Africa News

MV Sengerema, which operates on Lake Victoria in East Africa, has been equipped with two Schottel Type SRP 90 rudder propellers.

Sasol has restarted production at the 108,000 barrels a day (b/d) Natref refinery that it co-owns with TotalEnergies.

Sasol has announced that the supply of crude oil for the 108,000 barrels a day (b/de) Natref refinery has been ‘partially restored’.

South Africa’s Sasol is set to restart the 108,000 barrels a day (b/de) Natref refinery by the end of this month, according to Reuters.

The Government of Nigeria and a coalition of global shipping organisations have launched a strategy to end piracy and armed robbery in the Gulf of Guinea (GoG), an area which was the focus of all reported crew kidnappings in 2021.

A rise in marine fuel costs has prompted CMA CGM to implement a Bunker Recovery Adjustment Factor (BRAF) for vessels calling West African ports.

The South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA) has confirmed that bunkering services have returned in Algoa Bay following the clean-up of an oil spill last month.

A new P4G-Getting to Zero Coalition report, ‘Shipping’s Energy Transition: Strategic Opportunities in South Africa’, says that the country’s large renewable capacity and location at the gateway between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans position it to benefit from the maritime decarbonisation agenda on both a domestic and international level.

Two Minerva Bunkering vessels involved in a fuel spill during an STS transfer earlier this week at Algoa Bay in South Africa have now been separated, but bunkering operations remain suspended in the area.

Offshore bunkering operations in Algoa Bay, South Africa have been suspended following a fuel spill during a transfer operation between two Minerva Bunkering vessels on 23 May.