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Original Post Date: 2003-11-18 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 11/18/2003 5:29:43 AM
Ship building company shuts & China gets the contract
Years of shipbuilding in the port of Durban came to an end yesterday when Southern African Shipyards threw in the towel over a tug order and closed its doors, retrenching 87 employees.
More than 200 people will be affected by the decision which comes after months of waiting for the National Ports Authority to award a contract to build two new tugs for the port of Ngqura (Coega) in the Eastern Cape.
The awarding of the contract has been postponed three times this year after the initial tender was cancelled last November (2002), since when the NPA has requested those bidding to hold prices firm to those quoted in January this year.
The NPA has declined to make any comment or give reasons for the delay, other than to complain to the Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) company involved with Southern African Shipyards when the matter was first reported to the media more than a month ago.
It is believed that one other bidder remains in contention for the contract, which is worth more than R100 million. This is an empowerment group without any known practical experience in shipbuilding, which has arranged to build the tugs in China.
Offshore benefit.
If the tugs are built in a foreign country most of the benefit will go offshore.
“The NPA did not owe us a living but we had every right to think that after having completed five tugs, on time and to the highest possible international standards, that a fully South African company with the necessary BEE content would be favourably treated. Sadly, that doesn’t seem to matter any more, as with the sea fishery patrol boats and naval vessels the authorities would seem to prefer spending the South African public’s money with foreign builders,” said a former SA Shipyard employee.
Jurgen Cobarg, general manager of SA Shipyards, said the Durban yard had spent about R8 million since April simply to keep its doors open in the hope, and expectation, that a contract would eventuate, but the kitty was now empty.
He said that negotiations would get under way immediately between the leaseholder and the NPA, which owns the property, over the land at Bayhead occupied by the closed shipyard. It is expected that advertisements will shortly appear offering the extensive property and buildings for lease.
Date: November 18, 2003
By Terry Hutson
Source: The Mercury
URL: http://www.themercury.co.za/index.php?fSectio…br>