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MS Oliva News
Ms Oliva ran aground at 04.30 on 16th March 2011 at Spinners Point, the far north-west promontory of Nightingale Island.
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African Marine Cable Construction under way
Construction began on the 4,500-kilometer East African Marine System (TEAMS) undersea fiber optic project that will link east Africa to the Middle East and the rest of the world, according to government officials.
Alcatel-Lucent will construct the cable, which should be operational in next year's second quarter, for $82 million. The vendor won a tender for the project last year.
The cable will provide affordable international broadband connectivity to several countries in east Africa, said Kenyan Minister of Information and Communication Samuel Paghisio. The cable, Paghisio said, will initially have a capacity of 40GB but will later be upgraded to 640GB.
"The cable will bring competition on the pricing of bandwidth, which means that the cost of communication in the region will come down," Paghisio said.
The project is a joint venture between the Kenyan government and the United Arab Emirates government through Etisalat Telecommunication. The two governments own 20 percent shares each in the project. Eighty percent of project shares have been opened to the private sector.
The cable will run from Mombasa in Kenya to a global network of fiber-optic cables at Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. The East African region includes Rwanda, Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan and Somalia.
Kenya is a member of the east African submarine cable system (EASSY), another submarine cable project that will run parallel to TEAMS project under the Indian Ocean from Durban, South Africa, to Port Sudan in Sudan and provide high speed Internet connectivity. The EASSY project will connect 21 countries in the eastern and southern Africa region to the rest of the world.
Monday, June 16, 2008
Hapag-Lloyd launches service between Asia & Africa
Hapag-Lloyd will launch a new service called WSX in July to serve the market between Asia, South and West Africa. The new WSX service has been designed to meet Hapag Lloyd’s existing and future customer requirements for a direct fixed day service between the two continents.
Operating fortnightly, the WSX service will link Asia to South Africa, Ghana, Togo and Nigeria on the following rotation: Shanghai – Ningbo – Xiamen – Shekou – Port Kelang – Durban – Tema – Lome – Lagos – Durban – Port Kelang – Shanghai.
The service will deploy five ships with capacities ranging between 2,000 and 2,500 TEU with adequate reefer plugs. Hapag-Lloyd will deploy one vessel in the service which will be jointly operated with partners China Shipping and Maruba Lines.
The first departure will be from Shanghai on July 15th.
West Africa:
Workshop On Prevention of Marine Pollution (AllAfrica.com)
A three-day regional workshop on the London Convention and Protocol in West africa aimed at preventing marine pollution began in Accra on Wednesday to increase awareness on the effects of waste dumping at sea.
Friday, 21 September 2007
SA's new marine-research vessel launched
The Department of Environmental Affairs' new dedicated research vessel, the Ellen Khuzwayo, was launched by Environmental Affairs Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk in Cape Town on Thursday.
Van Schalkwyk said the ship would be used mainly for inshore research, including work on crayfish, linefish, seabirds, marine mammals and sharks. It would also be used for diving operations and for monitoring and researching oceanographic conditions.
"With the global community increasingly realising the challenges of climate change, we will now be more prepared to monitor these changes in the oceans closer to our own shores," Van Schalkwyk said
The ship is equipped with two fully-fitted laboratories, one for fish sampling and another for ceanographic studies, plus advanced acoustic equipment for fish surveys and state-of-the-art oceanographic equipment.
It carries a crew of 13 and has accommodation for eight scientists. Designed to operate in the waters of the southern African region, it can freely range South Africa's 200 nautical mile economic exclusion zone and can stay at sea for over two weeks.
The ship is named after the late Dr Ellen Khuzwayo, a prominent figure in the struggle against apartheid.
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