DP World to establish marine academy

DP World-UAE announced today that it will establish a marine academy as part of its proactive strategy to keeping pace with developments in the global sea shipping industry and grooming future management talent leaders. This was announced by Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, Chairman of Dubai World and DP World, during a visit today to Jebel Ali Port on the occasion of the completion of construction work in the first phase of stage 1 of its Mega Max container terminal and the start of work on the rest of the project.Sulayem said:''Jebel Ali Port is pivotal to the operations of DP World and our long-term expansion plans reflect this adequately. We also consider it as a very important base for grooming our future management talent. ''It is with this strategic goal in mind that we are pleased to announce our decision to establish a Marine Academy under the supervision of specialists in all fields of the industry, so as to keep pace with the giant expansions we are undertaking in different parts of the world. ''We are determined to close the gap between supply and demand in our human assets requirement. The management graduates of this Academy will be crucial to our operations in DP Worlds 42 terminals spread across 22 countries,'' he added.The new terminal has a quay of 1,200 meters long, with a handling capacity of 2.5 million TEUs. The work also involved deepening of the channel up to 17 meters, enabling Jebel Ali Port to receive mega-size new generation vessels The ships will start to call at the new terminal from the first week of August.The terminal is part of DP World?s ambitious plan to develop a mega container terminal that will eventually have a 40-kilometer quay and a port area spread over 2,300 hectares. The development of this super project will be carried out in 15 stages between now and 2030. Source