The International Maritime Academy International Chamber of Commerce project on alternative certification of seafarers according to International Convention STCW 78 as amended

International Chamber of Commerce

International Maritime Academy

Concept • Introduction • Vision • Main target • Action Plan • Tasks Performance

Eduard M. P'yatakov – Philosophy Doctor, Professor Katerina M. Prisyazhnaya – Postgraduate applicant

Concept IMA ICC is a community of maritime figures,

organizations and academies which has declared the improvement of maritime philosophy, strategy and ways of maritime education development as their main objective.

IMA ICC is involved in setting up of alternative certification of seafarers in conformity with the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for seafarers STCW 1978 , as amended, development of normative documents and performance of representative functions abroad.


Concept • IMA ICC task is to provide our graduates'

competitive capacity in the world labour market owing to implementation of high quality training standards, performance of all international and national requirements to the quality of seafarers' training, taking into account the highest training demands of global leading shipping companies into the training programs.


Concept • IMA ICC considers the proposals and legislative

initiatives of all organizations irrespective of their strength and formal registration by the present state system and also implements its own proposals to update the assembly to achieve the worthy place in the world maritime system.


Concept • IMA ICC undertakes to give effect to the

provisions of the Convention and the Annex thereto, which shall constitute an integral part of the Convention. Every reference to the Convention constitutes at the same time a reference to the Annex.


Concept • IMA ICC undertakes to promulgate all laws,

decrees, orders and regulations and to take all other steps which may be necessary to give the Convention full and complete effect, as to ensure that, from the point of view of safety of life and property at sea and the protection of the marine environment, seafarers on board ships are qualified and fit for their duties.


Concept • IMA ICC retains and implements new methods of

training. The provisions of the Convention will not prevent IMA ICC from retaining or adopting other educational and training arrangements including those involving sea-going service and shipboard organization especially adopted to technical developments and to special types of ships and kinds of trades provided that the level of sea-going service, knowledge and efficiency as regards navigational and technical handling of ship and cargo ensures safety at sea and has a preventive effect as regards pollution equivalent to the requirements of the Convention.


Concept • Notwithstanding the certification requirements the

Academy may issue or authorize the issue of certificates different from those mentioned in chapters A-II/1 and A-II/2 of the STCW Code, provided that the associated functions and levels of responsibility to be stated in the certificates and endorsements are selected from identical to those appearing in sections A-II/1, A-II/2, A-II/3, A-II/4, A-II/5, A-III/1, A-III/2, A-III/3, A-III/4, A-III/5, A-IV/2 of the STCW Code.


Concept • IMA ICC a as leading party authorized to issue

the alternative certificates, ensures that the following principle should be observed:

no alternative certification shall be implemented unless it ensures a sufficient degree of safety at sea and has a preventive effect as regards pollution at least equivalent that provided in the other chapters.


IMA ICC Assembly

Council

IMA ICC Diploma

IMA ICC Executive Committee

IMA ICC Innovation Department

IMA ICC Independent Organizations Department

IMA ICC Management Department

IMA ICC Academic Department

IMA ICC Crew management department

IMA ICC Public Relations Department

IMA ICC Investment

Department

IMA ICC Technical and Informational Department

IMA ICC Legal Department IMA ICC Diploma and Passport Department

IMA ICC Governing Board


Executive Committee

• Vice-Chancellor of technical and informational department

• Vice-Chancellor of academic department • Vice-Chancellor on methodical work • Vice-Chancellor on legal matters • Vice-Chancellor on financial matters • Vice-Chancellor of personnel department


Executive Committee

Functions- implementation of IMA ICC Assembly decisions and policies, consulting and general assistance.

Vice-Chancellor of academic department

Vice-Chancellor on methodical work

Vice-Chancellor on legal matters

Vice-Chancellor on financial matters

Vice-Chancellor of technical and informational department

Vice-Chancellor of personnel department


Vice-Chancellor of academic department

organization and coordination of the academic staff working plan;

control of students’ training load; control of educational process quality and recording

documentation; selection and deployment of academic staff and

improvement of their competency; keeping the academic staff and additional staff time-

sheet.


Vice-Chancellor on Financial Matters

IMA ICC management of financial resources circulation and financial relations regulation;

detection of financial sources; negotiations with commercial banks, credit institutions,

analysis of financial and economic condition of the Academy;

management of assets; cost analysis for purchase of raw and other materials;; determination of the Academy investment policy on

reporting and financial issues.


