Table Bay Docks (A 15)

Name: Table Bay Docks

Port of Cape Town

CONTACT

Transnet National Ports Authority

Port of Cape Town
PO Box 4245
8000 CAPE TOWN

Tel (27) 021 449 3408 / 2612
Fax (27) 021 449 3107

Tel (27) 021 449 2612 (Port Manager)
email sanjay.govan@transnet.net

Tel (27) 021 449 5762 (Harbourmaster)
email eddie.bremner@transnet.net

Tel (27) 021 449 3408 (Public Affairs Dept)
Tel (27) 021 2007 (Marine Department)

website http://www.transnetnationalportsauthority.net/



Transnet Port Terminals (TPT, formerly SA Port Operations)

CAPE TOWN CONTAINER TERMINAL
Tel (27) 021 449 5956
email @transnet.net

CAPE TOWN MULI PURPOSE TERMINAL
Tel (27) 021 449 6449

TPT website http://www.transnetportterminals.net/



Port of Cape Town, Table Bay, the Fairest Cape, the Cape of Storms, the Cape of Good Hope, the Mother City. All these names provide an idea of what to expect. Cape Town competes with Alexandria for recognition as the most famous port in Africa and is certainly one of the most beautiful harbours in the world with a magnificent backdrop of Table Mountain framed by the mountainous Peninsular.



The port is situated on one of the world's busiest trade routes and will always retain strategic and economic importance for that reason alone.

Cape Town is also a busy container port, second in South Africa only to Durban, and handles the largest amount of fresh fruit.

Fishing has a significant place in the economic activity of the port, affecting the ship repair industry in particular, with large Asian fishing fleets using Cape Town as a transhipment logistics and repair base for much of the year. The emerging oil industry in West Africa has also become a significant factor for the port's repair and maintenance facilities.
http://ports.co.za/cape-town.php

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Car sinks in harbour, two dead
By Norman Joseph


Two men drowned when their vehicle plunged off the pier at the Table Bay docks in Cape Town on Wednesday night.

A third man survived.

A small amount of dagga was found wrapped in plastic between the seats in the VW Passat, which plunged into the water at 10.30pm on Wednesday.

Police divers spent the entire night trying to retrieve the vehicle. It was hoped it would be lifted out of the water on Thursday.

The three men, workers on the Agrao ship at the harbour, were in the vehicle at the Ben Schoeman dock, Quay 703.

They had apparently visited colleagues on a neighbouring ship and then got into the car.

The driver of the vehicle apparently attempted to make a three-point turn, but misjudged the space available and the car plunged off the pier into the water.

One man managed to fling himself out of the car as it went over the side of the jetty. He was slightly injured.


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