A Professional Maritime Blog for Advancing Africa’s Maritime Industry
Kenya’s coxswain training curriculum sits at the intersection of two urgent national projects: professionalising the blue economy and stopping preventable deaths on Lake Victoria, other inland waters, and the Indian…
For centuries, the history of the Indian Ocean has been narrated as a story of Arab dhows, Persian merchants, Indian textiles, and Chinese porcelain. In this telling, East Africa appears…
The global maritime industry stands at an inflection point. Ships are evolving at a pace that traditional training frameworks were never designed to match. Alternative fuels, automation, cybersecurity demands, remote…
Moving freight roughly 3,000 kilometers from the Port of Durban to destinations in the Democratic Republic of Congo—whether the Copperbelt mining hubs around Kolwezi and Lubumbashi or broader Kinshasa-linked supply…
Bottom line up front: The recent presence of IRGC experts along Yemen’s Red Sea coast signals that Tehran’s support for the Houthis is shifting from arms transfers to infrastructure embedding.…
The CMA CGM Notre Dame, a 24,212 TEU liquefied natural gas (LNG) dual-fuel containership nearly 400 metres long and over 61 metres wide, is more than a floating warehouse. Delivered…
The African Harbour Masters Committee (AHMC) has issued a clear call: mark your calendars for 6–8 April 2027 at The Ravenala Attitude Hotel in Mauritius. Hosted by the Mauritius Ports…
Kenya has set a bold target under the Vijana Baharia Programme: train 35,000 seafarers, with 14,500 expected to secure sea-time opportunities and roughly 20,900 to be recruited or placed. The…
The Indian Ocean in 2026 is witnessing an unsettling return. Somali piracy is no longer the threat that international naval power supposedly suppressed to near extinction—it is back, and it…
The declaration of General Average (GA) on the CMA CGM Petra is not merely another casualty notice in the shipping press. It is a sharp reminder that the centuries-old principle…