Retired containers create resource centre for grape industry

Capespan and Maersk Line have extended their shipping partnership well beyond the trade and transport arena with the recent launch of an educational resource centre for the children of the Namibian Grape Company employees. A joint venture by the two companies, the 120 m2 centre will be used during the grape harvesting period to ensure that workers’ children are in a safe and happy environment while their parents are at work. The line’s social projects have predominantly been focused on the educational needs within the Southern Africa region. It has invested and deployed in excess of 8 000 retired containers for education centres and crèches in previously disadvantaged communities. Adding an environmental stamp, each CSI project will be accompanied by local tree-planting initiatives and Aussenkehr in Namibia will be one of the first with more than 100 trees to be planted at the centre as part of this initiative.