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Global leader in sustainable marine services, Svitzer, has selected Kongsberg Digital to deliver state-of-the-art simulators in support of crew traini...

Towage provider Svitzer has selected Kongsberg Digital to deliver new simulators in support of crew training at its Port…

Dan Cross, Master on the tug Svitzer Trident which operates in the UK, has been awarded the Merchant Navy Medal for Meritorious Service.

Lusaka - Zambia: Zambia Airports Corporation Limited has finally procured specialised ground handling equipment for Ndola’s Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe Airport

A disabled former Freeport tug master has filed a judicial protest against the company, claiming to have been summarily dismissed via SMS for no good reason 

The Code of Good Practice: Dismissal (the Code) serves as a guideline for all those presiding over disputes related to discipline and dismissal. Employers would be mistaken if they were to interpret the contents of the Code too simplistically. For example, item 3(4) of the code lists some examples of offences that might merit dismissal even in the absence of prior warnings. Included in this list is the offence of “gross insubordination”. The concept of insubordination means ‘re...

A chief harbour master who started as a taxi driver in Mamelodi, Pretoria, graduated with a postgraduate diploma in maritime studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) on Friday - and now he's reading for an MCom in leadership studies.

Captain Rufus Lekala masters his own destiny, after becoming one of the first black harbour masters in SA and now graduating from UKZN.

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