How Kenya flouts procedures in current hiring of ship crews

A luxury cruise ship. [iStockphoto]

For the last three years since 2019 more than 2,200 Kenyans have been recruited to work aboard different cruise and container ships.

These include the MSC Cruise ships, MSC Container vessels, Royal Caribbean cruise ships and Celebrity cruises.

Whereas Kenyans badly need the jobs, the recruitment to the said vessels and companies are in gross violations of the International Seafarers' Code. The recruitment exercise from the said period did not and it is not following the laid down international maritime labor standards and procedures on replacement and recruitment of Seafarers.