Vessel & Rig Agent: Port of Cape Town

Afrishore runs its Cape Town agency from an office in Woodstock, holding its own port agency licence at the Port of Cape Town. From here Afrishore acts as full vessel and rig agent – for rigs, drillships, OSVs, PSVs, AHTS, tankers, FPSOs in transit and cargo ships – giving operators a permanent, accountable local team at one of South Africa's busiest repair, project-cargo and offshore-support ports, with Cape Town International Airport close by for crew and time-critical freight.

Cape Town does not wait, and Afrishore's local team is built around that. Afrishore handles port clearance and port-authority liaison, immigration and crew changes, dry docking and repairs coordination, husbandry, bunkering, project and abnormal cargo and full mobilisation/demobilisation – worked through tight repair-quay and dry-dock windows and complex immigration without dropping the schedule.

Dry docking is where Afrishore's Cape Town team earns its keep. The port's two graving docks and syncrolift shiplift (full dimensions below) take anything from an OSV to a drillship, semi-submersible or the largest tankers and bulk carriers on the coast – but the value is in coordinating the docking. Afrishore has run complex ones here, including the simultaneous docking of the Titan floating dock for the Port of Réunion, GH Discovery for United Offshore Support and Normand Energy for Solstad, holding the port-authority, ship-repair yard, classification-society survey and crew interfaces together around each docking window so every vessel cleared the dock on schedule.

Beyond vessel agency, Afrishore is a Cape Town logistics company and freight forwarder for the offshore and project-cargo sector – sea, air and road freight, customs clearance, bonded warehousing, cross-border transport and technical procurement, all routed through the Port of Cape Town and Cape Town International Airport. Operators and rig owners use the same accountable Afrishore team for agency, logistics and freight forwarding at Cape Town, which removes the hand-off seams that normally cost time on a fast schedule.

That integrated model is what holds Afrishore's Cape Town schedules together – the Dock Titan heavy-lift to Réunion, rig anchorage, PSV and OSV calls, the 2Africa subsea cable-landing staging and the Oceaneering subsea grout-bag export, each run as one job from a single point of accountability.