A Professional Maritime Blog for Advancing Africa’s Maritime Industry
East Africa speaks confidently about the blue economy, regional integration, and Lake Victoria as a transport corridor. Governments talk about modern ferries, trade, tourism, ports, and safer movement. Yet beneath…
On 21 September 2026, the Kenya Maritime Authority (KMA) issued a public notice that, on its face, belongs to the routine choreography of maritime administration: adverse weather and sea conditions…
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…
The drowning of Ken Barasa Okomol, a Malaba South MCA aspirant, and his sister Cynthia Barasa, a legal advocate, on 12 September 2026 is a personal catastrophe that exposes deep,…
The quiet release of the MV Sward near Garacad this weekend should not be celebrated as a successful resolution. It should be read as a balance-sheet entry in a growing…
On the afternoon of September 2, 2026, the 286-tonne South Korean tugboat TNS Catcher capsized and sank while assisting a large container ship roughly 9 kilometers east of Oryukdo Island,…
For decades, maritime safety has been defined by hard hats, risk assessments, and the prevention of falls, collisions, and machinery failures. This remains necessary work. Yet the latest data from…
On the evening of March 6, 1987, the roll-on/roll-off ferry Herald of Free Enterprise slipped her berth at Zeebrugge, bound for Dover. Within minutes of clearing the harbor, she lay…
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,…
On August 18, 2026, the U.S.-flagged multipurpose cargo vessel SLNC York began flooding in the western Pacific while sailing in ballast from Honolulu to Naha, Okinawa. The 2010-built, 9,500-deadweight-ton Ro-Ro…