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South Africa: Cocaine Worth More Than R85 Million Seized At Harbour in Port Elizabeth – Port Elizabeth in the News

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South Africa: Cocaine Worth More Than R85 Million Seized At Harbour in Port Elizabeth: More than R85m worth of narcotics were seized at Port Elizabeth's Ngqura Port Harbour over the weekend, the police said. This after an intelligence-driven multidisciplinary integrated operation by ... Source: "Port Elizabeth" - BingNews. South Africa: R85m drug bust at PE harbour: An intelligence-driven police operation over the weekend discovered and seized narcotics worth over R85 million at the Port Elizabeth. The multi-disciplinary integrated operation by the Ports of Entry ... Source: "Port …

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Port of East London to recommission existing liquid bulk tank

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More than 100 attendees representing 97 companies have shown keen interest in the Port of East London’s plans to recommission an existing tank in the port for handling of liquid bulk and to introduce a liquid bulk terminal through a 25-year port concession awarded to a private, empowered entity. The companies attended a compulsory briefing on 9 May 2018 held by Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA). TNPA recently advertised a request for proposals (RFP) – reference number TNPA 2017/01/013/CM – with the intention to appoint a terminal operator to finance, re-commission, operate and …

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Export cars on the PE Harbour – Featured Blog

Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Export cars on the PE Harbour: Looking down onto the harbour from the Campanile observation deck, one just can't help but wonder where in the world these cars are being exported to. Source: Port Elizabeth Daily Photo. Click HERE to submit your blog to be part of this daily feature. CLICK HERE to get a daily digest of PE Goodness straight into your inbox with the MyPE Monday to Friday Newsletter. …

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The Port Elizabeth harbour wall – Featured Blog

Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: The Port Elizabeth harbour wall: The Port Elizabeth harbour achieved "port" status for the first time in 1825, long before a proper harbour even existed.  Back then a harbour master was appointed to regulate and oversee the offloading of ships anchored offshore with goods and people being brought to shore in rowboats.  An official surfboat service was established in 1836 and this was followed by the construction of the first jetty in 1837. It wasn't until 1933 and the construction of the Charl Malan Quay (No.1 Quay, now used …

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Looking along Kings Beach from the harbour – Featured Blog

Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Looking along Kings Beach from the harbour: When was the last time you've walked to the bottom of Kings Beach and back?  Been a while or even never?  Do reward yourself with this stunning view up the beach looking at the beachfront skyline from the harbour wall.   Source: Port Elizabeth Daily Photo. Click HERE to submit your blog to be part of this daily feature. CLICK HERE to get a daily digest of PE Goodness straight into your inbox with the MyPE Monday to Friday Newsletter. …

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Donkin Memorial and Harbour, Port Elizabeth, Timelapse – [Video]

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Timelapse at nightfall of the Donkin Memorial and Lighthouse in Port Elizabeth, South Africa …

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Magnetic Storm to bring the People’s Port Festival to life

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Following a tender process, Magnetic Storm has been appointed to bring the People’s Port Festival to life for Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA). Free to attend, on March 25th and 26th, the Port Elizabeth Port will be abuzz as it opens its doors and showcases some of the incredible technology, ocean experiences to be had, as well as offering tours to areas, usually closed to the public. Managing the event from conceptualisation through to clean-up, Magnetic Storm is running the logistics of the event in partnership with TNPA and its stakeholders. “We’re charged with bringing …

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And no-one fell in the water

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Franck and Delphine Lechifflart performed the first of their FREE acrobatic shows from their sailboat, La Loupiote, at the Algoa Bay Yacht Club last night. The first of the two 20 minute long shows at 6:00 pm was in the style of old Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin movies and called 'The Sailors' which saw Franck and Delphine performing some classic slapstick whilst precariously balancing on boom, spinnaker pole, mast and halyards. An appreciative audience gave the show their 'thumbs-up'. Audience members gathered on the grass and deck of the Algoa Bay Yacht club to watch the free …

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Fresh fish on the PE Harbour – Featured Blog

Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Fresh fish on the PE Harbour: We've never been to the fish shops on the harbour to buy fresh fish but a Saturday or two ago, in search of finding something else to make for dinner than just the usual stuff, we decided to go and have a look.  We landed up in Fisherman Fresh (throw a left as you enter the harbour at the Baakens entrance and follow the signs).  An amazing selection of fresh and frozen fish and other seafoods and so much cheaper than our local supermarkets and the Fruit and Veg down the road from home. We ended …

