2020 February – Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers

News from London

ICS South Africa — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 12:00:00 +0000

November exam results

We’re delighted that the pass rate for the November 2019 exams was nearly 65%, which makes it the most successful exam session we’ve had in the last decade.

We are happy to report that the Durban Branch and other SA Chapters have been invited to join in the current Live Tutorials offered by London Courses still on offer:

27 February 2020: Laytime (Everyone’s favourite!)
19 March 2020: Hague, Hague-Visby and Hamburg Rules
16 April 2020: Preparing for Exams / Exam Techniques.

Interested? Contact us: ics@icssa.co.za / 031-2072022

March 2020 Students’ Prep Weekend

ICS South Africa — Sat, 15 Feb 2020 11:58:00 +0000

This will take place at the Chantecler Hotel, Botha’s Hill just outside Durban from 13th and 15th March. With some of our tutors flying in for the event (others just flying up the notorious Field’s and Botha’s Hills) we are sure that all the students attending will make the most of this opportunity to network with other students and to gain clarification and knowledge made available by the presence of our Tutors.

May 2020 Exams

ICS South Africa — Sat, 15 Feb 2020 11:56:00 +0000

These will be held in all centres in South Africa from the 11-21st May. So far we have 18 students registered to write 32 subjects.

Hopefully not many will be rewriting their November 2019 exams…

A reminder to our students that the exam questions are set from the syllabus to be found on the London Website, not only from the ICS course work. Knowledge garnered outside of the course work is also welcomed.

We wish our students good luck in these exams! Remember – the harder you study, the luckier you’ll be !!

November 2019 Exam

ICS South Africa — Sat, 15 Feb 2020 11:54:00 +0000

ICS had 19 students writing 36 exams between 18th and 28rd November. These were held in various centres in South Africa including Durban, Richards Bay, Johannesburg and Cape Town. Our students were generally optimistic about the exams.

Exam Results

These will be available to all of our students on the London website www.ics.org.uk from the 27th February 2020

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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Vice-Chairman’s Visit to London

ICS South Africa — Sat, 15 Feb 2020 11:49:00 +0000

Vice-Chairman Durand Naidoo took the opportunity to visit the ICS Head Office in London during a recent business trip. During his visit they discussed membership, the South African Maritime Industry and the South African Branch’s plans to partner with local accredited training providers in an attempt to make the courses more appealing to Corporates.

At the time of his visit the November exam papers were in the process of being marked in the London office ahead of the results being published on Thursday, 27th February. Concern was raised about the high failure rate but at the same time the importance of maintaining the high quality of the PQE.

The success of the Understanding Shipping course was also discussed.

L-R : Robert Hill (ICS Membership), ICS SA Durand Naidoo, Matt Gilbert (ICS Head of Business and Partnerships)

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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