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...While we are doing this, we have to sail around the Cape of Good Hope and there are consequences of this.”...
...As many of South Africa’s cities, including Johannesburg, have fallen apart, Cape Town has gained a reputation for economic growth and improved services....
...In one long-running case, Gary Porritt, the former CEO of once Johannesburg-listed financial services group Tigon, was arrested in 2002 on more than 3,000 criminal charges....
...Similar revolving doors have played out in the Western Cape and Ekhuruleni region outside Johannesburg....
...Kristoffersen said that, unlike some other parts of the shipping industry, car-carrier lines had not been able to bring in spare, unused ships to maintain the same service frequency of services....
...From there, short-distance “feeder” services ferry goods to other southern European terminals....
...The research, by the London-based shipping services company Clarksons, also showed that the number of container ships diverting from the Red Sea to travel round the Cape of Good Hope on January 9 was more...
...The 102-day time required to complete a loop between Asia and north Europe and back via the Cape of Good Hope means a line needs to deploy 16 ships for a weekly service, instead of the normal 12....
...Maersk, operator of the world’s second-biggest container ship fleet, said it had “suspended” slow-steaming on some services to catch up on “some of the delay” from sailing around the Cape of Good Hope....
...Meanwhile, the Freedom Front Plus, a rightwing Afrikaner party, is backing the independence of Western Cape, the province that includes Cape Town, from the rest of South Africa....
...longer routes via the Cape of Good Hope....
...I tasted a range of Cape Agulhas wines at the neighbouring Black Oystercatcher wine farm on Mother’s Day and Sean Petersen of Zoetendal had to dash back for lunch service.)...
...It is the first of eight missions in Nasa’s commercial lunar payload services initiative, a vital step in the space agency’s plan to send humans back to the lunar surface....
...The diversions have mainly affected services between Asia and Europe, although some services from Asia to the US east coast are also affected....
...Their decision means that nearly all big car car-carrier operators have now switched their Asia to Europe services to the longer route round the Cape of Good Hope....
...Such a route might involve sailing between Asia and Europe via the Cape of Good Hope rather than the Suez Canal....
...Figures from Clarksons, the London-based shipping services company, show that in the week to January 28 average daily arrivals of dry bulk vessels around the mouth of the Red Sea were down by 45 per cent...
...The Copenhagen-based company’s other vessels have been travelling via the Cape of Good Hope since December....
...The Red Sea problems had caused diversions around the Cape of Good Hope, adding up to two weeks to journeys between Asia and Europe and creating extra charges, CMA CGM’s finance chief Ramon Fernandez said...
...Mallon expressed hope, nevertheless, that shipping lines’ service patterns would “stabilise” as arrivals via the Cape settled into a regular pattern....
...It is all topped off with the most spectacular views of Cape Town and Table Mountain....
...German company Hapag-Lloyd diverted all ships on Monday to go via the Cape of Good Hope, MSC decided on Friday to reroute some of its services and Marseille-based CMA CGM is taking similar action....
...There are also restrictions on RZD’s ability to access some financial services. However, there is no ban on moving goods by rail through the country....
...Nasa is counting on the development of commercial services to the lunar surface to help cut the costs of its own programmes....
...Those include receiving the National Medal of Merit from the president of Cape Verde and opportunities such as speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos....
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