A Professional Maritime Blog for Advancing Africa’s Maritime Industry
On Thursday, 3 December 2026, from 8 a.m. at its oceanfront campus in Mombasa, Bandari Maritime Academy will host its first graduation ceremony. The chief guest is Hon. Hassan Ali…
Kenya is living through another painful season of school unrest. Dormitories burn. Property is destroyed. Young lives are lost or permanently scarred. The May 2026 fire at Utumishi Girls Academy…
The African Maritime Council’s recent observation is blunt and timely: artificial intelligence is already reshaping vessel navigation, port management, maritime security, and fishing surveillance. For Africa, the real question is…
Five seafarers died, and Africa’s maritime workers are still treated as an afterthought. At 07:42 on 30 September 2026, about 47 nautical miles south of Mossel Bay, a man fell…
When Capt. Talib Mohammed, Director of the Institute of Maritime and Seafaring Studies at the Technical University of Mombasa (TUM), announced a Memorandum of Understanding with Constanta Maritime University in…
At the IAPH World Ports Conference 2026, Kenya Ports Authority CEO Capt. William Ruto outlined a paradigm shift in African maritime strategy. The future of the continent’s trade will not…
The recent partnership talks between Kenya’s Bandari Maritime Academy and French education officials signal a new era of international cooperation. But for Africa to truly solve the global seafarer shortage,…
Maritime education and training institutions across Africa are being asked to deliver skilled seafarers at a scale and quality that matches the continent’s growing stake in the global shipping industry.…
Kenya is once again reaching for an oil prize it has chased for more than a decade. The decision to revive a long-dormant crude pipeline linking the Turkana oil fields…
Bandari Maritime Academy (BMA) has announced that a team of its officers is participating in the Kenya Blue Economy Skills Training (KBEST 12) programme on Open, Distance and eLearning (ODeL)…