A Professional Maritime Blog for Advancing Africa’s Maritime Industry
In the coastal town of Malindi, where the Vasco da Gama Pillar stands as a monument to 15th-century exploration, a modern institution is attempting to rewrite Kenya’s relationship with the…
Kenya’s ports are no longer peripheral players in global trade. Mombasa remains East Africa’s busiest gateway, Lamu is steadily building capacity, and coastal traffic is rising—characterised by larger vessels, tighter…
Africa supplies only about 4% of the world’s seafarers. That stark figure, highlighted in a recent post by the African Maritime Council and corroborated by BIMCO/ICS data and analyses from…
When seasoned industry practitioners step into a room with port managers to unpack the mechanics of international trade, the organisation of shipping, and the evolving dynamics of tramp and liner…
In a quiet but consequential ceremony in Mombasa, Bandari Maritime Academy (BMA) and CMA CGM, the French shipping and logistics giant, formalised a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that does more…
As Africa’s ports expand and the blue economy gains momentum, a quiet crisis threatens to undercut the ambition. The Western Indian Ocean (WIO) region—stretching from Somalia and Kenya through Tanzania,…
When Ambassador Nancy Karigithu paid a courtesy call on Wilhelmsen Ship Management and met two Kenyan seafarers preparing to join the same vessel—one a new hire, the other a returning…
Africa has no shortage of young people eager to go to sea. Maritime academies from Nigeria to Ghana, Kenya to South Africa turn out graduates year after year. Yet across…
On Monday, October 19, 2026, Eastaway Ship Management—the ship-owning and management arm of the X-Press Feeders Group, the world’s largest independent container feeder carrier—visited the Regional Maritime University (RMU) in…
In late 2025, dozens of maritime professionals from West and Central Africa—including Ghana—gathered in Jakarta for intensive courses that rarely make front-page news. Funded by Indonesia at roughly US$1.1–1.3 million,…