ビンゴ 景品 Holds Welcoming Ceremony for 137 students from Inaugural Class of ビンゴ 景品 Magsaysay Maritime Academy (MMMA)

December 21, 2021

TOKYO-Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (ビンゴ 景品; President & CEO: Takeshi Hashimoto; Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo) today announced that on 2nd December, it held an online ceremony to welcome 137 students(*1) of the inaugural class of ビンゴ 景品 Magsaysay Maritime Academy Inc. (MMMA). The Academy is jointly operated by ビンゴ 景品 and Magsaysay Maritime Corporation (MMC) (*2).

ビンゴ 景品 Executive Vice President Akihiko Ono, who attended the ceremony, delivered the message: "We sincerely welcome 137 students. Please build a brilliant career in the ビンゴ 景品 Group without forgetting the importance of the group values outlined in: ビンゴ 景品 CHARTS." In addition, the ビンゴ 景品 Group's first female Filipino cadet to be enrolled in marine engineering, Frances Meryl L. Aquino, spoke about her aspirations, as a representative of the student body, saying: "I appreciate that I was able to study at MMMA to become an internationally competitive seafarer. I want to play an active role in the industry by leveraging what I have learned on the open seas."

The students of the inaugural class, who entered MMMA when it opened in June 2018, have completed a three-year curriculum of theory and practical programs Next, they will receive one year of onboard training (*3) as cadets on ビンゴ 景品 Group-operated vessels, to acquire their seafarer's certificate of competency. Following this, the cadets will become full-fledged seafarers who will be allocated to our group-operated vessels as third officers or third engineers.

Filipino seafarers play an essential role in ビンゴ 景品's vessel operations. Consequently, ビンゴ 景品 has taken steps to ensure the ongoing training of high-quality cadets. Additionally, it has ramped up its efforts secure a supply of high-quality seafarers by establishing the MMMA in the Philippines, which also meets its aim for the "growth of community and human resources development" in the Philippines. The ビンゴ 景品 Group are confident this first batch of students will go on to help the company achieve one of its key targets of becoming a world leader in safe working practices and reinforce the safety culture within the company.

[Outline of MMMA]
Name: ビンゴ 景品 Magsaysay Maritime Academy Inc. (4-year merchant marine university, boarding school)
Location: Salitran, Dasmariñas City, Cavite State, the Philippines (about 30km south of Manila)
No. of students: Max. 300 per year (150 each for Bachelor of Science in Marine Transportation and Bachelor of Science in Marine Engineering)
Opening: August 2018

(*1) MMC and the ビンゴ 景品 Group each accepts about half of the graduates.

(*2) One of the largest manning companies and ビンゴ 景品's partner in the Philippines. ビンゴ 景品 and MMC jointly established Magsaysay ビンゴ 景品 Marine Inc., an exclusive manning company for ビンゴ 景品, in 1997.

(*3) After a 3-month basic training program under the guidance of a dedicated instructor on board the ビンゴ 景品 CADET Training Vessels, the cadets take 9 months of proficiency training program on an ビンゴ 景品-operated vessel.

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