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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…
The docking of MV Da Yang at the Port of Lamu this week, laden with 2,930 metric tons of heavy machinery, is more than a routine port call. It is…
Aliko Dangote’s latest promise is easy to cheer and hard to cash. Speaking as President William Ruto toured the Lekki refinery in Lagos, days before a scheduled September 30 groundbreaking…
In a packed hall at the Panari Hotel in Nairobi, more than 170 members of the Shippers Council of Eastern Africa (SCEA) and industry stakeholders recently convened for a high-stakes…
Kenya stands on the cusp of becoming an oil producer. After more than a decade of false starts, appraisal wells, and abandoned pipeline dreams, the South Lokichar Basin in Turkana…
The recent contract signing between Bandari Maritime Academy (BMA) and Kenya Shipyards Limited (KSL) for the delivery of the training vessel MV My Dream is more than a procedural milestone.…
The arrival of the GW70 onshore drilling rig at Mombasa’s Kilindini Port on 25 September 2026 is more than a logistical milestone. It is the most concrete signal yet that…
The oil products tanker Sibu 1 spent roughly five weeks as a floating hostage off the Somali coast before Puntland’s maritime police freed it on September 25. Six armed men…
Kenya’s Lamu Port is a textbook case of ambitious infrastructure colliding with the unforgiving economics of global shipping. The first three berths, built at a cost of roughly Sh40 billion,…
On Friday, a cargo ship named Transit Sedanka docked at Mombasa’s Kilindini Port carrying more than steel and machinery. It carried the tangible symbol of a 14-year national aspiration: the…