A persistent red tide bloom is causing shoals of pilchards to swim into the surf zone around the Cape Peninsula according to
Times Live.
Read more >>Business Day reports that Sekunjalo Investments has won a five-year, R800-million contract to maintain eight research and patrol vessels belonging to the government.
Read more >> News24 reports that Australia intends establishing the world's biggest marine protection zone to safeguard a large part of the Coral Sea, a biodiversity hotspot that is brimming with life.
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Ports & Ships reports that three crew members have been kidnapped by pirates off the Nigerian coast from an American oil supply vessel, the Chevron. There are no reports of injuries but the fate of the three kidnapped crew members is still unknown.
Read more >>The world shipping industry could accept a global levy on carbon emissions from merchant ships under a deal that would also channel proceeds to poor countries, according to an announcement at the UN climate talks on Tuesday (29 November 2011).
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Because the European Union is short of warships it is unlikely to deploy any anti-piracy vessels in the Gulf of Aden before March next year according to
Defence Web.
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[Chris Bathembu] International Relations and Cooperation Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane has called on the delegates attending the climate change conference in South Africa to "retain" the trust that was built in Mexico last year.
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