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DHL logistics partner for MOGS in Saldanha Bay

DHL, the world’s leading logistics company, has become the preferred logistics partner of South Africa’s Mining Oil and Gas Services (MOGS) in the development of a new Oilfield Services Complex (OSC) in Saldanha, South Africa. DHL’s role will include the provision of the following services: bonded chartering services, warehousing and facility management, ocean freight, air freight,...

Windmills planned for the West Coast

New regulations for wind power projects. The Department of Energy announced last week that 1850 mw wind power by 2016 will be raised. This is a significant larger quota than 700mw by 2013 the Integrated Resource Plan (IRP2010) prescribed, but still less than the 4 000mw represented by projects already in June this year by the Department of Environmental Affairs approved. The government has deviated...

Transnet will start up a R70m water plant in Saldanha Bay

Cape Town – Transnet will start up a controversial R70m water plant in Saldanha in May, with which it plans to control the red iron-ore dust at its terminal. But great unhappiness over the potential impact of the plant on the bay prevails in Saldanha. Jaco Kotze, who chairs the Langebaan Ratepayers and Residents’ Association, said that the approval process for the plant had been bulldozed through. Unfortunately...

ArcelorMittal SA to buy ICT should Sishen rights be confirmed.

Local steel producer ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA) on Tuesday announced that a subsidiary company would acquire Imperial Crown Trading 289 (ICT) for R800-million, with the shareholders in ICT also to be included in AMSA’s R9,1-billion black economic-empowerment (BEE) deal. ICT had controversially been awarded prospecting rights over the 21,4% interest in the Sishen iron-ore mine, which AMSA had...

Parts for nuclear reactor to be stored in Saldanha Bay

The government has pulled the plug on its ambitious nuclear energy programme after pumping more than R9-billion into it over more than 11 years. In a letter dated July 5, Public Enterprises Minister Barbara Hogan told the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM): “The minister of finance has clearly stated that there will be no further funding for the company, and I would like to reiterate that...

Table Mountain view will never be the same again.

Breaking news on the SELI 1 Seli 1 is here to stay and as predicted will become a permanent feature on our shore line. The big swell of the first winter storm has been battering her for several days and has put the final nail in her rusty coffin. The area was named Table View for the great views of Table Mountain, which is one of the seven wonders of the world and. Tourists from...

Transnet Saldanha Bay focus on Iron ore expansion

South Africa’s State-owned transport utility Transnet is engaged in “serious talks” with Northern Cape iron-ore and manganese miners on the creation of capacity beyond 60-million tons a year, Kumba Iron Ore CEO Chris Griffith said on Thursday. Griffith told Engineering News Online during a mine visit that consulting engineering company Aurecon had been introduced to shed fresh light...

Garden Cities’ Archway Foundation gains momentum

Cape developer’s school hall project delivers on the dreams Enjoying one of the many new play features in the grounds of their new school hall at the Enkulukweni Junior School in Wallacedene, are pupils, from left: Zizipho Wala, Sandiso Ndopho, the school principal Mrs Alice Tomose Shabangu, Nosipho Malima (centre), Asemahle Mpompo (right, back), Siyanda Sigagayi and Nancy Legethe. Garden...

40 children will learn to ride waves in the South African Bodyboarding Championships

Flowers are not the only thing worth driving up the West Coast to see in the coming week. The annual South African Bodyboarding Championships hosted by Reef Wetsuits will be taking place in the Lamberts Bay area on the Cape’s West Coast from 27th September – 2nd October 2009. This year’s SA Champs has changed in format from previous years. In the past, the hosting province...

Gas pipeline for the West Coast, South Africa

Gigajoule Africa has submitted a license application to the National Energy Regulator of South Africa for the supply, transmission, distribution and trading of gas in the Cape West Coast region. Two supply options are being considered: the sourcing of marine compressed natural gas (CNG) from the Kudu gas field in Namibia, where the field joint venture partners are currently evaluating a development...