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.