Vice-Chancellor on Methodical Work

organization and coordination of the methodical activity; revision and development of the methodical materials; predicting and planning of training, retraining and

advanced training courses for administrators and other employees of the Academy;

participation in prospective planning of methodical work of the Academy, publication of training tutorial guides;

control of publishing activity (scientific journals, collections of IMA ICC articles).


Vice-Chancellor of Personnel Department

staff recruitment for the required positions; development of personnel policy and personnel strategy; employment, deployment of young specialists,

registration,hiring, rotation and internal transfer of workers as well as their dismissal in compliance with the labour legislation, provisions, instructions, statute;

Student body control.


Vice-Chancellor of technical and informational department

development and assistance in acquiring innovative programs and technologies by academic staff;

IMA ICC provision with the software; organisation and planning of training process

computering; participation in assessment and adoptation of the

created and purchased software for educational process.


Vice-Chancellor on Legal Matters

development and participation in drawing up of legal documents, provision with legal assistance for structural subdivisions in legal documents registration;

participation in preparation of well-grounded answers to legal letters, documents, contracts; recording and storing of completed judicial and arbitration affairs;

development and ratification of contract and financial documentation;

representation of the Academy interests in the courts.


IMA ICC Academic Department

• Faculty members; • Training methodical council; • Training process control committee; • Control education quality committee.


Academic Department

Educational process Subdepartment

Scientific methodical Subdepartment

Graduating students certification Subdepartment

Professional sea skills Subdepartment

Dispatching service


Educational process Subdepartment

• is engaged in professional and teaching staff selection according to a staff-list established in conformity with regulations on appointing on vacant positions on a competitive basis and hiring of teaching staff and also employment of additional personnel together with the chairs;

• develops and amends curricula, forms and calculates teaching load together with deans and heads of chairs;

• controls teaching load execution by chairs and lecturers; • plans, organizes and controls lecturers’ advanced training; • employs lecturers hourly paid; • keeps record, analyses the current students progress and evaluates the examination results; develops schedules of the training process; • organizes and conducts students’ Academic Competitions and participation of winners in

Maritime Academic Competitions; • provides the control of lecturers’ lessons and students’ attendance, etc.; • consults all chairs of the Academy on teaching issues and teaching process organization.


Scientific methodical Subdepartment - to develop a plan of control of chairs’ methodical work and provide their sufficient

methodical support of the subjects; - to draw up plans of publishing (including electronic editions): textbooks and manuals

with the seal ICC ; short notes of the lectures; - to develop methodical instructions to different types of studies; plans of the

demonstration lectures conducted by the leading lecturers of the chairs using an interactive board and modern hardware; plans of the lectures conducted by the leading professionals of the branches connected with Academy specialities;

- to provide editing of instructive-methodical materials and notes of the lectures on the subjects taught in IMA ICC;

- to coordinate work of the Academy councils in specialities and chairmen work of permanently functioning commisions of methodical council; to control performance of plans and adopted decisions, to consult them on methodical issues prepared for the meetings;

- to create IMA ICC data base; - to create standard working programs on the IMA ICC subjects; - to participate in fulfillment of regulation concerning working training program of the

subjects conducted by IMA ICC lecturers;


Scientific methodical Subdepartment - to consult the Academy lectureres on structure, content and consideration order of

training and working programs.; - to coordinate the work of scientific and methodical commission; - to study and analyze new technologies of students’ training; - to organize work of permanently functioning psycological-educational seminars and

provide consultations of the seminar heads on methodical issues; - to provide methodical support of progressive teaching skills; - to organize annual scientific and methodical conference of the Academy lecturers; to

prepare conference materials for publishing; - to inform chairs about the themes and terms of international conferences; to oblige

the lecturers to participate and to present their reports; to analyze materials of these conferences in order to distribute training innovation technologies in IMA ICC;

- to collect, analyze and summarize the current and total results of educational, methodical, scientific work of the Academy chairs.


Professional Sea Skills Subdepartment

IMA ICC standard of Competency Sea Skills - Competence Requirements for Ship’s Electrical Officers - Electrical Standard - Ship’s Electrical Officers - Ship board LNG Cargo Operations - STCW Basic Safety for Seafarers - Standard of Security Officers Competency


Graduating Students Certification Subdepartment

-- organizes work of state final examination commissions -- collects and analyzes reports submitted by chairmen of state final

examination commissions ; -- prepares documentation of diplomas; -- organizes issue of diplomas and appendixes; -- issues the academic references, diploma dublicates and appendixes.

