Fairseas adds capacity along West and East African coasts

Cape Town-based Fairseas
International has increased
regional vessel capacity and
service regularity substantially
along the West and East coast of
Africa.
According to a spokesman,
the company is now operating a
regular semi-liner service utilising
up to six multipurpose vessels
in the West to East Africa port
range, providing regular, flexible
and reliable service connections
to all ports for breakbulk,
container and project cargoes and
bulk shipments .
The regional coastwise service
predominantly utilises selfoperated
tonnage from 5000 up
to 20000mt deadweight vessels,
all geared with heavy-lift capacity
suitable for moving project
cargoes and up to handy size
shipments of bulk commodities
in the Walvis Bay to Mombasa
range of ports, with charter
vessels for bulk commodities
operating further north and into
the Indian sub continent areas.
According to commercial
executive for the line, Pamela
Yerushalmy, the port range served
by Fairseas has been increased
to include on a regular basis
Pemba in northern Mozambique
and Mtwara situated in
southern Tanzania. Both
ports are increasingly gaining
recognition in the growing oil
and gas industry which is in its
exploration phase in the Cabo
Delgado Province, she said.
“The newly refurbished
Mtwara Port’s oil and gas
facility has been described as the
southern region’s development
key. Investors have invested over
$300 million on the oil and gas
supply base to support the first
oil and gas drilling in the deep
Tanzanian waters of the Indian
Ocean.”
Yerushalmy, who is based in
Johannesburg, said Fairseas also
provided direct services into and
out of these ports for all ports
in the Walvis Bay to Mombasa
range with through bill of lading
linkages to and from West Africa.
In addition there are convenient
transhipment opportunities
over Durban, Cape Town, Dar
es Salaam and Mombasa for
international oil and gas and other
cargoes.
The group is also increasing its
general project cargo activities
and is presently involved in
the Moma expansion project in
Northern Mozambique which
includes offshore ship to barge
transhipment operations, she
added.
“Our aim is to add value by
providing cargo interests with
efficient and cost effective sea
transport and intermodal solutions
along the African seaboard and
the Indian Ocean rim including
the Indian Ocean Island areas,”
she said. “Where appropriate,
landside logistics, barging and
lightering are dovetailed with
seafreight solutions.