Tag: Project Hotel

Last week, the South African Navy (SA Navy) hosted a seminar in Cape Town to celebrate World Hydrographic Day, underscoring the critical role of...

The South African Navy (SA Navy) will have to wait a while longer to receive its much-anticipated new hydrographic survey vessel that is being...

SAS Nelson Mandela (A187), the new SA Navy (SAN) hydrographic survey vessel (HSV), is “on track” with hull construction complete. She is the major component...

Floods, civil unrest and the COVID-19 pandemic have substantially delayed the South African Navy’s Project Biro (for multi-mission inshore patrol vessels) and Project Hotel...

The delivery of the South African Navy’s new Hydrographic Survey Vessel (HSV) under Project Hotel has been delayed as a result of the Covid-19...

On 23 May, the South African Navy (SAN) celebrated a remarkable achievement when its hydrographic survey vessel SAS Protea turned fifty. This is the...

Sandock Austral Shipyards will deliver the South African Navy’s new hydrographic survey vessel (HSV) in April next year as part of the larger Project...

Durban’s Sandock Austral Shipyards (SAS) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Vard Marine to deepen collaboration between the two companies. Vard Marine, a...

Quality assurance and project management are watchwords Armscor sticks strictly to at SAS (Sandock Austral Shipyards) in Durban where the new hydrographic vessel for...

Paramount Group company Paramount Maritime has launched the first of three next-generation Survey Motor Boats (SMBs) for the South African Navy in support of...

Project Hotel, for the provision of a new hydrographic survey vessel for the South African Navy, is seeing concrete progress, with six out of...

Sandock Austral Shipyards, previously known as Southern African Shipyards, is moving swiftly ahead with the construction of the South African Navy’s new hydrographic survey...

Teledyne CARIS has announced they will be delivering a full software solution to the South African Navy’s Hydrographic Office as part of Project Hotel...

Norwegian company Kongsberg Maritime will supply hydroacoustic and bridge system technology on the South African Navy’s new hydrographic survey vessel being acquired under Project...

Durban-based Southern African Shipyards (SAS) will on Friday 30 November cut steel for the South African Navy's new hydrographic survey vessel, which...

Durban-based Southern African Shipyards (SAS) aims to cut steel on the new hydrographic survey vessel for the South African Navy (SAN) in...

Durban-based Southern African Shipyards (SAS) is the main contractor for Project Hotel to supply the SA Navy with a new hydrographic vessel...

Seven months ago Southern African Shipyards was named the preferred bidder to provide a new hydrographic platform for the SA Navy and...

In February this year, Armscor announced two "preferred bidders" for what will be the second largest acquisition of defence equipment in democratic...

While Armscor says it is still in the process of evaluating submissions, even though preferred bidders have been named for new SA...

In February Armscor made public the names of preferred bidders for new naval platforms, including a hydrographic vessel. Durban-based SA Shipyards was announced...

Armscor is keeping its cards close to the chest as regards a new hydrographic vessel for the SA Navy under Project Hotel...

Chief of the SA Navy Vice Admiral Mosuwa Hlongwane says the end goal of Projects Hotel and Biro, to acquire new inshore...

As it enters the final negotiating stage for one part of South Africa's second largest military equipment acquisition since democracy, Armscor is...

Armscor has announced the preferred bidders to supply the SA Navy with seven new hulls more than two years after tenders were...

While the awarding of tenders to build seven new hulls for the SA Navy will not turn the fortunes of the South...

One who is not overly distressed about the budget review process for new in- and offshore patrol vessels - with reservations -...

Once again a lack of funding appears to be putting the brakes on the acquisition of much-needed military equipment with the SA...

It's been more than a year since tender submissions for projects Hotel and Biro closed and Armscor is still "going through internal...

Damen Shipyards Cape Town (DSCT) is ready and willing to supply offshore and inshore patrol vessels to the South African Navy under...

Showcasing the shipbuilding element of government's Operation Phakisa initiative is still some way off with Armscor not currently prepared to release any...

The SA Navy's need for additional hulls is currently the only driver of the shipbuilding component of the blue economy initiative that...

Armscor is keeping its cards close to the chest as regards its single largest tender request for the SA Navy since democracy. Project...

Shipyards keen on being chosen to build the SA Navy's new hydrographic vessel were this week informed a mandatory black economic empowerment...

The complexity of a tender for a new hydrographic vessel for the SA Navy has seen the closing date extended by two...

The new chairman and board of directors are turning Armscor into an entity that appears to want to nurture and grow the...

The South African shipbuilding industry is working on responding to tenders issued by Armscor for a new hydrographic vessel under Project Hotel...

The South African Navy (SAN) has awarded the Institute for Maritime Technology (IMT) a R1 231 779.70 contract for strategic technology and...

Cape company Electrowave (Pty) Ltd has been awarded a R6.1 million contract to supply, fit and commission two diesel driven generator sets...

The SAS Protea, the South African Navy's now-aged Hecla-class hydrographic vessel, has gained a new R38.7 million shallow water route survey system....

The SAS Protea is equipped for hydrographic survey and the collection of oceanographic data. Ships of the class: ...