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New customs rules for South Africa

Manifest details for all containerised cargo arriving in South Africa will need to be reported to the South African Revenue Service no later than 24 hours prior to container loading 20 April. The new regulation applies to containerized cargo discharged at South African ports, including all transshipment cargo.   [+]

More ships for MACS

MACS - Maritime Carrier Shipping of Hamburg - has added four new multi-purpose ships to its Europe to Southern Africa conventional service. It sails every 12 days from Immingham (all cargoes) and Tilbury (containers) to Walvis Bay, Cape Town, Durban and Richard’s Bay. John Good Shipping are UK agents. [+]

Davies Turner ships real-life plane kit

Freight forwarder, Davies Turner has delivered a full-sized 'Airfix kit' from Britain to South Africa. Parts from a de Havilland DH 100 Vampire discovered in a domestic garage in Dorset were moved to South Africa as part of a project to rebuild two classic post-War British fighters - one of the ... [+]

Shortlist for Safmarine’s ‘sport in a box’

  An unused Safmarine shipping container converted into a colourful multi-purpose sports centre in the Western Cape town of Piketberg has been chosen as one of 12 finalists for a sustainable architecture award. The 2011/2012 AfriSam/SAIA Award for Sustainab le Architectur - a joint collaboration between South African cement and aggregates producer AfriSam ... [+]

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