AMET
today brought together
a carefully selected group
of industry veterans of
Chennai, to meet, listen
and share ideas with its
illustrious and eminent
Board of Advisors drawn
from the maritime industries
world over, who are listed
below :
| Capt.
IB Fruergaard |
President,
Shipping Titan Ocean
Pvt Ltd. Singapore |
| Capt.
Gaurav Bansal |
Managing
Director, A.P.Moller.
Singapore(Pte) Ltd,
Singapore |
| Capt.
Abhijit Chattopadhay |
Director
& CEO, Mitsui
OSK Lines Marirtime
(I)(P) Ltd, Mumbai |
| Capt.
Rajesh Tandon |
Managing
Director, V-Ships
India Pvt Ltd.Mumbai |
| Mr.
Bjorgulf HauKelid |
Vice
President, Det Norske
Veritas, Oslo, Norway |
| Mr.
Baptista Sumbe |
President
& CEO, Sonangol
USA Company, Houston,
Texas,USA |
| Mr.
Swapan Das Sarma |
Ex-director,Singapore
Maritime Academy |
| Capt.
Wee Hock Leng Francis |
Director
Training,Maritime
& Port Authorit
of Singapore |
| Dr.S.K.Mukherjee |
Vice
Chancellor, BIT, Ranchi |
| Capt.G.Ramaswamy |
General Manager, Wallem
Ship Management, Chennai |
| Capt.A.K.Bansal |
Chairman,
CMMI, Chennai |
| Mr.Aswin
K. Atre |
Managing
Director, NYK Ship
Management, Singapore
|
“The
elite Board of Advisors
of AMET not only contribute
to our training objectives,
but to a larger cause
of capacity building of
the entire maritime industry.
AMET
deems it their responsibility
to meaningfully integrate
maritime education to
industry performance”
so said Capt.S.Bhardwaj,
CEO & Director of
AMET while opening the
meeting.
Mr.J.Ramachandran,
Chairman AMET, while welcoming
the gathering spoke thus
–
“We
are deeply grateful to
our Board of Advisors
for their contributions
to the progress of AMET
and we are indeed fortunate
to have such accomplished
dignitaries from the maritime
industry to be lending
their valuable advice
to us. It speaks volumes
of their commitment to
the industry, for them
to take time off from
their precious routine
and be with us today.”]
Earlier
in the day, the Board
of Advisors had a detailed
3 hours meeting with the
top management of AMET
when AMET future directions
and 10 year vision and
strategy was discussed.
In the afternoon, AMET
cadets put up a great
show of March Past and
Guard of Honour, with
the AMET Band in full
support.
Capt.Ib
Fruergaard gave away the
Gold Medals for Best Officer
like Qualities which were
instituted in his name
by AMET, to Academy Cadet
Captain, Rushil Tandon
(171 B) of B.E (Marine
Engineering) who is placed
with Shell Shipping, U.K.
Academy Cadet Captain
Vidyuth Narayan (159 A)
of B.Sc (Nautical Science)
bagged the Gold Medal
from his batch, who is
placed with Fleet Management,
Hong Kong.
“Global
Opportunities for Maritime
India”
was the theme for the
evening te’te’
– a – te’te’
with the industry veterans
of Chennai who turned
up in large number to
be audience to the words
of wisdom of such great
achievers who are on AMETs
Board of Advisors and
thoroughly relished the
occasion.
