Kenya still harbours sweet dreams of owning a ship

Southern Engineering Company engineers watch as the first Kenyan built barge Alpha 2500 is towed into the ocean from the dry dock in Mombasa. [File, Standard]

For the last 43 years, Kenya has been fantasizing, visualizing, imagining, even dreaming of owning a ship.

It has been a farfetched quest that none of the previous regimes has been able to fulfill. Kenya has watched enviably as other African countries build their own vessels, hoping that a day will come when it will achieve such a feat.