13 nov namib times e-edition

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SERVING THE COASTAL COMMUNITY SINCE 1958 NO 6889 FRIDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2020 Tel: +264 64 - 205854 / +264 64 - 461866 /Fax: +264 64 - 204813 / 064 - 461824 / Website: www.namibtimes.net

New generation “smart salt trucks” soon introduced for Walvis Bay Walvis Bay Salt Holdings announced this week a new generation of salt trucks would be commissioned by 2021, to haul bulk salt between the salt mine south of Walvis Bay and the port of Walvis Bay. Up to 700 000 tons of bulk salt are transported annually. The new fleet of smart trucks (officially known as the A - Double Side tipper truck) would be introduced by Unitrans Namibia, the official transport contractor for Walvis Bay Salt Holdings. Walvis Bay Salt Holdings will become the first company in Africa to introduce these smart trucks to its operations. The new trucks are twenty seven metres long (the current fleet of interlink trucks are twenty five metres long), but is drastically more

efficient in that it has less bearing on the road, a wider turn circle, high rollover stability and less salt spillage. The smart truck has almost double the load capacity of the current fleet of interlink trucks and would haul a total of 64 tons in one go. The drastic improvement in load capacity will ensure the current daily sorties between the salt pans and the port of Walvis Bay would be reduced from a

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Fishrot vessel “Heinaste” sold to Tunacor Group

Massive oil rig to dock in port on Sunday The semi-submersible oil rig “Sapura Berani” is en-route to Walvis Bay and is expected to dock at berth number one in the port of Walvis Bay on Sunday morning (15 November 2020). The vessel is scheduled to stay alongside for two weeks for minor repair and maintenance work. That is part of the preparations before the rig departs for a drilling contract in Ghana.

Arandis shooter to defend his case with State legal aid The alleged Arandis double murderer, Ernst Lichtenstrasser (59), has to fork out N$350 as payment to secure State legal aid for his double murder trial.

The midwater trawl vessel “Heinaste”, which was arrested late in 2019 by Namibia’s Attorney-General, following the #Fishrot scandal, has been sold to Tunacor Group for approximately N$275 million. The money will remain deposited into a State protected fund, pending the outcome of the criminal trial faced by the #Fishrot accused. In the last months of 2019 an international scandal was uncovered where Namibian fishing quotas were dished out to the Icelandic seafood giant Sanjeri International in return for bribes. By November of 2019 the then Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Bernhardt Esau, and Continues on page 2

Lichtenstrasser is accused of having gunned down the Director of the Namibia Institute for Mining and Technology (NIMT), Eckhart Mueller (72), and his Deputy Director, Heimo Hellwig (60), at the NIMT campus at Arandis early on the morning of 15 April last year. Lichtenstrasser, who worked as a lecturer for NIMT at the time, was allegedly unhappy with his transfer from the NIMT campus at Tsumeb to Keetmanshoop. Lichtenstrasser allegedly lurked in the dark near the entrance of the main entrance of NIMT at Arandis on that fateful morning and gunned down Mueller and Hellwig as they arrived in one vehicle from Swakopmund. He is further accused of having concealed the murder weapon afterwards. Lichtenstrasser faces two counts of murder, obstruction of justice, and a series of fire-arm related offences. He remains in custody and his pre-trial hearing is scheduled to start on 23 November in the Windhoek High Court.

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