Tag: Kenya

On 17 March 2022, Kenya ratified the 2012 Cape Town Agreement and the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Fishing Vessel Personnel (STCW-F).

The fight against maritime crimes has received a boost after a partnership between the US and Kenya’s coast guard under the Global Maritime Crime Programme, with Kenya receiving a ‘simulator’ to fight maritime crime.

Kenya enhanced its war against transnational organized crime in its terrestrial borders by presenting a one of its kind training facility to boost enforcement capacity of maritime security.

All seafarers wanting to offer services for vessels in the deep seas of Kenya’s territorial waters will be required to be certified by the IMO and the Kenya Maritime Authority (KMA). The government says untrained persons will not be allowed to work onboard ships plying deep seas without certification.

Ten seafarers from the RA-Horakhty fishing vessel, abandoned in Mombasa, Kenya for the past nine months, face a bleak Christmas as efforts to seek legal redress and repatriation have been delayed.

The new Kenya Navy Base in Manda Bay, Lamu County will greatly boost Kenya’s counter-terrorism efforts while strengthening the country’s ability to secure her maritime domain, crucial to attaining the Blue Economy agenda.

Shipping industry removed Kenya maritime waters within the Indian Ocean from the piracy red list, 12 years after it was designated a high-risk area.

A total of 10 crew members have been abandoned onboard the Tanzanian-flagged general cargo ship MV Jinan in the Kenyan port of Mombasa, since October 2019. 

Standard Club recently informed that Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Services (KEPHIS) are ordering fumigation of all vessels arriving from South American ports where any traces of infestation, however small, are found.

The Maritime Authority of Jamaica signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Republic of Kenya to enable reciprocal recognition of STCW certificates for seafarers for their nationals.