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The International Maritime Organization’s recent reaffirmation of the Philippines’ place on its STCW “White List” is more than a bureaucratic checkbox. It is a hard-won validation of decades of institutional…
Kenya’s maritime sector confronts an uncomfortable paradox. Despite possessing approved training institutions, a functioning regulatory authority in the Kenya Maritime Authority (KMA), and formal recognition under the International Maritime Organization’s…
The pirates are back. Not as swashbuckling Hollywood caricatures, but as a tenacious, adaptive threat that never truly vanished from the waters off Somalia and the broader Western Indian Ocean…
The sea does not forgive complacency. For more than a decade, the waters off Somalia were treated as a solved problem. International naval patrols, private armed guards, and improved best…
The Institute of Maritime and Seafaring Studies at the Technical University of Mombasa (TUM) has taken a practical and welcome step forward. By dedicating the email address baharia@tum.ac.ke for seafarer…
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…
Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi’s call for practical reforms and genuine government-private sector partnership in Kenya’s maritime sector is welcome, necessary, and long overdue. Speaking at a private-sector roundtable in…
Container shipping is once again treating a genuine operational challenge as an excuse for opaque mark-ups. As drought and El Niño-driven restrictions force the Panama Canal Authority to lower draft…
The modernisation of Fumba Port is more than a construction project. It is a strategic declaration that Zanzibar is ready to reclaim control of its trade arteries, reduce costly dependence…