A fast-track training programme has seen 33 ship-to-shore crane operators qualifying on cranes in the new Walvis Bay container terminal. The simulator-based training, conducted by Liebherr Africa, would normally be spaced over a period of two years, but was completed in five months, according to the company’s general manager for Africa, Lukas Sturn Acting Namport CEO, Kavin Harry, said the company had invested R9 million in the training of Namibians. The Port Authority aims to increase the current 26 moves per hour to 30 in the very near future as it works towards becoming Africa’s express hub to international markets, he says.