Dispatching service makes up the time-table of classes and controls its performance


IMA ICC Legal Department Accredited by Maritime Administrations

• Nostrification • Documents equivalence verification • Consulting • Visas • Documentation Archive


IMA ICC Technical and Informational Department

• Documents verification • Maritime Documents Register • Students’ data identification • Communicative academic information

support


IMA ICC Diploma and Passport Department accredited by Maritime Administrations

• Diplomas and Seaman’s Books issue • Documents’ copies assurance • Sailing records execution • Archive record issue etc.


IMA ICC Innovation Department

• Provision with resources • E-library data base of training materials • Material technical basis


Innovation Department

Tasks Functions

3. Material and technical basis

2. E-library data base of training materials

1. Provision with resources 1. Data search

2. Implementation

3. Improvement


1. Provision with the resources

а) work resources for improvement of management system quality; b) resources for consumers and other parties satisfaction; suppliers and partners: to interact with suppliers and partners for support and simplification of informing to ensure the mutual improvement of productivity and efficiency of the processes; natural and financial resources: To develop plans or plans for action in case of unforeseen circumstances to ensure availability of the resources and to prevent or minimize negative effect on the Academy activity; to develop plans, to ensure availability and management of the financial resources. industrial environment: to create the industrial environment to achieve the working goals; employees: To determine competency and training level of employees (experience, knowledge of planning means, collective work principles, communication skills, social behavior standards); information: to define the information need, to get access to the internal and external sources of information, to assess the number of advantages received due to information use, to improve the information and knowledge management.


2. E-library data base of the training materials

- Free access to the joint intellectual capital of the educational institution for lectures and students irrespective of their territorial location; - User can get access to review and store training materials by means of Internet site or a special mobile application for the tablets and smartphones; - Digital educational materials are stored in the e-library (Aped, TIFF, PDF, PowerPoint presentations, MP3 audiofiles).


3. Material and technical basis.

– set of the tangible products and means of production; – registration of the available material resources; – arrangement of data about the condition of material and technical basis; – control of the essential elements correctness; – registration of the personnel data; – indication of the documents’ essential elements; – list of available rooms and their equipment.


Tasks – to study prospective trends of the educational process; – to receive, develop and implement new educational materials; – to organize approbation and implementation of new training methods; – to provide information support of the lecture halls and the Academy functioning; – to ensure active participation in the Academy technical modernization; – to improve staff training methods; – to implement the Internet resources in the educational process – to improve quality management system; – to ensure competency; – to involve new partners; – to implement innovations; – to control documents.


IMA ICC Independent Organizations Department

• Representatives of Academic Department • Independent experts • Trustees council of Insurance Fund • Pension Fund


Pension Fund

Trustees Council of Insurance Fund

Independent experts

Representatives of Academic Department

Independent organizations


Independent experts Functions: • to collect data; • to draw up documentation; • to control working process of the Academy departments; • to determine normative amount of resources necessary for

performance of required tasks; • to develop working documentation; • to arrange technical and executive documentation; • to verify working documentation in complience with the rules ; • to determine the correct arrangement of documentation and

working process performance; • to perform quality control.


Trustees Council of Insurance Fundd

• Member of Council; • Bursar; • Chairman; • Secretary; Functions: • to provide financial assistance for seafarers and their families; • to monitor insurance fund and supervise distribution and collection of

monetary resources; • to organize experts' consultations; • to control performance of required work concerning insurance fund; • to keep records.


Representatives of Academic Department

• postgraduate education center; • distant education center; online training; • training and advisory centers; • educational innovations. Functions: • to control the educational process and licenses; • to provide experience exchange; • to control professional competency level of lecturers; • to provide information exchange concerning the latest changes

in educational process.


Vice-Chancellors

President

Vice-president

Chancellor

Governing Board


Governing Board • Chancellor considers proposals and submits the next year project plan for

adoption by Governing Board meeting. • Recommendations accepted by the Governing Board for the Council and

Academic Department considerations should be arranged in orders and instructions on the basis of which decisions of the Governing Board come into force.

• Lecturers and employees have the right to familiarize with Governing Board materials concerning them personally.