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Harbour view from Humerail – Featured Blog

Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Harbour view from Humerail: I had to stop at the Spar in Humerail this morning and stopped to admire the view of the harbour from the parking area.  Some people wouldn't term this as a beautiful view but I like to call it an interesting view.  Unfortunately I didn't have my camera so a cell phone photo will have to do. Source: Port Elizabeth Daily Photo. Things to do in Port Elizabeth #Blogathon: Nine bloggers (seven of those based in PE) were asked to create posts about things to do in Port Elizabeth as part of the …

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Surfing the Harbour mouth – Featured Blog

Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Surfing the Harbour mouth: Ask anyone who lives and works up on the hills above the city centre about the lekker rights that break in the harbour mouth on a decent swell. Plenty of ou's will sit and gaze at the seemingly off-limit peelers just wondering what it would be like to surf them.Well, back in 2003 longboarder Steve McKechnie did just that. Steve took action instead of just wondering "what if" and arranged to surf the elusive Harbour Rights. Here's his story:"It was rather scary as not too much is known about the …

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Harbour porpoises are skilled hunters and eat almost constantly – Featured Blog

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Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Harbour porpoises are skilled hunters and eat almost constantly: Harbour porpoises have sometimes been described as ‘living in the fast lane.’ Being smaller than other cetaceans and living in cold northern waters means that the porpoises require a lot of energy to survive, making them prone to starvation. Now researchers have monitored harbour porpoises in the wild with tiny computers attached to them by […] Source: Sardine Run Port Elizabeth. 23/6/2012 – Humpback Whales breaching close to shore – Humpback Whale …

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Popular Dolphins

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And here I thought that Cat videos were the viral ticket of all time. Damn, I must be way off of the curve! Yesterday's most read article on the MyPE Facebook page was THIS ONE. I am thinking that maybe we should just shift Bayworld to ABYC in the harbour! By way of explanation: I posted this video - Cat Discovers Water first - and then the one you see above. The Dolphin video has had four times as many views as the Cat video. …

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Dolphins in PE Harbour – YouTube

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Curious dolphins play in the channel between the fishing boats and Algoa Bay Yachts moored in the Port of Port Elizabeth. Much to the delight of members and patrons braaing on the lawns. …

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Are we exchanging a mountain of manganese for scrap?

The proposed curbs on scrap metal shipments out of the country by the South African government are feared to threaten the very existence of the industry. The government had proposed punitive amendments to the price preference system governing scrap metal exports during December last year. As per the proposed system, scrap metal exporters in the country are first required to offer their stock to domestic consumers at a discount of 10%-30% to the export price. The administration has also complicated the export licensing procedures, with the aim of discouraging scrap metal …

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Accolades for Multimillion Rand upgrades to Port of Port Elizabeth

FAR-REACHING UPGRADE TO PE HARBOUR – Transnet National Ports Authority’s multimillion rand investment represents the first step towards a thriving boat building and maintenance hub for the city. TNPA Senior Project Manager Pieter-Ben van Rhijn, pictured left, said the innovative engineering services provided by AfriCoast Consulting Engineers and Haw & Inglis had maximised the long term value of the project. Pictured from left of Van Rhijn are AfriCoast’s Gerrie van de Merwe, Haw & Inglis’ Marius Matthee and AfriCoast’s JP Mulder. Photo: Mark West TRANSNET National Ports …

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Fish and chips at Struibaai Harbour – Featured Blog

Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Fish and chips at Struibaai Harbour by The Firefly Photo Files: I always think that the guys along the coast in the Western Cape are very fortunate because of the amount of fresh fish available to them from all the fishing harbours.  Whenever we get to travel in the province we like to go and have fish and chips from a local takeaway, usually overlooking the harbour and surrounds.  During December we were camping in the Overberg and did a daytrip from Gansbaai to Agulhas.  Somewhere in between the Damselfly …

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Panyiota K Discharges into PE Harbour

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Panayiota K, apparently emptying her bilges and holding tanks inside the port leaving a brown polluted slimy film on the surface of the water. Some scientists say that the presence of Red Tide in our bay can be traced to these 'foreign waters' being emptied in our bay. Silke and Rainer Schimpf (Sardine Run PE) took this photograph the day after the sinking of the Crayfishing boat Baratz off of Cape Recife. At 14h00, Thursday, 26th November, NSRI Port Elizabeth duty crew were activated by the Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) following a request for urgent assistance from the 29 …

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