The historic Victoria and Alfred Basins were created after a vicious storm in 1858, which saw 30 ships blown ashore and wrecked, with huge loss of life.
The finalisation of the Network Statement by Transnet later this month will also open the door to a more competitive rail system, with an independent infrastructure manager charged with refereeing access to the country’s rail network.
Sails are undergoing a renaissance.
Few aeroplanes can beat the sight of the Airbus Beluga fleet.
Transnet announced on Friday that its container volumes had risen 10%, while bulk volumes and break-bulk volumes had increased by 5% and 17%, respectively.
Although there are some truly massive cargo planes crisscrossing the sky above us today, there’s always the need to go bigger.
Once constructed, it would be among the world’s largest ocean-going container ships, with a load capacity of up to 24,000 conventional containers
A US-based robotics company just carried out the successful flight of a Cessna 208B Caravan cargo aeroplane with no crew on board.
One of the last construction materials we might associate with cargo ships is concrete.
The flight, spanning 25 kilometres and lasting a little more than 10 minutes, is the first step in their hopes of commercial flights in Europe.
With a little sense of adventure, however, there is a lesser-known way to visit your family in Spain, and it’s a whole lot cheaper too.
Container ships are one of the safest ways to move cargo, so it’s great that the industry is looking at greener ways to get the job done.
The old saying “the bigger they are, the harder they fall” rings true when it comes to disasters involving massive cargo ships.
Once again, the idea of a zombie apocalypse is being explored, although this time we’re in the Australian outback with Martin Freeman.
When a plane carrying a heavy load of silver and gold took off after refuelling, its load shifted and made an escape, scattering all over the runway.