MPA encourages more Singaporeans to take up seafaring career
The Maritime and Port Authority (MPA) has announced new initiatives created to support Singaporeans career in seafaring.These new initiatives serve to alleviate training costs for employers and offer study awards to Singaporean seafarers. They aim to encourage more Singaporeans to take up seafaring careers, facilitate their up-skilling and improve seafaring talent retention.
This set of seafaring manpower initiatives is part of the industry-wide measures of the Sectoral Tripartite Committee for Transport (Sea) that was announced by Mr Teo Chee Hean, Deputy Prime Minister, Cordinating Minister for National Security and Minister for Home Affairs at the Singapore Shipping Associations (SSA) 30th Anniversary Gala Dinner on 25 Sep 2015.
The new initiatives aim to build a sustainable manpower pipeline of Singaporean-core within the seafaring sector to support shipping and port activities in Singapore. The target groups encompasses candidates from various stages of the pipeline from cadets, existing seafaring officers looking to upgrade themselves to mid-careerists looking to switch to an enriching and challenging career in themaritime sector. Employers of these target groups are encouraged to tap on the various schemes available.
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Source:MPA Singapore
