WITH the demand for seafarers around the world rising, Japanese transportation group NYK has commenced the NYK Mirai Project to encourage greater awareness of maritime affairs and the seafaring life among students at elementary, junior high, and maritime schools in Japan.
The shipping company said in a statement that it has implemented this project "to help familiarise students with vessel operations and life aboard so that informed career choices can eventually be made."
The programme includes visits by students to shipyards, lectures at elementary and junior high schools by the ocean liner's maritime staff, introduction of the maritime industry at junior high school orientations, and taking maritime school teachers aboard the group's vessels.
The first activity of this project involved taking students from the Hiroshima National College of Maritime Technology on a visit to the Ohnishi Shipyard of Shin Kurushima Dockyard in Imabari City, Ehime prefecture.
The students saw first-hand the construction of a vessel larger than the school's training ship that had been ordered by the company.
WORLD SHIPPING
29 January 2015 - 19:09
Shipping giant NYK looks to schools to provide seafarers from Japan
WITH the demand for seafarers around the world rising, Japanese transportation group NYK has commenced the NYK Mirai Project to encourage greater awareness of maritime affairs and the seafaring life among students at elementary, junior high, and maritime schools in Japan.
WORLD SHIPPING
29 January 2015 - 19:09
Shipping giant NYK looks to schools to provide seafarers from Japan
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