Nurdle pollution has a devastating effect on marine ecology and became the focus of the maritime world in May 2021 when the vessel X-Press Pearl caught fire off the west coast of Sri Lanka and spilled about 75 billion particles (or 1 680 tons of nurdles) into the ocean. This podcast series returns with an in-depth discussion between partners Jeremy Prain and Lana Stockton on the topic of plastic ‘nurdle’ spills from shipping containers.
Head of Ports, Transport and Logistics, Andrew Pike, joined CapeTalk’s Refilwe Moloto for a conversation on the adverse impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on South African ports.
An urgent application to declare an employer’s mandatory vaccination policy unlawful was struck off the court roll for lack of urgency
Continue readingJeremy Prain talks with Capt. Ann Till, Chief Vessel Operator at Ocean Infinity, about autonomous ships and her experience as a woman at sea.
Continue readingThe latest episode, hosted by Jeremy Prain is an interview with Dr Evert Kleynhans. They unveil the details of the u-boat campaigns off the coast of South Africa in 1942/43 during World War II; principally Operation Eisbar, which played out around the Cape of Good Hope, and discuss the Dr’s new book: Hitler’s Spies: Secret Agents and the Intelligence War in South Africa, in which he analyses the link between the u-boat campaigns and the pro-German spy network operating in Southern Africa during the war.
