Multi-purpose CoolSeal boxes now in SA

When the new CoolSeal SA packaging range launched at the Propak Exhibition in Cape Town last month, surprising new applications for the product in a South African market emerged. The CoolSeal range has been extremely successful in Europe, offering an environmentally friendly alternative to the traditional expanded polystyrene box. Read more >>

Rock lobster fishing season opens tomorrow

PRETORIA: The 2011 recreational fishing season for West Coast rock lobster (WCRL) will open on Wednesday, 16 November 2011. This was announced by the fisheries management branch of the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries last week. Read more >>

SA Agulhas on pre- COP17 voyage

[Francis Hweshe] CAPE TOWN: The Department of Environmental and Water Affairs has released South Africa's polar research and supply vessel - the SA Agulhas - on a symbolic ten-day climate change voyage ahead of COP17 in Durban. Read more >>

Most oil emptied from stricken New Zealand ship

WELLINGTON: Salvage crews have pumped almost all the oil from a container ship that ran aground on a New Zealand reef and caused the country's worst maritime pollution disaster, authorities said on Monday, 14 November 2011. Read more >>

SA, Moz clamp down on piracy

PRETORIA: South Africa and Mozambique have partnered to ensure the safety of the region's seas by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which will step up efforts to put pirates out of business. Read more >>

Transnet's 100 billion plan for Durban "old" airport

IOL reports that, according to National Port Authority officials, Transnet's procurement of Durban's former airport site as a multibillion-rand dug-out port is close to being a "done deal". Read more >>