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SMOU encourages companies to provide training for seafarers

by The Editorial Team
February 14, 2017
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The Singapore Maritime Officers’ Union (SMOU) has announced that it will contribute S$1.2 million to local shipping companies to encourage them to provide training berths for Singaporean seafaring cadets in the Tripartite Nautical Training Award and Tripartite Engineering Training Award Programmes (TNTA & TETA).

The S$1.2 million will be contributed over a period of two years to the local shipping companies which have collective agreements (CA) with SMOU and up to 240 cadets are expected to benefit from it.

For each TNTA/TETA cadet that a shipping company takes on, they can receive a S$5,000 contribution to offset the cost of having to provide training berths to the cadet. This serves to encourage the shipping companies to give Singaporean cadets an opportunity to have the shipboard training they require in order to move on to become full-fledged officers in the future. More importantly, it supports the development of the Singaporean core in the Maritime sector so as to have a bigger pool of qualified maritime talents even in the current economic conditions.

Guest-of-Honour, Mr Ong Ye Kung, Minister for Education (Higher Education and Skills) and Second Minister for Defence announced this at the SMOU & Wavelink Lunar New Year Luncheon and Hong Bao Presentation on 2 February at Raffles City Convention Centre to about 1,200 tripartite partners, industry guests and members. Among the guests, more than 200 senior citizens are from SMOU’s adopted home, Henderson Home and various community homes such as Care Community Services Society, Hope Community Services Centre, Jamiyah Home For The Aged, Singapore Anglican Community Service Centre @ Floral Spring, Sunshine Welfare Action Mission, and Pacific Activity Centre as part of the Union’s “Care and Share” efforts.

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SMOU General Secretary, Ms Mary Liew said,

“Faced with the prolonged volatile economic situation, shipping companies may naturally take cost-saving measures such as cutting down on training. We are trying to reduce that as we need qualified seafarers to maintain a strong Singaporean core. This is why SMOU is constantly looking for ways to help encourage shipping companies to provide these critical training berths to our Singaporean TNTA/TETA cadets.”

The Union has been actively introducing various schemes to help shipping companies since the shipping industry started facing headwinds. For example, in November last year, the Union set aside S$300,000 in the form of 6,000 subsidised hotel rooms for the next 2 years to lighten the shipping companies’ financial load by introducing a Seafarers’ Accommodation Scheme. This is aimed at providing quality lodging at subsidised rates for the seafaring officers.  Last February, it announced an S$1.5 million one-off contribution to the shipping companies which have CA with SMOU so that shipboard welfare and training for the seafaring officers can continue despite the current situation.

With the latest contribution, SMOU has pledged a total of S$3 million to help maintain shipboard welfare and training, as well as quality lodging for the seafaring officers and building the Singapore maritime core.

Source: SMOU

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