Paper Certificates Cannot Keep a Port Safe
TUM IMSS’s Seafarers Training Portal is a credibility system, not just a convenience app Mombasa has always sold itself as Kenya’s maritime city. The Technical University of Mombasa’s Institute of…
Shipping’s Once-in-a-Generation Windfall: When Geopolitics and Inefficiency Collide
The global shipping market has entered territory that even veteran operators struggle to comprehend. Clarksons’ ClarkSea Index, the industry’s broadest earnings benchmark, has posted a third consecutive all-time high at…
East Africa’s Port Race Is No Longer About Who Has the Biggest Quay. It Is About Who Owns the Hinterland.
The African Maritime Council’s recent snapshot is useful — and incomplete. Mombasa handled 45.45 million tonnes in 2025. Dar es Salaam moved 27.7 million tonnes in FY2024/25. Lamu processed about…
Mombasa’s Record July is Real. The Composition of That Record is the Story Kenya Shouldn’t Miss.
Mombasa Port exported 517,131 tonnes in July 2026 — the highest monthly export figure on record and a 21.3 percent increase over the 426,164 tonnes shipped in July 2025. Total…
Hapag-Lloyd and DP World’s African Bet: Capacity, Corridors, and the Real Test of Continental Trade Growth
When a major global carrier announces it expects to move more than one million TEU across Africa in a single year, and pairs that ambition with a deeper terminal partnership…
Lamu Port and the Dangote Refinery: Fifty Years After the First Study, the Real Test Begins
The question is no longer whether the site was right. It is whether Kenya will finish the corridor that makes the port matter—and whether KPA will sell it from Addis…
Mombasa vs Lamu: Why Scale, Ownership, and Markets Decide Refining Futures
Kenya once had a refinery. It was small, aging, state-dominated, and ultimately uncompetitive. The Kenya Petroleum Refineries Limited (KPRL) facility in Mombasa, built in 1963 with a nameplate capacity of…
Upskilling Kenya’s Seafarers: A Practical Step Toward Real Employability
On Friday, SUK Chairman Capt. Peter Munga, accompanied by senior officials of the Seafarers Union of Kenya and the joint committee of seafarers, toured the National Industrial Training Institute. The…
Harmonizing the Helm: Why Africa’s New Regional Coxswain Standards Could Transform Blue Economy Safety and Opportunity
Across the inland lakes, coastal waters, and river systems of Eastern, Southern, and Northern Africa, thousands of small vessels carry passengers, fish, goods, and livelihoods every day. Yet the people…
Sequencing Is Everything: Why Africa’s Maritime Ambitions Will Live or Die by Cabotage, Not Classrooms
Kenya’s recent hosting of the 12th Extraordinary Meeting of the MOESNA Coordination Committee in Mombasa was presented as another milestone in regional cooperation. Official statements rightly celebrated progress on two…