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Duration: 1980 - 1991?
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Shipping Research Bureau (SRB) was founded in 1980 by the Holland Committee on Southern Africa (KZA) and the Working Group Kairos, two Dutch anti-apartheid groups that were active in the campaign for the withdrawal of Shell from South Africa and the promotion of national and international oil embargoes against the apartheid regime. The SRB monitored violations of the oil embargo against South Africa by tracking the movement of oil tankers. The SRB pressured oil companies, transporters, and oil producing states to end sales and deliveries of oil to South Africa. The SRB also pressured national governments and international bodies to adopt relevant measures such legislation banning the involvement of their nationals and companies in the oil trade with South Africa. Two European countries, Denmark and Norway, adopted laws banning the transport of crude oil from anywhere in Danish/Norwegian tankers. SRB produced numerous reports on oil deliveries and the companies and countries involved. The United Nation General Assembly adopted resolutions in support of an oil embargo and in 1986 established Intergovernmental Group to Monitor the Supply and Shipping of Oil and Petroleum Products to South Africa. The SRB played a key role in providing information to the Intergovernmental Group to Monitor the Supply and Shipping of Oil and Petroleum Products to South Africa. Directors of the SRB included Janwillem Rouweler (1981-1985), Jaap Woldendorp (1985-1991) and Richard Hengeveld (1991ff).

Organizational Archive

Title: Shipping Research Bureau
Time Span: 1980 - 1995
Media: 10 meters
Description: The main archive of the SRB is scheduled to be placed at International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. A complete set of SRB publications are available at the Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa (NiZA) in Amsterdam and the University of the Western Cape-Robben Island Mayibuye Archive in Cape Town.