For a Rate Card please contact us at terry africaports. Click on headline to go direct to story: use the BACK key to return. Entering port at Durban on 19 January was the multipurpose offshore supply vessel, Deepsea Worker IMO , with an interesting array of equipment on her deck.
Deepsea Worker has reached the impressive age of 46 years, having been well built in by the firm of Hatlo Verksted, in Ulsteinvik, Norway. Picture by Keith Betts. US shippers are grappling with a perfect storm of rising costs, with the latest increase in tariffs on Chinese imports and soaring ocean freight rates caused by the ongoing conflict in the Red Sea, analysts warn. The most recent data from Xeneta, an ocean and air freight intelligence platform, reveals that average spot rates for ocean freight from China to the United States have skyrocketed.
December brought the year to a close with continued strong performance. Global demand was 6. Global capacity was 3. Cargo yields were 6. AD Ports Group, a prominent facilitator of global trade, logistics, and industry, has begun its long-term management and development of a multipurpose terminal and an associated logistics business in Luanda, Angola. This initiative represents a significant expansion into sub-Saharan Africa, undertaken in partnership with local entities Unicargas and Multiparques.
It is not very often that two passenger vessel sisterships, still operating from the same cruise company fleet, visit South African shores in the same season. In this instance, at the start of the season, one was conducting a passenger carrying positioning voyage to the Persian Gulf, avoiding the Red Sea and the Houthi menace, and the next arrival was three quarters of the way through a round the world cruise, and on the homeward leg back to Europe.
Since the last report, Cyclone 11S has crossed westwards towards Madagascar and at 03h00 on Sunday 2 February was situated near The cyclone has tracked west. Minimum central pressure at midnight was MB. Maximum wave height at that time 12 feet 3.
