Events – Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers

Virtual Coffee Chat

Kiara Fraai — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:04:12 +0000

Join INSTITUTE OF CHARTERED SHIPBROKERS, SOUTH AFRICA for our next virtual Coffee Chat!

We will be discussing how to navigate identity, family and humanity at sea with our guest speaker, Captain Antoinette Keller

Guest Speaker: Antoinette Keller
Discussion Moderator: Captain Brendon Hawley CMMar – AFNI – FICS (Hon) – HCMM

Speakers Bio:
Captain Antoinette Keller is a pioneering South African maritime leader with over 30 years of experience, currently serving as the Principal Officer for the South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA) in Cape Town.

A true trailblazer, Antoinette made history in 2001 as South Africa’s first female Master Mariner, a feat that earned her recognition from former President Thabo Mbeki. Her career began at sea, progressing from a deck cadet to become Safmarine’s first female Chief Officer in 2000, with operational experience on tankers, mining, multi-purpose, general cargo and container vessels.

Transitioning ashore, she held roles as a Nautical Superintendent at Safmarine, Vessel Specialist with A.P. Moller – Maersk before joining SAMSA in 2011 as ship surveyor. In her current management role, she is accountable for statutory surveys, port state control, maritime training accreditation, and incident investigation. Her exceptional contribution to the sector was recognised in 2020 when she was awarded the SAMSA CEO Excellence Award.

A dedicated mentor and advocate for inclusion, Antoinette holds an Unlimited Master Mariner Certificate of Competency and a Postgraduate Diploma in Management Practice from the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business.

This event is open to ICS students, members, tutors, and supporters.

To register to join us for free on MS TEAMS please click the link below. For more information contact our offices at 031 824 1388 / ics@icssa.co.za

https://lnkd.in/dA5USNze

The Maritime Quiz Challenge

ICS South Africa — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 12:36:04 +0000

Follow this link to Register: https://event.webinarjam.com/register/43/n63p2u7g

ICS Quarterly Luncheon – April 2020

ICS South Africa — Sat, 15 Feb 2020 11:53:00 +0000

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Our first quarterly lunch for 2020 will be held during April. The date is still to be finalised and we are lucky to have as our speaker, Ms Ivana Surian, LLM Maritime Law student who will be speaking on the hot topic of the Low Sulphur cap.

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Cape Town Open Day – February 2020

ICS South Africa — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 11:40:00 +0000

The Cape Town chapter faced 2020, and the new decade, with a renewed enthusiasm that it hasn’t seen in a number of years. With the help of Daniel Ngubane (FICS) of DNOffshore, and Marcelle Bauermeister of Novamarine (SGM), we were able to have a successful Open Day.

Hesper Engineering and Novamarine (both part of SGM) sponsored our event, hosting us at their offices. Not only did they provide us with delicious snacks, but they also treated all who attended with a tour of their premises. Novamarine took us through all their divisions, which included their warehousing, chandling, fire safety and the survival departments. Hesper Engineering gave us a tour of their world class ship repair and innovations departments.

All in all, the event was enjoyed by everyone, and most importantly, we received interest from almost all who attended about signing up and starting on the road to becoming ICS Members.

If you’re ever in Cape Town and would like to know what we’re up to, please feel free to give us a call and we’ll be more than happy to meet up with you and help in any way we can.

Theo Scholiadis (FICS)
bluVerve Maritime Software
ICS Cape Town Chapter Head

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Johannesburg Open Day – February 2020

ICS South Africa — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 11:39:07 +0000

Alpha Shipping kindly made their offices available for the Open Day which was hosted by student representative, Byron Vather.

Richards Bay Open Day – February 2020

ICS South Africa — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 11:37:56 +0000

This event was hosted by Amanda Harrison FICS, Chapter Head and committee member Gail Jansen van Vuuren MICS. Comment from Richards Bay Chapter Head, Amanda Harrison FICS.

It was decided at rather short notice, that Richards Bay chapter would host Open Day in Richards Bay, from 1 to 3 pm on 05th February 2020.

Regrettably our ICS Open Day fell exactly into the new load-shedding time schedule for our area.

A few potential students came in to the office to learn more about the Institute of Chartered Ship Brokers, view books and collect application forms.

We also had new heightened interest from staff members. We are confident that application forms from the Richards Bay area will be sent in the next few days/weeks.

In closing, overall a positive session for the prospective students.

Durban Open Day – February 2020

ICS South Africa — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 11:29:00 +0000

Our new Chairperson, Catherine Moodie, started off in a positive way by inspiring our South African Chapters to hold Open Days as well as the Durban office. We held successful a Open Day on 5th February 2020. Durban Branch held theirs at the Royal Natal Yacht Club. This was attended by potential new students from the industry as well as representatives from the Ethekwini Maritime Cluster and Durban University of Technology. Both represent very useful allies in promoting the ICS and its courses to their members/students. A presentation was given by our Chairperson Catherine Moodie. Vice-Chairman, Durand Naidoo, was unfortunately unable to attend due to prior travel arrangements. Despite a relatively small attendance we were still able to garner a few enrolments from those who attended.

We were also fortunate to have a demonstration by Nova Marine (SGM Technical) of inflation of a life-raft as well as the use of life jackets. This provided much interest with plenty of useful information provided by the Durban representatives of Nova Marine.

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2018/2019 ICS Prize-giving

ICS South Africa — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 11:17:29 +0000

This event was held at the Royal Natal Yacht Club on 4th December 2019 and was well attended by prize-winners, sponsors, students, members and guests. We were fortunate that a number of our students travelled from Cape Town and Johannesburg to attend the event.

Our guest speaker for the day was Ms Zenzile Gwamanda of the Ethekwini Maritime Cluster, who spoke on ‘The Importance of the Relationship between Academia and the Maritime Industry: An EMC perspective in the development of human capital in the industry’.

Photos from the prize giving

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Open Day 2019

ICS South Africa — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 20:35:20 +0000

We will be hosting an Open Day on Tuesday, 29^th January 2019. Details of location and time to be advised.

Annual Price Giving & Year-end Function 2018

ICS South Africa — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 09:05:29 +0000

This was held at the Royal Natal Yacht Club on 15^th November with a best-ever turnout of 84. We had a healthy mix of Fellows, Members, Guests and students attend where prizes were handed out to our students who achieved the highest marks in their particular subject.

The twelve prizes were sponsored as always by our generous sponsors in the shipping and legal industry.

Our guest of honour and guest speaker was Durand Naidoo (M.I.C.S.), Managing Director of Linsen Nambi Bunkers who attended with his co-directors Thuso Mhlambi and Vanessa Naidoo. Durand spoke of his journey from university to shipping clerk and to becoming co-owner, with Thuso, of the first black-owned ship-owning company in South Africa.

It was an interesting talk providing motivation to our students on what can be accomplished if you have a dream and stay focused.