2019 Rain Season Means Business
Rain, rain and more rain. Follow most conversations on the West Coast of late and the subject of rain is sure to come up. You might hear things like, “We got some rain in June...” and “Looks like there might be more on the way”. You mi
Saldanha Bay Industrial Development Zone (IDZ) planning public participation partnerships (PSPs)
Transnet National Ports Authority / MEDIA STATEMENT / Transnet National Ports Authority said it had built flexibility into the tender specifications for Operation Phakisa new build projects at its ports in order to meet the current economic climate
Langebaan beaches sinking into the sea
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Cape Town - While the City of Cape Town has been working on salvaging what is left of nudist beach Sandy Bay, the beach is only one of many along the Western Cape coastline that is quickly losing sand and disappearing into the ocean. The construct
Transnet awards building contract for new Saldanha Bay tug boats.
- Jul, 24th 2012
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State-owned Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has ordered a new tugboat and pilot boat for South Africa’s largest natural deep-water port – Saldanha – in the Western Cape. TNPA, a division of Transnet, awarded preferred bidder status to
Saldanha Bay’s Huge Export Success & expansion plans.
A remarkable transport/engineering feat is happening on the Sishen/Saldanha iron ore export effort which now literally has wheels in motion for far-reaching results, especially so for Saldanha’s ore export project. Last month Transnet Freight Ra
Western Cape Government’s invests in Saldanha Bay
The Western Cape Government's mid-term review has shown us how far we've come, but also the enormous tasks that lie ahead. As your government, we want to partner with you so that we can fast track our goal of becoming an open, opportunity society for
Saldanha Bay Industrial Development Zone is a positive for the Western Cape
Wesgro CEO Nils Flaatten believes that the Saldanha Bay Industrial Development Zone (IDZ) will have a positive effect not only on the Saldanha Bay area but the Western Cape as a whole. Monday saw the release of the Saldanha Bay Industrial Developmen
SA may designate Saldanha IDZ by September 2012
A feasibility study into the creation of South Africa’s fifth industrial development zone (IDZ), at Saldanha Bay, in the Western Cape, estimates that the development could yield between 4 240 and 8 930 direct jobs over a 25-year period and add betw
Global consultancy forecasts big SA oilfield services growth for Saldanha Bay
Global consultancy Deloitte says South Africa’s geographical proximity to the expanding West African oilfields, together with its deep-water harbours and its engineering expertise, offered favourable conditions for a material expansion of the count
API’s first pipe mill to be followed by two more as water projects touch R5bn
Africa Pipe Industries (API) CEO John-Gordon Jansen van Nieuwenhuizen started planning his Sasolburg pipe plant in 2010, with the first project rolling off-line in January this year. He estimates the plant’s first year of turnover will be betw
Saldanha Port actively looking for private partners.
The head of South Africa’s national ports authority has pledged to adopt a far more “activist” approach to the development of harbour infrastructure and terminal capacity “ahead of demand” and to do so in partnership with private sector inv
Wave Power could be an option for the West Coast, Darling to Saldanha
SA’s abundant sea waves have the potential to provide more than just a good surf. Wave energy — electricity generated from the movement of waves — could provide a cheap and sustainable form of renewable energy. But it’s early days. Oelsner