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In a modest video shared on April 1, 2025, Sputnik Africa announced a seemingly unremarkable development: Ethiopia plans to train seafarers for the global market. But beneath this terse headline…
For decades, maritime safety has been defined by hard hats, risk assessments, and the prevention of falls, collisions, and machinery failures. This remains necessary work. Yet the latest data from…
Russia’s shadow fleet is not a clever loophole; it is a brazen act of maritime predation. By weaponizing Africa’s regulatory weaknesses, Moscow has turned the continent’s shipping registries into instruments…
In late August 2026, the World Maritime University (WMU) Maritime Affairs Conference brought together the industry’s foremost minds in Malmö, Sweden, under a deceptively simple theme: Transforming Shipping in Practice.…
Ghana’s recent success in securing sea-time placements for a new cohort of cadets with Pacific International Lines (PIL) offers a timely and instructive mirror for Kenya. The Ghana Maritime Authority…
On the evening of March 6, 1987, the roll-on/roll-off ferry Herald of Free Enterprise slipped her berth at Zeebrugge, bound for Dover. Within minutes of clearing the harbor, she lay…
This week, more than a thousand delegates from nearly 180 countries, industry groups, and civil society organisations have gathered at the International Maritime Organization’s headquarters in London for the 22nd…
Elijah Mbaru’s recent visit to Kenya Shipyards Limited was more than a courtesy call. It was a signal that Kenya is ready to claim a larger role in the maritime…
The quiet arrival this morning of an MSC technical team at Kenya Utalii College’s Kilifi Campus marks more than a routine institutional courtesy call. Accompanied by MSC Regional Manager Capt.…
In an era when African infrastructure headlines are dominated by fanfare, delays, or debt controversies, Tanzania is executing one of the continent’s most consequential transport projects with remarkable understatement. Under…