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INTRODUCTION : As we know this is technological era and the technologies are constantly updating and taking over the world. The technology is also brining new changes in Maritime Education and Training for better future of maritime industry. Shipping is traditional industry and the ship operation involves operation of heavy machinery in all kind of…

What is Cyber Security?            Cyber security means the body of technologies, processes and practices designed to protect networks, devices, programs and data from attack damage or unauthorised access. Cyber security may also be referred to as Information Technology security. What type of cyber attacks could happen in the maritime industry :-…

” Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world”. – Hillary Clinton          In these days world women have shown their capability in varied sectors with success, they carried all kinds of responsibilities as well as maritime industry. As per the history, we’ve always seen shipping is a male…

Transportation keeps the global economy moving. Sea connect every continent in the world. The world that we know would not function without ships carrying commodities and goods. Shipping is considered as a backbone of globalization and international trade. Around 90% of the world trade is carried through ships. The shipping sector plays an important role…

Introduction Shipping industry, as name denotes, is meant for the heavy goods transportation through the sea ways, from the clothes that the people wear to the food they eat. Today almost everything is being transported through the ships. Shipping industry is also termed as the invisible industry. Ships are operated by seafarers, who perform the…

The Bill of Lading (normally referred to as BOL or B/L) is perhaps the oldest commercial document used for international shipping trade.  The first of that on record was created on 24th April 1248, for carriage of  ‘twelve full loads of brazil wood and nine of pepper and seventeen and a half of ginger’ from Toulouse…

The Independence Day has unique feelings in everyone’s heart and the celebrations of this day create an enthusiasm and feelings of nationalism. The decorations all around, various offers from shopping malls and media programs and news brings additional excitement and yes, the holiday, are the more and more reasons to celebrate this day individually and…

The theme was chosen in order to focus IMO’s efforts during 2013 on carrying out the commitments made at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, better known as Rio+20, held in June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. World Maritime Day 2013 will be observed during the week of 23 to 27 September. World Maritime…

With the hardening of land and aviation targets, terrorists are likely to look at maritime targets. Countries worldwide should take the call to beef up maritime security seriously, say defence ministers and armed forces chiefs attending the Asia Security Conference in Singapore. With a crack down on a particular terrorist network in Singapore last year,…

25 June of each year is the “Day of the Seafarer”, recognizing the invaluable contribution seafarers make to international trade and the world economy, often at great personal cost to themselves and their families. Governments, shipping organizations, companies, shipowners and all other parties concerned are invited to promote and celebrate the Day in an appropriate…

The world-wide recession, which started in 2008, is still continuing. Shipping, being a service industry cannot remain untouched and therefore the most feared recession is setting its foot in the shipping industry. The recession started in USA in 2008, quickly caught the markets of Europe. Since more than half of the world caught in recession,…

27 March 2012  The ITF Seafarers’ Trust, which has just celebrated its 30th anniversary with a major seminar in London on seafarers’ welfare, today announced its latest grants. The following donations, totalling £1,078,533 (USD1,711,685) have been agreed: 1. World Maritime University: £168,000 (USD266,624) to support five students from developing countries to attend courses on maritime administration,…