Kenya is looking forward to entrenching better ways of enhancing its Maritime Domain Awareness.
This followed the training of officials drawn from the Navy, Ministry of Interior, Kenya Ports Authority, and Kenya Revenue Authority.
At least 12 officials drawn from the agencies on Friday completed a two-week training on maritime data analysis.
The training by the European Union follows Kenya's bid to reap from the blue economy, hence the need for efficient control of crimes and incidents at sea.
It was spearheaded by Olivier Bizier, the EU Critical Maritime Route Indian Ocean (EU Crimario) trainer.
The latter said the critical training assists about 21 countries, which are part of the West Indian Ocean, share critical information on the safety and security of their waters.
He said the participants were taken through alert warning process and basics of maritime intelligence. They were also trained in the law of the sea, oil, and gas offshore installations.
Bizier told journalists in Mombasa that a good number of those who attended the lessons would move to the second stage of the training.
"Most of them have succeeded. However, a few others did not and therefore, will have to undergo the training again," Bizier said.
The 12 Kenyans were joined by two officials from Madagascar, and one from Seychelles.
Tony Kibwana, the KPA principal security officer and local point-man of EU Crimario, said the training will boost the analysis of maritime safety and security incidents in the deep seas.
Kibwana said Kenya as a country has a multi-agency Joint Operations Centre based at the port of Mombasa which does maritime data analysis.
The Kenya Ports Authority, Kenya Maritime Authority, and the Navy, as well as Kenya Revenue Authority, have been subjected to the EU Crimario training.
"If this vital information is not shared across, you will not have an understanding of a bigger picture. That is why we had Madagascar and Seychelles which have very robust joint operation centre in their countries attended the training under the EU CRIMARIO project," he said.