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by the PNP-Cordillera shows officers near the wreckage of a jeepney that fell into a ravine after developing engine trouble in Balbalan town in Kalinga the other day. The vehicle was carrying mostly senior citizens on their way home from Barangay Poblacion, where they got their stipend under the government’s social pension program for indigent senior citizens. Japanese shipping conglomerate Mitsui OSK Lines and leading Philippine ship management company Magsaysay Group have forged another milestone in their decades of partnership with the opening yesterday of the MOL Magsaysay Maritime Academy in Salitran, Dasmariñas City, Cavite. Leading the inauguration of the new complex are (from left) Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade, MOL president Junichiro Ikeda, Magsaysay Group president and CEO Doris Magsaysay-Ho, Japanese Ambassador Koji Haneda, Canadian Ambassador John Holmes and Magsaysay People president Marlon Roño.
A joint venture between Magsaysay Maritime Corp. and global shipping giant Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. inaugurated yesterday a new maritime educational facility in Cavite that seeks to meet the increasingly complex skills in the shipping industry through innovative education.
The MOL Magsaysay Maritime Academy (MMMA) is a premier maritime higher educational institution that will develop Filipino and regional students to be the future leaders in the global maritime industry.
The 13.7-hectare facility houses a Ship-In Campus, Student Complex, Academic Building, and Student Dormitory, all of which are targeted toward providing students with a real-life working environment and develop them.
The academy features state-of the-art facilities, well-trained and proficient faculty, and a curriculum meeting the demands of the changing maritime industry.
“At present, the global shipping industry is facing challenges such as increasingly stringent global regulations and compliance, changes in technology, and aging demographics in developed countries, among others. MMMA aims to develop cadets who are equipped to be truly global seafarers with innovative and world-class education,” the joint venture said.