Gitonga Marete
10 July 2009
Nairobi — The ministry of transport has renewed the term of the Kenya Maritime Authority director general for another term of three years.
In a Kenya Gazette notice published last week, Transport minister Chirau Ali Mwakere said the term of Ms Nancy Karigithu had been renewed.
Ms Karigithu's reappointment comes a month after a new Merchant Shipping Act came into force as law.
"Now that we have the Merchant Shipping Law in place we intend to build on the foundations we have laid over the past three years," she said.
"We will now lay down the structures and move to streamline the industry as we train seafarers in readiness for the country being put on the International Maritime Organisation's White List," she said.
Her renewal to head the maritime body comes two weeks after Ms Karigithu was elected as the vice chair of the IMO Technical Cooperation Committee during this year's council meeting in London.
Her election to head the international body, she added, was a clear sign that despite the country's late entry into the shipping world, Kenya's maritime sector was internationally recognised.
Be the first to Write a Comment!
Copyright © 2009 The Nation. All rights reserved. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com). To contact the copyright holder directly for corrections — or for permission to republish or make other authorized use of this material, click here.
AllAfrica aggregates and indexes content from over 125 African news organizations, plus more than 200 other sources, who are responsible for their own reporting and views. Articles and commentaries that identify allAfrica.com as the publisher are produced or commissioned by AllAfrica.
