Chief harbour master weighs anchor

After a four year period
as Transnet chief harbour
master, Captain Mike
Brophy, has retired. In
2006 he succeeded Captain
Eddie Bremner as the
country’s chief harbour
master after a career lasting
more than 30 years with
Transnet and a career at sea
before that.
Brophy hails from the
small Irish village of
Crosshaven and went to sea
as a young lad with Irish
Shipping, before rising
in rank and transferring
to other companies and
eventually to Safmarine,
which brought him into
contact with South Africa,
a country he says he fell in love with as soon as he saw it.