Africa

Madagascan port Toamasina is the only one in the country exempt from new US Coast Guard rules imposed by authorities unhappy with inadequate security precautions at other seaports.

A private-sector regulatory board is to be set up in Nigeria to oversee the ports industry.

Tanzania International Container Terminal Services has lost its right to exclusively handle containers in the port of Dar es Salaam for 25 years.

A reciprocal agreement between Uganda and Kenya is to result in the construction of a dry dock and container terminal in the port of Mombasa to handle cargo from Uganda. These, it…

Asmany as 2,500 South African merchant seafarers could be trained to forma pool of talent as navigation and engineering officers and deck crewmembers in the offshore industry.