Tag: St Helena Government

• Saturday, July 19th 2025 - 11:11 UTC

  A year from Argos Georgia tragedy, MAIB releases interim report which cost 13 lives

  

  UK’s Marine Accident Investigation Branch, MAIB, released this week an interim report on the investigation of the foundering of the long liner Argos Georgia, approximately 190 nautical miles east of Port Stanley, Falkland Islands, with the loss of 13 lives, 22 July 2024.

• Sunday, September 5th 2021 - 05:17 UTC

  Google's fiber optic cable landed on St Helena

  

  Google’s new submarine cable system, Equiano, which will connect Africa and Europe, will make its first landfall later this week – on the remote island of St Helena in the South Atlantic.

• Monday, April 25th 2016 - 05:53 UTC

  RMS St Helena on sale; she will make a farewell to the port of London

  

  Helena Line has announced that it is to withdraw the Passenger Cargo Royal Mail Ship St Helena from service in July 2016 and has appointed London ship broker CW Kellock & Co Ltd to handle her sale.

• Friday, April 15th 2016 - 05:04 UTC

  St Helena reaches to the world: 21 May airport official opening with presence of Prince Edward

  

  The Government of St Helena has announced that the official opening of the island's new airport is set to take place on 21 May 2016, in the presence of HRH The Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex. For the British Overseas Territory island in mid Atlantic and with an only monthly sea link, the airport means a dream come true, and both the St Helena and UK governments hope that this will lead to eventual financial self-sustainability.

• Monday, May 4th 2015 - 20:12 UTC

  St Helena airport on track: runway 70% completed; grooving and sealing begins

  

  The government of the British Overseas Territory St Helena has given an update on the construction of the airport which is expected to become operational sometime in 2016, and which continues according to original plans.

• Saturday, March 21st 2015 - 05:07 UTC

  St Helena names South African airline preferred bidder for when airport opens next year

  

  A South African airline operator has been named the favorite to provide an air service for St Helena when its first airport opens early in 2016. But Comair, which also operates budget flights as kulula.com, will only offer flights to Johannesburg in South Africa, despite strong calls for a direct service to Europe.