A Professional Maritime Blog for Advancing Africa’s Maritime Industry
Tanzania’s dual maritime legal framework has created a structural vulnerability that now damages the nation’s international standing, endangers seafarers, and raises costs for legitimate shipping. The Merchant Shipping Act governs…
Britain’s maritime industry has long recognised a simple truth: competent seafarers are forged not through academic theory alone, but through structured, practical vocational education that mirrors the realities of life…
For years, the story of African maritime security has been written elsewhere. International navies patrol African waters. Foreign consultants advise African governments. Distant capitals determine which threats merit attention and…
Kenya’s ambition to become a reliable supplier of seafarers and a Blue Economy hub hinges on the quality and international credibility of its Maritime Education and Training (MET) institutions. Bandari…
The International Maritime Organization’s recent reaffirmation of the Philippines’ place on its STCW “White List” is more than a bureaucratic checkbox. It is a hard-won validation of decades of institutional…
Kenya’s maritime sector confronts an uncomfortable paradox. Despite possessing approved training institutions, a functioning regulatory authority in the Kenya Maritime Authority (KMA), and formal recognition under the International Maritime Organization’s…
The pirates are back. Not as swashbuckling Hollywood caricatures, but as a tenacious, adaptive threat that never truly vanished from the waters off Somalia and the broader Western Indian Ocean…
The sea does not forgive complacency. For more than a decade, the waters off Somalia were treated as a solved problem. International naval patrols, private armed guards, and improved best…
The Institute of Maritime and Seafaring Studies at the Technical University of Mombasa (TUM) has taken a practical and welcome step forward. By dedicating the email address baharia@tum.ac.ke for seafarer…
In an industry that moves over 80% of global trade by volume, the line between a routine port call and a multimillion-dollar disaster often comes down to a few ropes,…