95% of India’s international trade by volume and 65% by value is carried via ships. These days lot has been talked about growing job opportunities in the Indian Maritime sector. In India’s Maritime Agenda, the target for the year 2020 is 3,130 million tonnes of port capacity with an investment of around ₹2,96,000 crore. It also states the need to increase the Indian seafarer’s contribution in the world shipping. Union shipping minister Hon Shri Nitin Gadkari ji has also said that maritime sector will create 1 cr jobs in next 5 years.
This has created lot of excitement and doubts amongst people, specially youngsters and their parents. Everyone is keen to understand what this unique industry has for them. Which are the approved institutes one should look for while considering the admission? Who can join and what are the eligibility criteria for joining these institutes? On these lines, all best maritime institutes across India have joined hands with SeaFolks to help these parents and students get their answers in India’s biggest Maritime Education fair called MariLeap 2016. MariLeap will talk about career options like merchant navy, naval architecture & ship building, ship repairs, maritime law, marine biology and many more.
MariLeap has a conference and exhibition spanned out from 22nd Apr to 24th Apr 2016. Conference has Panel of expert maritime officers, who has vast experience and are very well respected in the industry. They will be educating people about different career options in this unique industry. This Panelist includes Capt Sudhir Subhedar – Past President of ICC Shipping Association, Capt Apte – Chairman of CMMI Pune, Capt Harish Khatri – Dy Nautical Advisor to the Government of India MMD, Adv Ranjeet Sangle - LLM (Maritime Law) Advocate Supreme court of India, Dr B K Saxena – Principal of Tolani Maritime Institute, Capt Uday Palsule – Managing Director of Spear Logistics - was faculty at IIM – A, amongst others.
It’s an all India initiative wherein marine institutes from cities like Chennai, Coimbatore, Gujarat, Pune, Mumbai, etc will be participating. When asked, the managing director of SeaFolks Mr Umesh Dhekane said “MariLeap is an authentic source of Information for anything related to Maritime education”. While speaking Capt Sudhir Subhedar said - The first addition of MariLeap will help us showcase the significance of Maritime Industry while promoting Maritime Education”. MariLeap is expected to be a must see event for students who are looking for a unique career options in Maritime Industry and their parents.
Registration for event is free. One can visit www.marileap.com or call 07028445013, to get more details and register for the event.
About SeaFolks:
SeaFolks is a networking portal similar to Linkedin but focused on Maritime Industry. There are about 9000 members from more than 25 countries registered on SeaFolks.
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