24 july namib times e-edition

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SERVING THE COASTAL COMMUNITY SINCE 1958 NO 6771 TUESDAY 24 JULY 2018 Tel: +264 64 - 205854 / +264 64 - 461866 /Fax: +264 64 - 204813 / 064 - 461824 / Website: www.namibtimes.net

Mega-marine engineering assignment off Walvis Bay An unusual marine engineering assignment is currently in the happening off Walvis Bay. All six thruster units (propulsion units) of the ocean drilling ship Poseidon is replaced, as part of a routine maintenance schedule. Poseidon is anchored off Walvis Bay and the work is carried out by a number of local marine engineering service providers, in conjunction with the thruster-manufacturer Rolls Royce. Poseidon is on contracted to drill an exploration well in Namibian waters later this year for Tullow Namibia, a gas and oil exploration company.

Arandis to get hi-tech Emergency Response and More questions than answers Traffic Management Centre Eileen van der Schyff

Gas bottle fire

There are more questions than answers a week after a gas bottle ignited and caused a devastating house fire at Langstrand on Tuesday night of last week. Was the fire caused by human error, a malfunctioning gas bottle or a combination of both? To date, the municipal fire brigade has not yet removed the gas bottle from the fire scene to inspect it or subject it to forensic tests to determine whether it was a mechanism that malfunctioned on the bottle or whether human error could be the cause of the fire. Yesterday the fire chief Mr Denis Basson could only speculate over the cause of the fire, and denied that he said at the fire scene last week, there was a malfunction to the gas bottle. Several questions were directed by namib times to the various parties that are connected to the incident. The responses by the various parties leave more questions than Continues on page 2

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End of free parking at Swakop

Floris Steenkamp

A state-of-the art Emergency Response and Traffic Management Centre is planned at Arandis. The Centre will form the backbone of a traffic safety network along the B2 highway between Swakopmund and Usakos which will include close circuit television along the route, permanently placed speed cameras, hi-tech devices that can weigh vehicles on the move as well as electronic information signs that warns motorists on traffic hazards ahead. The Centre will also be the pivot for first responders to accident scenes and to transport the injured to medical facilities within shorter response times in order to save lives. The Centre is expected to fully functioning within the next three to five years, it was said during fundraising dinner in Walvis Bay on Friday night where more than N$200 000 was pledged for capital towards the establishment of the Centre. That is additional to the N$630 000 already pledged by Swakop Uranium (N$500 00), the Erongo Regional Council (N$180 000) and land donated for the project by Arandis Town Council to the value of N$840 000. Studies showed that most accidents on the B2 occurs within a radius close to Arandis either on the route to Swakopmund or to Usakos. The Governor of Erongo Clr Cleophas Mutjavikua was the guest of honour at Continues on page 2

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