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Southern Africa
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SHIPPING NEWS |
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incorporating: South African
Shipping News and Fishing Industry Review
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FROM THE EDITOR... -
May 2004 Issue |
There are a lot of short stories in this issue
of SA Shipping News. There’s no particular
reason for this other than the fact that there
is just so much news that in order to bring it
all to you, it was necessary to keep the
articles as short as possible.
Legal eagles, like journalists, are always short
of time. Stringing pages and pages of words
together is no easy task. Nor is ‘keeping it
simple’. It is for this reason that we
appreciate the time they have taken to
“de-legalese” and write (and probably rewrite)
the articles that you will read in these pages.
As far as the port authorities are concerned
they always seem to pull the short straw when it
comes to pleasing their customers! But there are
lots of exciting developments happening in the
Eastern Cape, least of all at the port of Ngqura
which is nearing completion. It won’t be long
before the flooding of the basin starts, turning
a vision into a reality. East London is also
working hard to attract business to the port and
surrounds.
Our Namibian correspondent, Maggi Barnard,
begged and pleaded to go aboard the Crystal
Serenity when it docked at Walvis Bay. We bring
to you an account of what life is like in the
lap of luxury, when you have all the time in the
world to pamper yourself. Dream on….
Trying to précis what came out of the Oil Africa
2004 conference and exhibition held in Cape Town
during March was really quite difficult because
of the huge volume of information that was
shared. The focus is on what the South African
speakers had to say, particularly as the plan is
to develop the Western Cape as the service hub
for the oil and gas industries. The long and
short of it is that transformation has been slow
and oil companies are taking their time to give
work to smaller companies, especially those that
were historically disadvantaged. The government
is addressing this and plans to establish a
Supplier Development Plan, which will link the
capacitating of companies to existing
opportunities in the industry.
In conclusion we are pleased to tell you that as
time marches on, so too are plenty of people on
the move and up the ranks. If there are any
changes of this nature in your company, please
let us know. You can email your mugshots to us
but don’t forget that we need your names.
Tata.
Editor
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