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| RP loses training ship offered by Tsuneishi | |
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| pachador | May 23 2008, 06:39 AM Post #1 |
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Whats going on? sayang naman ito....Good news is that there are still 4 more vessels available... RP loses training ship offered by Tsuneishi May 23, 2008 , Manila Standard By VG Cabuag PHILIPPINE maritime authorities have failed to secure a training ship that Japanese shipyard operator Tsuneishi Heavy Industries had offered for the use of the local industry after training centers failed to hold a dialogue on how to use the vessel. Tsuneishi eventually sold the vessel since there were no takers from the maritime industry, according to Vicente T. Suazo Jr., administrator of the Maritime Industry Authority, or Marina. “I have already told Pami [Philippine Association of Maritime Institutions] to discuss how to go about… [using the vessel] and [that] we will help…[on] legal issues on how to bring the ship to the Philippines, such as using the Bareboat charter law,” Suazo said in an interview. “But I never got… [any] feedback out of it and Tsuneishi was forced to sell it rather than maintaining the vessel with no one using it,” he added. Suazo explained that the Japanese offered the vessel, which can accommodate up to 600 cadets, provided it would be used for training purposes and that, in return, those who will take charge of it pay either the Japanese government or the shipyard operator a minimal fee. Tsuneishi has a local unit in Cebu. Japan is home to one of the world’s top shipping companies. It has bought several training vessels to train Japanese who want to enter the seafaring professions. However, there were quite a few among Japan’s aging population and the new-generation Japanese who were keen on becoming seafarers. The training vessels were rendered useless and ended up dry-docked. Suazo said he will ask Tsuneishi if there are remaining vessels it wants to dispose of and will again get in touch with various maritime schools in the country. These schools, Suazo added, are having a hard time securing shipboard slots to graduates of either Bachelor in Science (BS) Marine Transportation or BS Marine Engineering. Tsuneishi, whose local unit is partly owned by the Abotiz family, still has four available vessels that are up for sale or rent. A marine cadet needs to put in three to four years of classroom work, plus a year of shipboard classes, in order to graduate. Shipboard slots are scarce these days as vessels could only accommodate two to four cadets for deck and engine works at any given time. International shipping vessels, on the other hand, only take in the cadets in the top tier of their class and usually hire them at the end of shipboard training. A vessel dedicated to training maritime students could lessen the pressure on shipping firms to accept more cadets. The Philippines is a major supplier of seafarers worldwide, and Filipinos account for about 30 percent of the maritime population. A shortage of maritime officers also places manning agencies in the country under a lot of pressure to meet the demand of shipping firms for qualified and competent Filipinos to manage their vessels. |
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| Wardog | May 23 2008, 09:26 AM Post #2 |
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'waggin my tail :-)
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Government-owned colleges and universities that have maritime courses should take a look at this offer. They could petition the national government through CHED for the acquisition of this training ship, that is, if the terms of transfer is really good. |
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