A successful South African educational programme which equips teenagers with maritime skills while they are still at school has been shortlisted for an international award. The Simon’s Town-based Lawhill Maritime Studies programme, which was...
The Japanese fishing vessel, the Eihatsu Maru, was successfully pulled off Clifton’s First Beach on Friday, almost a week to the day it ran aground, and was towed to Cape Town Harbour. After two failed attempts, salvagers managed to pull the ship...
South Africa has become a signatory to the International Maritime Organisation’s Djibouti Code of Conduct concerning the repression of piracy and armed robbery of ships in the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden, becoming the 19th country to sign the...
European antipiracy troops carried out their first air attack on mainland Somalia, strafing a beach from a low-flying helicopter and destroying pirates’ boats, fuel supplies and an arms cache. The attack is likely to lead to an...
