This year theme focuses on Maritime Education and Training
IMO celebrated World Maritime Day, with the theme “Maritime education and training” on Thursday 24th of September, 2015. Malta commemorated this occasion and paid tribute to IMO for its success in building maritime partnerships and ensuring that effective standards of training are established.
Minister Joe Mizzi remarked that Malta acknowledges the important role IMO has in ensuring that effective standards of training remain the bedrock of a safe and secure shipping industry, which needs to preserve the quality, practical skills and competence of qualified human resources.
Maritime Malta pays tribute to IMO for its success in building maritime partnerships that are the basis of ensuring globally applicable standards essential for serving on boat ships, skills and competence of seafarers, and indeed, the human element ashore maintained through effective maritime education and training.
The Minister for Transport and Infrastructure reiterated Malta’s uninterrupted support for the work of IMO and the importance Government continues to attach to the further development and upgrading of the marine sector in a sustainable manner that would really meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
Source: Malta Independent