Navigating our way towards a developed and updated maritime policy and regulatory regime that will position South Africa into...

SAMSA Training vessel The Agulhas intends to reignite minds of decision makers about the value of maritime utilising its asset to train young people and come up with an authentic South African Maritime Skills Development Programme with results that will accelerate creation of seafaring work opportunities.
The voyage will be in service of a contract that SAMSA secured with the Commonwealth, who sought to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee by staging an expedition to the Antarctic.
Maritime Safety Committee instigates historic change in the way international standards for ship construction are to be determined and implemented in the future with adoption of goal-based standards..
2011 World Maritime Day theme will be "Piracy: orchestrating the response".