• The scientific council of the Governing Board issues extracts from its permissions. Once a year the information on their execution is submitted to the Governing Board meeting.

• Governing Board activity is carried out according to the annual working plan. Suggestions to the annual working plan are submitted to the Secretary by members of the Board.

• Drafts of decisions on the issues included in the Governing Board agenda are submitted for discussion to the chancellor who gives his recommendations.

• The final decision on all issues is made by the Chancellor. Governing Board materials are included into the protocol in term of three days.

• Governing Board meeting date is appointed by the Chancellor. Eduard M. P'yatakov – Philosophy Doctor, Professor Katerina M. Prisyazhnaya – Postgraduate applicant

Crew management department

• Cooperation agreements subscription with International crewing agencies

• Recording of seafarers to the data base of IMA ICC Employment Exchange

• IMA ICC clients data base • IMA ICC Assembly staff


Crew Management System

Complete recycling program

Victualling

Insurance

Crew selection

Interview

Previous services

Preparation

Medical examination

Certification review

Seafarers' visa

Flag certification

Flight arrangements

Certification follow-up

Rejoining program

ITF -IBF coverage

Marine Management offers a wide range of crewing services that are grouped in two fundamental Crew manning options.

A. Basic Recruitment solution This is the basic crew management service,

offering client of shipowners' crew department with a low-cost solution covering all aspects of

seafarers' recruitment.

B. Total crew management solution This is the complete crew management solution, offering

best-value-for-money services to ship owners by undertaking all crew related operations ashore. In addition to the services offered in the Basic Recruitment Solution,

Crewing agency offers following services:

A. Basic Recruitment solution This is the basic crew management service, offering client shipowners' crew department with a low-cost solution covering all aspects of seafarers' recruitment.

With the establishment of very strict procedures for crew interviewing and selection, Marine Management guarantees effective crew selection in terms of skills, experience and motivation to work.

All officers selected for employment are interviewed for their English abilities by Marine port captains, either during their regular visits in the manning agency offices around the world or over the phone/tele-conferencing facilities.

Reference from previous employers are obtained to ensure that each seaman has successfully served on his previous vessels and his performance/attitude was professional.

Once approved, seamen are prepared for joining with all necessary certificates in accordance with national and international regulations as well as with Owners' standing instructions. Moreover, our manning agencies have the necessary presentation facilities to conduct familiarisation training to approved seafarers according to shipowners' ISM requirements.

Previous services

Preparation

Interview

Crew selection

Approved seafarers are passing medical and drug & alcohol examinations in reliable medical centers, in accordance with Owners' P&I club requirements, if applicable.

Specially trained personnel is checking the certification of approved seafarers to confirm that they are holders of all certificates necessary with respect to their position, the type and the flag of the vessel. Validity and genuinity of certificates is verified through the respective national and flag authorities. Criminal record of seafarers is obtained in order to comply with vessels' SSP requirements.

Certification review

Medical examination

is arranging seafarer's visa, whenever such is required for the seamen to be allowed to fly and join vessels in particular countries. For urgent crew replacements, Schengen and/or USA visa can be arranged at short notice.

Marine agency is arranging timely issuance of flag endorsement and all other applicable flag certification (SBKs, stickers, etc.) in accordance with flag administration requirements.

Through affiliated travel agency, Crewing agency can make all necessary travelling arrangements for onsigning and offsigning crew members at very competitive prices and liaise with vessel's local agents and the Master for coordinating the whole replacement process.

Seafarers' visa

Flag certification

Flight arrangements

is arranging seafarer's visa, whenever such is required for the seamen to be allowed to fly and join vessels in particular countries. For urgent crew replacements, Schengen and/or USA visa can be arranged at short notice.

Marine agency is arranging timely issuance of flag endorsement and all other applicable flag certification (SBKs, stickers, etc.) in accordance with flag administration requirements.

Through affiliated travel agency, Crewing agency can make all necessary travelling arrangements for onsigning and offsigning crew members at very competitive prices and liaise with vessel's local agents and the Master for coordinating the whole replacement process.

Crewing agency is following up expiry of certificates and other documents of the seamen and will inform you about expiring certificates (incl. vaccination, medical examination certificate, etc.) in due time so as to renew them or replace the respective seaman.

In cooperation with company’s crew department and/or Master of client’s vessel(s), there can be established a comprehensive rejoining program in order to ensure better re-employment of ex-company seafarers and timely replacement of seamen completing their services, making, if requested, all repatriation arrangements.

