Tag: SAS
Armscor quality assurance in action on Project Hotel
Quality assurance and project management are watchwords Armscor sticks strictly to at SAS (Sandock Austral Shipyards) in Durban where the new hydrographic vessel for...
Sandock Austral Shipyards making progress with Project Hotel
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...
Empowerment award for Southern African Shipyards
Southern African Shipyards (SAS) has been named Best Established Black Owned Business at the Black Business Quarterly Awards in Johannesburg at the weekend.
The ceremony,...
Feature: The South African naval shipbuilding industry
South Africa's shipbuilding industry produces hundreds of vessels every year, with more than 90% being exported, and this includes naval vessels, from...
Transnet gets another tug
Another new Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) tug has come off the production line at Southern African Shipyards (SAS) in Durban.
It is...
Southern African Shipyards using Vard design to meet SA Navy hydrographic...
Southern African Shipyards has been selected as the preferred bidder to supply a new hydrographic survey vessel to the South African Navy,...
Fifth tug launched for Transnet
Southern African Shipyards (SAS) has launched a fifth tug for the Transnet National Ports Authority, the Ukhozi, in Durban on 13 February....
Southern African Shipyards launches fourth new tug for Transnet
The Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has received a fourth tug, from Southern African Shipyards (SAS), as it moves ahead with its...
Operation Phakisa reignites ocean economy
The South African Government's Operation Phakisa: Oceans Economy initiative has yielded more results with the launch of two tugboats built for Transnet...
Southern African Shipyards upbeat about 2016 after a tough 2015
Southern African Shipyards CEO Prasheen Maharaj believes there is a lot to be positive about regarding South Africa's maritime industry, which experienced...
SAS launches first of nine tugs for Transnet National Ports Authority
Southern African Shipyards this morning launched the first of nine new tugboats for the Transnet National Ports Authority at its Durban premises.
The...
SAS Amatola to be back in service early next year
The South African Navy's frigate SAS Amatola will be ready to deploy operationally in the first quarter of 2016 after being refitted...
CSTC will help SAS rejuvenate South African maritime industry
The China Shipbuilding and Trading Company (CSTC) will use its expertise to assist Southern African Shipyards (SAS) in the rebuilding of South...
European Investors introduced to Phakisa in London
South Africa's maritime economy has the potential to contribute up to R189 billion to the country's gross domestic product (GDP) and create...
Mid-life refit of SAS Amatola almost completed
Southern African Shipyards (SAS) has almost completed the mid-life refit of the SAS Amatola, which is due to be handed back to...
MoU strengthens local shipbuilding industry
The Memorandum of Understanding signed between Southern African Shipyards (SAS) and the China Shipbuilding and Trading Company (CSTC) will bring competitiveness and...
SAS Amatola undergoing midlife refit
The South African Navy frigate SAS Amatola has had both of her engines changed as part of a major mid-life refit that...
Book Review: Zambezi Valley Insurgency
Zambezi Valley Insurgency is Dr JRT Wood's latest look at the Rhodesian Bush War, this time focussing on the period April 1966...
245 ammunition dump blasts in 14 years: think tank
The Swiss-based Small Arms Survey (SAS) think tank says there's been 245 unplanned explosions at munitions sites (UEMS) around the world in...
Book review: Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Jake Harper-Ronald had no quiet life, and as the title of this autobiography suggests, he was indeed present in Derry on Sunday,...