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00

ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 EBH South Africa: Tel 031 205 63 1 Fax 031 206 0252

Ship Equipment Repairs

Ship Repairs & Maintenance

Ultrasonic Cleaning

ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 EBH South Africa: Tel 031 205 63 1 Fax 031 206 0252 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax

ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 EBH South Africa: Tel 031 205 63 1 Fax 031 206 0252 Grindrod Marine Services: Tel 021

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Underwater Welding Repairs ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702 Subtech (Pty) Ltd: Tel 031 206 2073 Fax 031 205 7772

Underwater Systems ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Marine Solutions (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 511 0 3 Fax 021 511 0 5 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702 Subtech (Pty) Ltd: Tel 031 206 2073 Fax 031 205 7772 Underwater Surveys: Tel 021 70 6000 Fax 021 7 5302 Unique Hydra: Tel 021 53 375 Fax 021 53 3610

Welding Repairs ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 DCD Dorbyl Marine Cape Town: Tel 021 60 6000 Fax 021 7 603 Dormac (Pty) Ltd: Dbn Tel 031 27 1500 Cpt Tel 021 512 2 00 EBH South Africa: Tel 031 205 63 1 Fax 031 206 0252 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 J D Ship Services: Tel 021 511 1 Fax 021 511 7 10 SA Shipyards: Tel 031 27 1 Fax 0 6 5 0 702

S P SUPP Bunkers ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Smit Amandla Marine: Tel 021 507 5777 Fax 021 507 5 5 Sturrock Grindrod Marine Tech: Tel 021 510 00 2 Fax 021 511 1770

Crew Changes Servest Marine Services: Tel 021 3500 Fax 021 7 0 5 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Smit Amandla Marine: Tel 021 507 5777 Fax 021 507 5 5 Subtech (Pty) Ltd: Tel 031 206 2073 Fax 031 205 7772

Lubricants ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 J D Ship Services: Tel 021 511 1 Fax 021 511 7 10

Launches, Helicopters

ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Servest Marine Services: Tel 021 3500 Fax 021 7 0 5 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax

021 511 00 Smit Amandla Marine: Tel 021 507 5777 Fax 021 507 5 5

Offshore Rig Supply African Maritime Services: Tel 021 510 3532 Fax 021 510 3530 ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 DCD Dorbyl Marine Cape Town: Tel 021 60 6000 Fax 021 7 603 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax021 511 00 J D Ship Services: Tel 021 511 1 Fax 021 511 7 10 Novamarine a div of Novagroup: Tel 021 506 300 Fax 021 511 3 6 Smit Marine: Tel 021 507 5777 Fax 021 507 5 5

Oil Pollution Abatement / Cleanup ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Smit Amandla Marine: Tel 021 507 5777 Fax 021 507 5 5 S ITZER Salvage Africa: Tel 021 0 6710 Fax 021 0 613

Oil Pollution Equipment ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 iking Life-Saving Equipment (SA) (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 51 5160 Fax 0 6 03 211

Oil Spill Prevention Kits ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 iking Life-Saving Equipment (SA) (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 51 5160 Fax 0 6 03 211

Ship Chandlers African Maritime Services: Tel 021 510 3532 Fax 021 510 3530 J D Ship Services: Tel 021 511 1 Fax 021 511 7 10 Novamarine a div of Novagroup: Tel 021 506 300 Fax 021 511 3 6

Spare Parts African Marine Propulsion: Tel 021 01

0 Fax 0 6 21 0206 ASI Offshore: Tel 021 527 70 0 Fax 021 527 7050 Craig International Supplies (Pty) Ltd: Tel 021 552 5 Fax 021 552 523 HSE Supplies: Tel 021 511 030 Fax 021 511 00 Sturrock Grindrod Marine Tech: Tel 021 510 00 2 Fax 021 511 1770 Unique Hydra: Tel 021 53 375 Fax 021 53 3610 List your companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s details here

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