Vessel & Rig Agent: Port of Durban

The Port of Durban is the largest and busiest port in South Africa, a high-volume import and export gateway moving fruit, grain, sugar, fertiliser, chemicals and general cargo alongside its container and bulk traffic. From its Yellowwood Park office Afrishore acts as full vessel and rig agent here for tankers, bulk carriers, container ships, rigs, OSVs, PSVs and AHTS, handling port clearance and port-authority liaison, immigration and crew changes, husbandry, bunkering coordination and project and abnormal cargo.

Durban also carries one of the largest ship-repair capabilities on the coast. The Prince Edward Graving Dock takes vessels up to 352.04 m through a 33.52 m entrance with 12.56 m on the sill, and can be divided into two independent sections of 206.9 m and 138.68 m for simultaneous dockings, with a privately operated floating dock handling smaller tonnage alongside. Afrishore coordinates the port-authority, repair-yard, classification-society and crew interfaces around the docking window so each vessel clears the dock on schedule.

Run alongside Afrishore's west- and south-coast licensed network and the Walvis Bay base, the Durban office extends the same single point of accountability across the East African seaboard, toward the Mozambique Channel.