The IMO Council has endorsed a proposal by IMO Secretary-General Koji Sekimizu to adopt “Maritime education and training” as the World Maritime Day theme for 2015. Addressing the IMO Council, meeting for its 112th session at IMO Headquarters in London, Mr. Sekimizu said that effective standards of training remained the bedrock of a safe and […]
Emirates International Maritime Academy (EIMA), today announced the signing of a MoU on academic cooperation with World Maritime University (WMU), an educational agency operating under the auspices of the International Maritime Organization (IMO). This landmark event supports the vision for EIMA which has been established with the objective of becoming the Gulf’s Centre of Excellence […]
Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) is actively strengthening partnership in key areas of enhancing maritime transport safety. In 2014, meetings of four sections of the RS Scientific and Technical Council (STC) were held. The largest scientific and educational centres, shipbuilding and shiprepair yards, shipping companies and other organisations of the maritime industry participated in […]
Two pioneering educational giants whose aim is to bring about a revolution in current industrial training methods have joined forces in a strategic alliance geared towards providing maritime education and professional development as a priority for this sector. Emirates International Maritime Academy (EIMA) a leading maritime training institute in the Middle East and Aries International […]
Maersk Training has announced today the appointment of David Bowyer as new Head of Training and Education. David joins the senior management team to oversee all aspects of training, following recent growth in the number of delegates attending their courses. David Bowyer has a wealth of experience in the education industry and was previously the […]
The Korean Register of Shipping formally opened a newly built education and training center dedicated to international shipping and shipbuilding professionals on 21 February in Busan, Korea. The four storey, 5,500 square meter facility houses 13 lecture halls and seminar rooms and is designed to train around 100 students in comfort. In addition, the center […]
Yesterday, Minister for Business and Growth Ole Sohn presented a bill clarifying the distribution of responsibilities between the authorities regarding the maritime training programmes and the pilotage area following the Government’s transfer of competences. The bill, which the Minister for Business and Growth presented to the Danish Parliament, will introduce a number of amendments to […]
In order to sustain its current status as the premier provider of quality seafarers worldwide, the Philippine’s Commission on Higher Education is pushing for an upgrade in maritime education. According to Capt. Hernando Eusebio, this push for educational and training improvement is needed to create more competitive Filipino seafarers in the future. Also, if the […]
A fund for promoting and supporting maritime education and training through scholarships to Bahraini students has been announced by the General Organisation of Sea Ports (GOP) as the second annual Bahrain Maritime Festival (BMF) kicked off. The proposal for establishing the Bahrain Maritime Education Fund was given the green light by GOP’s Board of […]
The Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) will collaborate with the UK’s largest provider of maritime higher education, the University of Plymouth, to develop and offer new programs in the field of maritime sciences, under the terms of a new Memorandum of Understanding. The agreement was signed yesterday by Dr Tayeb Kamali, Vice Chancellor of […]