Being a member of International Maritime Employment's Committee (IMEC), Marine Management can offer full coverage and compliance with International Bargaining Forum (IBF) Agreement.

Seafarers' visa

Flag certification

Rejoining program

ITF - IBF coverage

Flight arrangements

Certification follow-up

Complete recycling program

Through a complete recycling program covering all necessary incentives for the seamen, marine agency can guarantee high re-employment rates for all key positions onboard the vessel.

Complete, cost-effective and quality provision of crew victuals all around the world.

Insurance to cover all Owners' P&I club deductible expenses, related to the crew and the obligations of the Owners are arised by the crew contracts of employment and the international conventions and the shipping practice.

B. Total crew management solution This is the complete crew management solution, offering best-value-for-money services to ship owners by undertaking all crew related operations ashore. In addition to the services offered in the Basic Recruitment Solution, Crewing agency offers following services:

Victualling

Insurance

IMA ICC Public Relations Department

• Interrelation with intergovernmental organizations;

• International cooperation with maritime associations;

• Academy members in different countries.


International Federation of Shipmasters Associations

(IFSAM)

International Ship Managers’ Association (INTERMANAGER)

International Chamber of Shipping (ICS)

Cruise Lines International Association(CLIA)

International Shipping Federations (IFS)

International Association of Independent Tanker Owners

(INTERTANKO)

Global Maritime Education and Training Association

(GlobalMET)

Maritime Institute (МI)

International Maritime Health Association (IMHA)

International Association of Maritime Universities (IAMU)

European Commission (ЕC)

League of Arab State (ASL)

IMA ICC Public Relations

Department


IMA ICC Investment Department

• IMA ICC Governing Board • IMA ICC Investors • IMA ICC Creditors • IMA ICC Contractors • IMA ICC Assembly Staff


IMA ICC Investment Department

Structure

- to define investment policy of the enterprise, conditions of insurance and ensure guarantees against noncommercial risks; - to provide income receiving timely; - to determine tax policy of the enterprise; - to preside the implementation of the financial accounting and accounting records standards; - to ensure the records of the financial means circulation and draw up the authentic accounting records of the financial activity results; - to organize keeping reports on the financial issues for heads and owners of the enterprise.

Functions


IMA ICC Investors

IMA ICC Contractors

IMA ICC Creditors



• Chancellor • Vice-Chancellor • Academic Council • Legal Adviser


IMA ICC Contractors

Organizations to which a set of the internal services provided by IMA ICC can be transferred.


IMA ICC Investors

• persons or organizations (a shipping company, a state) which make the capital investments connected with the risk aimed at receiving profit or result..


IMA ICC Creditors

• members of credit relations, private and legal persons which have available funds at their disposal and transfer them in temporary use.


Functions • To define investment policy of the enterprise according to the following points:

conditions of the production market, volumes of its output; financial and economic condition of the enterprise; technological level of production; combinations of own and loan resources; financial conditions of the investment in the capital market; the privileges received by the investor from the state; commercial and budget effectiveness of investment actions; conditions of insurance and receiving guarantees against non-commercial risks, etc.

To provide duly revenue of incomes, arrangement of the financial accounting and banking operations due to the fixed period , payment of suppliers and contractors invoices, vendors, cancellation of loans, payment of percents, workers and employees salaries, transfer payment to bank institutions.

• To provide tax policy of the enterprise and organize tax budget development.


Functions • To provide transfer of the taxes and fees to federal, regional and local budgets, to

state non-budget social funds stipulated by the legislation. • To manage the development of the standards of financial accounting standards and

their interconnection with the accounting records (the report forms which have not been approved at normative and legal level; terms; system of information streams and documents circulation, etc.).

• To provide the records of financial means circulation and to draw up the reports of the financial activity results according to the standards of the financial accounting and reporting, reliability of financial information; to control the correctness of the development and arrangement of the reporting documentation.

• To organize work of keeping records on the financial issues for heads and owners of the enterprise.


IMA ICC Assembly Structurally the Assembly will consist of IMA ICC

Investment Department with its own internal units: • IMA ICC government • contractors • investors • creditors Members of the Committee will be elected by the Assembly.


IMA ICC Assembly IMA ICC International Assembly is a community of

maritime authorities , organizations and maritime academies, which has declared the improvement of maritime philosophy, strategy and ways of maritime education development as their main objective.

