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Captain of Lamu Shipping line Musa Bakari with Engineering cadets, Lulu Chilumo and Fatuma Ridhwani at Amu 1 Cargo ship in Mombasa Port. [File, Standard]
More than 20 countries from Eastern, Southern and Northern Africa have supported plans to establish the region's first maritime university.
The initiative is aimed at pooling scarce resources, harmonising training standards and creating a world-class centre of excellence for Africa's shipping industry.
The proposal, currently at the validation stage following a feasibility study, seeks to address what maritime leaders describe as decades of fragmented investment in maritime education.
