The creation of Kenya’s National Maritime Transport Policy (NMTP) has greatly advanced, Maritime Principal Secretary Nancy Karigithu informed. To create this policy, the country’s Ministry of Transport organised a four-day workshop to get technical assistance from the IMO in establishing this policy.
The main target of this workshop was to raise awareness regarding how important NMTP is, and gather government ministries, agencies and other stakeholders, to have a meaningful dialogue in order to set out the basis for the integration of maritime policies into the country’s development plans.
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The maritime sector in Kenya has many actors, who are responsible for different sectors of operations, management, and policy formulation. Namely it includes more than 13 sectors, 15 sub-sectors and 87 different activities that are all interconnected. This means that a decision in one may affect the performance of another.
Commenting on this, Nancy Karigithu said that no matter what sector, a decision in one may affect another. For this reason, a cooperation in order to use this interconnection as an advantage is needed.
Maritime is very important to Kenya, as data from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade show that more than 95% of Kenya’s international trade is made by sea.