.


IMA ICC Assembly After its foundation the Assembly will unite the

representatives of different maritime public organizations and states.


IMA ICC Assembly

- considers proposals and legislative motions; - implements its own objectives to update the

assembly to achieve the worthy place in the world system of maritime education.


IMA ICC Assembly The target of IMA ICC is to make our graduates

competitive in the world labour market owing to introduction of high quality training standards, performance of all international and national requirements for seafarers' training, including

the implementation of the highest training demands of global leading shipping companies into the training programs.


IMA ICC Assembly

Fundamental documents of IMA ICC are : - maritime declaration proclaiming the foundation

of International Maritime Assembly ICC; - charter defining tasks of its members.


Council

Approves working plans

Controls academy activity

Accepts standards, rules and procedures

Issues orders

Submits the academy budget to the

Assembly

Develops strategic planning


Management Department

Carries out public control to observe the rights and interests of the academy employees.

Structural unit of the Academy providing implementation of the academy policy on self-management issues. Tasks: - to draw up and implement the vectors aimed at the local self-management development; - to provide organizational methodical support of the local self-management activity; - to submit latest information concerning Committee activity to the Governing Board; - to render advisory assistance to the Self -administration Committee.

Public organization created by the employees to protect their social interests. Tasks: - to participate in public opinion formation; - to participate in development and implementation of the target programs; - to involve the material and intellectual resources for ensuring activity support; - to render social help to the academy employees.

3. Staff Association 2. Self Administration Committee

1. Representative in all organizations


IMA ICC Diploma

• IMA ICC Diploma will be worked out as alternative, global, irrespective of national and territorial origin document according to the ICC standard with official Academy seal. IMA ICC will develop alternative and training curriculum in training, refresher and updating training, certification of seafarers and employees of maritime industry in compliance with the International Convention STCW 1978 as amended. After finishing training the Academy Diploma will be issued.


IMA ICC Diploma • IMA ICC will be entitled to issue the Diploma of

approved standard and level of qualification, certified by IMA ICC seal, to persons successfully completed their training in accordance with implemented or education programs and passed final attestation.

• The Diploma of appropriate training level and qualification issued by IMA ICC gives their holders the same rights as provided by the State Diploma of adequate education level and qualification.


IMA ICC Diploma • Having adopted the Manila amendments to the

International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Whatchkeeping for Seafarers,1978, and to the Seafarers Training, Certification and Whatchkeeping Code, as amended (STCW Convention and Code), IMA ICC has noted with concern the reported and anticipated shortage of qualified officers to effectively man and operate ships engaged in the International Maritime Carriage of Cargoes system.


IMA ICC Diploma

• Having into consideration that the effectiveness of selection, training and certification process may be evaluated only by the assessment of knowledge, skills, abilities and competency, fully exercised by seafarers in the process of sea service on ships.


To obtain and implement into practice the highest standards of technical knowledge, skills and professional competency demonstrated by seafarers during their service on board ships

IMA ICC Diploma

ensures the fulfillment of the

following obligations

To control the compliance of personnel competency levels with conventional requirements and standards

To monitor carefully and review frequently the progress made by junior personnel in the acquisition of knowledge and skills during their service on board ships

To provide refresher and updating training at suitable intervals or should be occasion arise

To take all appropriate measures to instill pride in the maritime profession and encourage the creation of safety culture at sea and improvement of environmental culture


IMA ICC Diploma • IMA ICC Diploma recognizes the significant contribution

made to seafarers training and certification through model courses, validated and published by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), providing core curriculum based on the minimum requirements of the STCW Convention and Code, and takes into consideration that the aforementioned model courses have assisted many training institutions to improve the quality of the training they provide and have been used to improve procedures of assessing competency and achieve greater uniformity in the application of the training and assessment provisions of the STCW Convention and Code.


IMA ICC Diploma • Being aware that more than 90% of world trade

cargoes are carried by sea and recognizing the seafarers are the major participants of the shipping industry that contributes significantly to global and sustainable development and prosperity.

• Recognizing also the need for today’s increasingly sophisticated ships to be entrusted to seafarers who are competent in all respects to operate them in a safe, secure, efficient and environmentally-sound manner.


IMA ICC Diploma • Noting with concern the reported and anticipated

shortage of qualified officers to effectively man and operate ships, Convention recommends all Administrations, shipping companies, ship owners, ship managers, seafarers associations and any concerned entities to do their utmost to promote among young persons a career at sea and to retain existing seafarers within the industry.


