PHILIPPINES: The European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) announced that it will continue to recognise STCW certificates (Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping) issued by Philippines-based training providers after the country’s president made moves to address decades-long problems with his country's seafarer training systems.
LIBERIA: The National Fisheries and Aquaculture Authority (NaFAA) of Liberia has committed to fully implement a management plan for the sea cucumber fisheries in the country following a workshop held this month in conjunction with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations
SOUTH AFRICA: The Competition Commission (Commission) gazetted the draft terms of reference (ToRs) for a market inquiry into the South African steel industry at the beginning of April and has invited public comment on the scope of the inquiry.
LEGAL: The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) will deliver the judgement on the dispute concerning the delimitation of the maritime boundary between Mauritius and the Maldives on Friday, 28 April.
SOUTH AFRICA: One year since the finalisation of the report into various allegations of irregularities at the South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA), the authority has issued a tender requesting for bids from service providers to establish and maintain a whistle blower hotline.
INTERNATIONAL: The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) set an ambitious goal to mobilise US$100 million to help safeguard the ocean and sustainable seafood supplies over the next decade as part of MSC’s Ocean Stewardship Fund which aims to end overfishing.
SOUTH AFRICA: The Robinson Dry Dock in the Port of Cape Town has welcomed its first vessel after a year-long decommissioning that was used to undertake the installation and upgrade of a new dewatering system.
According to an article written by Lene-Camilla Nordlie of Gard, despite an overall decrease in the number of stowaway incidents reported in Africa, the continent remains the hot spots for stowaway embarkations.
The Q1 2026 Maritime Tender Intelligence Report is the first in a new series of quarterly deep-dives. It includes detailed sections highlighting trends and opportunities within a number of maritime sectors across Africa.
The 3rd International Conference on Seafloor Landforms, Processes and Evolution will be organised by the University of KwaZulu-Natal and the Submarine Geomorphology working group of the International Association of Geomorphologists (IAG), and will take place on the 20th to 24th July 2026 in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
The Aquaculture Association of Southern Africa (AASA) invites researchers, students, industry stakeholders, government partners and all interested parties to its upcoming biennial conference, themed “Resilience through Collaboration,”
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Secretariat and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) have invited parties and observers to a regional workshop on implementing CITES through national fisheries legal frameworks for countries in Africa.
The International Conference on Marine Bioinvasions (ICMB) is an international forum where scientists and policy makers from around the world meet to review current challenges in the global management of invasive marine organisms and to share new developments in science and policy.
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