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Title: February 2006 Issue


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  • In this issue
  • Container Tariffs 2006/2007 - SAPO
  • Container Cleaning Fee - Forwarder takes a stand
    on lines
  • Car manufacturers to focus on exports
  • Perishable facility closes
  • Plans for big investment in Maputo cooling
    facilities
  • High profile convictions prevent overloading
  • Walvis Bay Port is Growing
  • Matadi Port Terminal Congestion
  • KENYA - SGS South Africa (PTY) Ltd, January 200
  • Second hand vehicle market changes on the way
  • Stowaways what the law says
  • Lessons from the Ark
  • The growth in the South African container trade
    over the past decade has surpassed the
    international growth rates and placed extreme
    pressure on South African Port Operations
    Container Terminal capacity. The South African
    Port Operations remains committed to meet this
    growth challenge by providing capacity ahead of
    demand. This is substantiated by the significant
    container capacity investment program presently
    in progress. The prominent features of this
    program are the on-going investment in gantry
    cranes and straddle carriers at Durban, Port
    Elizabeth and Cape Town Container Terminals, the
    commissioning of the Pier 1 Container Terminal in
    Durban and the development of the Ngqura
    Container Terminal. SAPO has recently signed a
    contract for the supply of 14 super post Panamax
    cranes for Pier 1, Durban Container Terminal and
    Cape Town Container Terminal. South African Port
    Operations is committed to providing a
    differentiated service offering to its container
    customers. However, SAPO also needs to ensure
    that the current container market remains
    accessible to all its users. With regard to 01
    April 2006 the base tariff will increase by4.8.
    During the past 2 years the South African
    Container Advisory Board and associated Container
    Liner Operator Forum structures have developed
    and introduced key performance indicators and
    behavioral compliance criteria with the view to
    ensuring optimal container supply chain
    performance in South Africa.
  • Acting on legal advice, a major forwarder is
    refusing from January 1 to pay the container
    cleaning fee - which most shipping lines and
    NVOCCs impose regardless of whether a container
    is clean or not.And, in a letter to seven major
    shipping lines and ships agents, it has also
    retained its right to take legal action to get
    release of the cargo if the line/agent refuses to
    let cargo through unless the fee is paid.
  • Narrowing the trade gap between exports and
    imports of vehicles and components is the
    priority for South African motor manufacturers,
    according to the 2005 annual report of the
    National Association of Automobile Manufacturers
    of South Africa (Naamsa).Total imports for the
    auto industry totalled R58-billion in 2004, and
    exports R39.2-billion, leaving a deficit of
    R18.8-billion.
  • Fresh Produce Terminals, South Africas largest
    portside handler of cooling facilities for fresh
    export produce, has captured the total Cape Town
    business of specialised reefer operators
    NYKLauritzenCool and Seatrade from rival Southern
    African Fruit Terminals.SAFT effectively closed
    down its Cape Town and Durban terminal operations
    in the Mother City and Durban last month but
    still maintains a number of other cooling
    operations.
  • Fresh Produce Terminals plans to inject more than
    R100 million into new and upgraded cooling
    facilities at Maputo within the next two years.
  • The introduction of a weighbridge at Groblers
    Bridge Border Post has dramatically reduced
    overloading on the alternative route to the north
    that avoids transit through Zimbabwe.Director of
    Cargo Services, Ian Cooper, said that the gross
    overloading which had been experienced on the
    route and led to a number of high profile
    convictions immediately after the weighbridge was
    introduced was definitely a thing of the past.
  • Further extensions to the port of Walvis Bay
    container terminal and the provision of a new EDI
    system are priorities in Namports plans for
    2006, The container terminal was recently
    upgraded from 368 to 778 ground slots. This
    increased the handling capacity to more than
    8-million tonnes of bulk, containerised, frozen
    and dry cargo and about 250 000 TEUs annually.
    Now an additional 100 ground slots are to be
    opened up, says Mouton.
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  • Matadi Port Congestion
  • The Ewata Lines have reviewed the current
    congestion problems which basically consist of
  • A Port congestion situation whereby there are
    simply not sufficient berths available, because
    of refurbishment works. This is resulting in
    vessels having to wait several days before being
    able to berth. A Terminal congestion situation
    whereby operations take much longer than
    considered normal due to congestion of the
    terminal, lack of equipment, lack of space, etc.
    They are confronted with two different problems
    and decided to implement two different
    surcharges.
  • Matadi Port Congestion Surcharge
    US60 /teu
  • Matadi Terminal Congestion Surcharge
    US330 /teu
  • In view of the fact that the Congo River
    presently has 26 feet draft the Congo River
    Surcharge was cancelled on 14 December 2005.
  • Pre-shipment inspection for Kenya imports ended
    on 30th June 2005, subsequently the Kenya Bureau
    of Standards introduced another programme known
    as PvoC (Pre-shipment Verification Of
    Conformity), which commenced on 29th September
    2005.This programme is


    based on the Conformity Assessment Rule
    adoption, by the Kenyan authorities, of the WTO
    Agreement, Article 5.  This article specifically
    relates to the regulation of products being
    imported into the country.Exporters are to
    ensure that their products or goods meet the
    regulations and quality requirements of Kenya
    before shipment. Depending upon the product, this
    may require testing or the production by the
    exporter/manufacturer of the products
    certification to a relevant standard.
  • At the expense of Durban, Musina could become a
    major hub for the sale of second hand motor
    vehicles imported into South Africas
    neighbouring countries from Japan and
    Singapore.Anticipation of this is already
    driving the creation of more warehousing space in
    the town.This is the view of Gary Mitchell,
    director of Musina-based Mitchell Export
    International, which has a 12 year history of
    exporting new and used motor vehicles to
    Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique.
  • The recent drowning in Durban harbour of two
    stowaways who were tossed overboard the African
    Kalahari by members of the crew who are now
    facing charges of murder and attempted murder has
    again raised the complicated question of what the
    law both international and national says on
    the issue of stowaways. A look at the
    International Maritime Organisation (IMO)
    Guidelines on the allocation of responsibilities
    to seek the successful resolution of stowaway
    cases , provides some interesting facts.The
    resolution of stowaway cases is difficult, said
    the IMO guidelines, because of different
    national legislation in each of the potentially
    several countries involved - the country of
    embarkation, the country of disembarkation, the
    flag state of the vessel, the country apparently
    claimed or actual nationality/citizenship of the
    stowaway, and the countries of transit during
    repatriation.
  • Dont listen to critics, just get on with the job
    that needs to be done,
  • Plan ahead, it wasnt raining when the Ark was
    built. And If things get really deep, dont just
    sit there and complain, shovel.
  • Should you have any enquiries please contact
    Jenny Iyer
  • jenny_at_laserint.co.za tel.(27) (031) 465 0577.
  • The views and opinions expressed in these
    articles are those of the
  • Authors and not necessarily those of Laser
    Logistics (Pty) Ltd or the
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