FTW ONLINE LAST WEEK'S TOP STORIES

Logistics major
makes senior
appointment
Maria du Preez has
been appointed business
development director
of Bidvest Panalpina
Logistics. Her portfolio
includes sales, marketing
and solution development.
SA and Maputo ports
to collaborate
A Memorandum of
Understanding between
Mozambique and SA port
authorities was due to be
signed in Johannesburg on
Monday.
R1.3m worth of dagga
‘accidentally’ seized
A man was arrested and
over 685kg of dagga, with
an estimated street value
of R1.3 million, seized
near Uitenhage, Eastern
Cape.
Navis restart to cure
the system freeze?
Transnet Port Terminals
did a national Navis
system restart between
22h00 and midnight on
Friday night, hopefully to
address the system freeze
issue which has bugged
the seafreight industry for
most of this month.
Armed pirates abduct
oil tanker crew in
West Africa
Armed pirates attacked
an oil products tanker off
the coast of Nigeria in
West Africa and abducted
an unknown number
of crew, according to
security sources quoted
by Reuters.