MPA, IMarEST to upskill mariners

Ex-seafarers can get degrees from IMarEST and Plymouth University.

Singapore’s maritime professionals will be given opportunities to retrain courtesy of a partnership between the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST)

According to Quah Ley Hoon, chief executive of the MPA, this partnership will enhance their manpower development efforts based on the Sea Transport Industry Transformation Map and help workers stay relevant in a rapidly changing maritime industry.

The program will mostly benefit marine surveyors and hydrographers as well as offshore and shore-based workers.

Former seafarers and those without experience will also be allowed to pursue further studies, either through a joint MSc/BSc offer by IMarEST and the UK’s Plymouth University, or a Chartered Status under the IMarEST banner.

Reaching the people who run Asia's businesses is harder than it used to be.

Inboxes are crowded. Attention is short. The executives you most want to reach — the founders, CFOs, and operators who actually move budgets — are the hardest to find through the usual channels. If you're building a company, a category, or a reputation, you already know this.

We've spent twenty years building the room they read. Singapore Business Review is where senior decision makers in Singapore and across Southeast Asia come for business coverage they can't get elsewhere — in print, online, and in person at the summits and roundtables we host across seven markets.

If you have something these readers should know about — a point of view worth publishing, a product worth their attention, an event worth their time — we'd like to hear what you're trying to do.

Book a meeting

| Or download the media kit (PDF)

240,000 senior readers quarterly in print Top 1,700 Singapore companies reached

7 markets across Southeast Asia