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Each morning, as giant container vessels edge cautiously alongside the quays of the Port of Mombasa, they bring more than steel boxes filled with goods. They carry evidence of Kenya’s…
The ocean may appear limitless, but its resources are not. For generations, Africa’s coastal communities have depended on the sea for food, employment, cultural identity and economic survival. Yet beneath…
When Elijah Mbaru, Chief Executive Officer of the Kenya Ships Agents Association (KSAA), addressed a logistics conference in Nairobi recently, he issued a wake-up call that no player in Kenya’s…
For generations, the Indian Ocean has been the lifeblood of Kenya’s coastal communities. Yet, for all its abundance, the people who brave its waters daily remain paradoxically tethered to poverty.…
The waters off the Horn of Africa are once again a hunting ground. After nearly a decade of relative calm, Somali piracy has re-emerged as a material threat to commercial…
What began as an internet meme—a magnifying glass hovering over the Kenya Revenue Authority logo, paired with images of congested Mombasa port—has crystallised into a legitimate national crisis. This time,…
The courtesy call by South Korean Ambassador Kang Hyung-shik on KPA CEO Captain William Ruto this week was more than diplomatic protocol. It was a reaffirmation that the Port of…
The arrival of Rwanda’s first 40,000-metric-tons government-backed fuel shipment at Tanzania’s Port of Tanga is far more than a routine logistics update. For a landlocked nation that imports 100% of…
For millions of Kenyan households, the cost of cooking has become a painful barometer of the country’s economic strain. The price of a 13-kilogram LPG cylinder, which frequently oscillates between…
The Port of Mombasa has been the lifeblood of East African commerce, a maritime gateway through which the region’s economic aspirations flow. Yet for years, this critical artery has been…