CMA can fill oil, gas, maritime industries’ human capital needs – Chairman.
CMA is a leading provider of training for professionals in the maritime and offshore oil & gas industries in Nigeria.
Some of the courses its provides are:
- Dynamic Positioning;
- Basic Offshore Safety Induction & Emergency Training;
- Basic Safety Training;
- Global Maritime Distress & Safety System amongst others.
It also offers a
- National Diploma in Nautical Science and Marine Engineering.
The company provides other services:
- Drilling risers,
- wellheads,
- conductors and receptacles;
- Field joint and custom coating; “Halo” automatic welding system etc.
Wami made the statement during a visit to the Regional Maritime University (RMU), Nungua, Ghana.
At the event, reported by Maritime Bits, he said proudly that the school remained the only maritime institution that offered Dynamic Positioning of vessels as a course in the country, adding that CMA would “continue to do so based on its capacity and capability, especially in the availability of required personnel and modern state-of-the-art equipment.
A major stakeholder in the industry is the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency which is responsible for regulation of the industry and implementation of the coastal and inland shipping act (Cabotage Act, 2003).
NIMASA Director-General, Dr Bashir Jamoh had stated in a recent report detailing the launch of the electronic registration platform for maritime labour. The DG stated the commitment of the agency towards seafarers’ training.
In a related development, the Secretary General of the Maritime Organisation of West and Central Africa (MOWCA), Dr Paul Adalikwu urged governments, multi-nationals and individuals to drive efforts in developing maritime training in the West and Central Africa regions.
He made the statement during a visit to RMU, urging collaboration between stakeholders and investors in the maritime sector to support training and certification standards of the university and others in the regions.
He commended RMU’s management for their outstanding quality delivery despite limited resources, saying that the school was crucial to MOWCA’s human capital development. “RMU and other maritime academies in the MOWCA region deserve the support of terminal operators, shipping companies, international oil companies, among other stakeholders.
This support will amount to surplus benefits to the trained seafarers, governments, private organisations and boost the economies of the MOWCA region.”
He noted that the cost of Certificates of Competency for African seafarers was huge for the sponsoring countries and said those funds could be redeployed to localised training that will scale to more youths.
““At MOWCA, we are aware that some countries in our region have had to spend more foreign exchange from their meager resources to complete the maritime training of their citizens abroad.
Many students in our region have also had to privately source funding to acquire certificates in oil, chemical and gas tanker officers’ courses outside Africa.
We are concerned and feel that if specialised courses like dynamic positioning of vessels are done within the MOWCA region, thereby cutting the cost of traveling, more youths would benefit from high quality maritime training at lesser costs.
“MOWCA is therefore appealing to foreign and local companies operating in our ports and entire maritime industry to support our maritime university and academies through donation of equipment, financial grants and making them their first choice for manpower sourcing.
As a body comprising 25 countries, we are deliberate in the drive for the development of qualified and competent seafarers to operate modern ships and contribute to global trade through maritime industry. I am optimistic things are going to get better for our training institutions even as I look forward to visiting the RMU again soon.”
