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CMI to host industry awards dinner during Maritime Awareness Week 2013

Published:Tuesday | August 13, 2013 | 12:00 AM
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Search and rescue re-enactments formed part of the activities of the CMI Maritime Awareness Week exposition last year.
High school students listen attentively to an exhibitor during the 2012 staging of the Maritime Awareness Week three-day exposition at the Caribbean Maritime Institute.
Students simulate a pirate attack during the Maritime Awareness Week exposition.
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The Caribbean Maritime Institute will host a shipping industry awards ceremony and dinner as part of its celebratory plans for Maritime Awareness Week next month. The week is being celebrated from September 23 to 27.

The CMI, which is known to host career seminars over a three-day period to expose students to careers in the maritime industry, said the move to host the awards ceremony is to complement the theme for this year's international maritime celebrations, 'Sustainable Development: IMO's Contribution Beyond Rio +20'. The theme was chosen in order to focus IMO's efforts during 2013 on carrying out the commitments made at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, better known as Rio+20, held in June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

"This gala event will recognise the stalwarts in the maritime and shipping industries and form the appropriate platform to showcase the collective strength of stakeholders in the industry. Awardees will be selected from among persons who have contributed significantly to the industry," the CMI said. The ceremony is scheduled for Thursday, September 26, at The Jamaica Pegasus and will coincide with World Maritime Day. The event is being planned by a committee comprising representatives from the CMI and major shipping-industry partners.

MANY ACTIVITIES

In addition to the awards dinner, the institute will host a church service on Sunday, September 22, and its annual three-day open day exhibition from September 23-25.

The exhibition will have new features to engage hundreds of students from across Jamaica in numerous entertaining and educational activities. Features include an essay and song competition among high school students, physical training and military demonstrations, guided campus tours of the Institute, band performances, giveaways, and touring the Kingston Harbour by ferry.

CMI will use this opportunity to sensitise students about life at sea, the rewards of careers at sea, and the necessary requirements for matriculation into the Institute for training.

This is the Institute's flagship activity which sees approximately 80 schools participating every year. Much of the information to be disseminated conveys the Institute's programme offerings, maritime affairs, and how the CMI fits into the context of a global maritime village.