For in this respect IMA ICC does everything possible to assist young persons have chosen the profession of seafarers and have issued the IMA

ICC Diploma by adopting and maintaining the following priorities

Engendering a more favorable public perception, in particular

among young people of the maritime industry

Encouraging all officers serving on their ships to participate actively in

the training and monitoring of junior personnel during their

service on board ship

Promoting a greater awareness and knowledge among young people of

the opportunities offered by a seafarer’s profession

Encouraging the provision of adequate accommodations and

working conditions for trainee on new-build ships

Taking all appropriate measures to instill pride in the maritime profession. Encourage the

creation of a safety culture and environmental conscience


IMA ICC Diploma • Noting the long and medium-term plans for the

Integration of Women in the Maritime sector developed by the IMO, regarding support for the latter’s aims to promote the training of women in the maritime sector, adopted by the International Labor Conference of the International Labor Organization on 22nd February 2006, considering highly desirable that both men and women have equal free access opportunities to maritime training and employment on board ships.


IMA ICC Diploma • Pay attention to gender problem in maritime

education and promote greater participation of women in maritime training at all levels in the maritime industry.

• To support the provision of on-the-job training opportunities so that women may acquire the appropriate level of practical experience required to enhance professional maritime skills.


IMA ICC Diploma • IMA ICC Diploma endeavors so that women can

participate full and without hindrance in seafaring activities in order to facilitate effectively the achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and promote gender equality and empower women.

• The order of obtaining a license in educational activity and accreditation of International Maritime Academy ICC is established by IMA ICC Government.


CONCLUSION • Noting that all leading countries around the world pay

particular attention and implement the policies of modernization and development of education systems in all fields including the maritime sector. The International Maritime Academy ICC as the center of high-level maritime education and research undertakes and fulfills the obligations and responsibilities to provide uniformity and effective implementation of IMO goals aimed at highly qualified maritime personnel training. Efficient maritime education system is the barest necessity for economic development and social prosperity ensuring the economic improvement of individual trading nations, their businesses and their workforces.


CONCLUSION • The IMO Assembly adopted resolution A 680/17/ by which it

further recognizes the need of appropriate organization of management on board ships in order to achieve and maintain the highest standards of safety, security regulations, environmental protection. It will require high levels of knowledge acquisition, appropriate professional training and approved certification of specialists engaged in maritime business.

• For the purpose the International Maritime Academy ICC constantly promotes the highest standards in maritime transportation taking into account modern developments such as containerization, multimodal transport, e-commerce and competitive, efficient transport markets worldwide.

• IMA ICC will seek to bring together shippers and carriers to elaborate global business positions on issues such as liberalization, competition and environment protection.


CONCLUSION • International Maritime Academy ICC will realize the

following practical aims: to increase the number of highly qualified personnel involved in

cargo transportation, noting that the number of international containerized cargo movement is expected to rise substantially, the number of loaded TEUs handled by the world ports may rise by eight to 10 percent per year. Trans-Pacific cargo transportation is estimated to grow at 10 to 12 percent this year. Russia's container traffic is rising by per year. Container traffic between China and its trading partners will continue to expand. To cope with surge in container traffic a great number of qualified, competent, well-skilled and well-trained maritime specialists for port, terminal and ship operations is required now.


CONCLUSION • International Maritime Academy ICC will realize the

following practical aims: to implement the International Convention on Standards of

Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers, 1978 as amended

to response to current and future customers’ requirements to render consultancy services on key international issues of

importance to maritime business to promote the market economy system based on free fair

competition activities to undertake research activities in field of maritime safety and

security, fighting against pirates for the benefit of the whole maritime business community.


CONTACTS Ukrainian National Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce

Permanent Inter-Regional Sea Administrative Commission 19-b, Reytarskaya Str., Kiev, Ukraine, 01034

Phone: +380 44 226 33 23, Fax: +380 44 270 68 29 web: www.iccua.org, e-mail: [email protected]

Eduard M. P'yatakov

Vice-Chairman ICC Ukraine on Transport and Logistics

Chairman Permanent Inter-Regional Sea Administrative Commission ICC Ukraine

Member of ICC commission on Transport and Logistics Philosophy Doctor in Navigation and Ship Traffic Monitoring

e-mail: [email protected]


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