Georgian port city of Poti to have Maritime Academy branch by 2020
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A new branch of Batumi State Maritime Academy will be built in Georgia’s Black Sea port town of Poti by the end of 2020, reads the official statement of the Governor of Georgia’s Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region.
The Georgian Government has allocated about 6 million GEL ($2.02 mln/€1.83 mln) for the construction of the academy.
The academy will be located in the former building of the Hydro- Melioration School, which is on the list of country’s cultural heritage sites of the 20th century.
The new Maritime Academy will add a new dimension to Georgia’s Black Sea town of Poti. It will help the younger generation to stay and get employment in the city”, reads the statement of the Governor of Georgia’s Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region.
Participating in the International Maritime Organization Assembly, Georgian Economy Minister Natia Turnava has mentioned that there is a great demand for professional Georgian sailors abroad.
Turnava said that Batumi State Maritime Academy will soon have a branch in the Black Sea Port town of Poti, which means that Georgia will have even more highly qualified and competitive sailors on the international market.
Georgia is improving maritime security, sea-search and rescue operations as well as protection of marine ecology by joining the Long-Range Identification and Tracking (LRIT CDC) system, announces the Maritime Transport Agency of Georgia.
Georgia’s Maritime Transport Agency reports that Georgian sailors already have the opportunity to be employed on about 4,000 commercial ships under Brazilian and German flags.
From now on, students of Batumi State Maritime Academy, along with theoretical knowledge, will have the opportunity to receive practical experience as well. For the first time in the 90-year history of Georgia’s only maritime university, it has its own training vessel.
Georgia’s Permanent Representative to the International Maritime Organization has been elected as the Vice President of the IMO Assembly. Tamar Beruchashvili was elected to the role at the Assembly’s 30th session yesterday.
Batumi State Maritime Academy will receive students in its Poti branch for the first time in 2021.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between the World Maritime University (WMU) and Batumi State Maritime Academy (BSMA) on cooperation to support the Georgian government in advancing maritime education, training, research and capacity-building activities.