Table Bay harbour is now not the only port in Cape Town due for an upgrade, it was reported over the weekend that 13 harbours in Cape Town and the greater Western Cape will be getting multi-million rand facelifts.
The aim of the upgrades is to provide more job opportunities while at the same time making the harbours more pedestrian-friendly and productive. Development will start imminently and will continue until 2018 – with an estimated cost of R395 million involved.
Harbours in line for this upgrade are:
Hout Bay
St Helena Bay
Hermanus
Pepper Bay
Saldanha Bay
Gansbaai
Lambert’s Bay
Kalk Bay
Laaiplek Bay
Gordon’s Bay
Arniston
Struisbaai
Stilbaai
Read more here.
Achmat Cappy Johnstone
Daniel Bekker
Reyaan Gierdien
they jobs will be only until 2018, but the meter taxi drivers who’s been driving people in the harbor for more then 50 yrs will be loosing the jobs forever !!
Way overdue we can’t have ships waiting to refuel we need to look at our ports as a major source of income.
Veryan Bell
Hope that this includes the fishing harbours run by the Department of Agriculture Forest & Fisheries. There are more than 30 sunken trawlers in these harbours, more than 10 in Hout Bay alone which makes these harbours useless. There is only one slipway on the coast which can be used for repair work. The longer these wrecks remain in the water the more expensive to remove them and the less chance of recovering cost from salvage. Another government run fiasco.
I thought they were left there intentionally U0001f628
Nope, most were sunk by accident but the owners have just walked away because they can’t afford the salvage costs or because they weren’t insured. The problem is that most of these wrecks are alongside the quayside preventing other ships from docking.