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On Monday, the Port of Mombasa did something deceptively simple and quietly consequential: it set a new internal benchmark for container discharge. A coordinated team of vessel planners, crane operators,…
In the fraught history of Africa’s engagement with global financial institutions, few episodes crystallize the prevailing contradictions as sharply as the recent tension between the World Bank and Aliko Dangote’s…
Kenya’s maritime sector is at a defining moment. The new Cabotage Regulations under the Merchant Shipping Act (Cap 389) have finally given legal teeth to the principle that our waters—from…
The scene is classic State House theatre: the polished mahogany desk bearing the Kenyan coat of arms, the national flag standing sentinel, and officials in crisp suits bent over documents…
Seven of the world’s most efficient container ports are Chinese—and six of the ten largest by throughput typically are as well. This dominance is not destiny or sheer scale alone,…
Kenya’s maritime sector has long languished as a peripheral afterthought in national economic planning—something that happens in Mombasa while the real action unfolds in Nairobi’s boardrooms and industrial parks. That…
Today at State House Nairobi, President William Samoei Ruto presides over the formalisation of a landmark trilateral cooperation agreement between the County Government of Mombasa, Mombasa Free Zone Limited, and…
Yesterday’s meeting between the Joint Seafarers Committee and the Kenya Maritime Authority (KMA) was far more than a routine consultation. It represented a necessary recalibration in a sector brimming with…
For more than two decades, Nigeria collected a 2 percent surcharge on cabotage trade and watched the funds accumulate while its indigenous shipowners starved for capital. The Cabotage Vessel Financing…
On 31 August 2026, two Filipino seafarers lost their lives when the vessel Sidr came under attack while transiting the Strait of Hormuz. Within days, the Philippines’ Department of Migrant…