Egypt: Mariners Sail to Egypt Over Kenya's Lack of Training Ship

24 October 2014

Despite having its own port, which serves the East and Central African countries, Kenya does not have a state-owned ship to train seafarers on maritime piloting and engineering.

A number of colleges in the country among them Bandari college in Mombasa, Jomo Kenyatta University of Technology and the Technical University of Mombasa, have been forced to offer basic maritime studies.

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