SALCS exists in name only right now

'Negotiations on the go' ALAN PEAT THE BLACK owned shipping line, SA Liner Container Services (SALCS), still exists as a company name – “but it’s dormant at the moment,” said MD Ian Wicks. Wicks is still busy tendering for business, but the negotiations currently on the go are “very sensitive”, he told FTW. The line started up its Europe-South Africa service in February last year, but investor problems saw its charter - the brand new 750TEU vessel MV Encounter from Dutch short-sea company JR Shipping BV – being withdrawn by the owners. Alternative slot-charter arrangements were announced – designed to fill in until new charter vessels were organised. But these expectations gradually faded, along with the search for new investors.