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Administrator Maximo Q Mejia Jr, PhD (far right)
Ying (middle), Class NK and Atty., Bashiruddin
Director, Maritime Safety Service, MARINA
Marina personnel train to
be ISM code auditors
The MARINA Administrator
speaking before the 24
participants of the International
Safety Management (ISM) Code
Auditor’s Training Course, 13
October 2014.
Mr. Hiroyuki Kobayashi (left), Country Manager, Class NK Philippines and Mr. Ng Kwan Ying
(right), Director, Class NK Academy Center, South Asia and Oceana as Course Lecturer of
the ISM Auditor’s Country Manager, Class NK Philippines
Mr. Hiroyuki Kobayashi (left),Course held at Bayview Park Hotel from 13-17 October 2014.
nd Mr. Ng Kwan Ying (right), Director, Class NK Academy Center,
outh Asia and Oceana as Course Lecturer of the ISM Auditor’s
The training was conducted in partnership with
ourse held at Bayview24 technical personnel #
A total of Park Hotel from 13-17 October 2014.
Class Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (NK), a member of before
The MARINAAssociation of Classification Societies the 24
Administrator speaking the
of the Maritime Industry Authority International
(IACS), with the help of
country manager (ISM)
(MARINA) underwent a five-day International Safetyits Management Mr. KwanCode
Hiroyuki Kobayashi, and Course Lecturer Mr. Ng
Course, Class NK, Singapore.
Auditor’s Training Course on
Ying of 13 October 2014.
According to Mejia, the training-course was carried
out in line with the continuing efforts of MARINA to
enhance and improve the capabilities of the Agency’s
technical personnel in the aspect of auditing the safety
management of ships and shipping companies based on
the standards set by the ISM Code.
Those participants who will successfully passed the
rigorous and comprehensive examinations during
ARINA Administrator Dr. Maximo Q.
the live-in seminar will still have to undergo further
Mejia, Jr. (PhD), in opening the fivetraining as ‘audit observers’ preceding to becoming’ fullday course, underscored the relevance
fledged’ MARINA ISM auditors, who will be included
of the training-course in order to
in the existing pool of MARINA’s regular auditors.
effectively meet the Administration’s
Compliance with the ISM Code has been
commitment of promoting and
mandatory In domestic shipping since 1999 upon
professionalizing maritime safety and environmental
the implementation of MARINA Circular No. 143 for
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protection, explaining the ISM Code belongs to the
particular vessels covered by the said circular, and since
IME PHILIPPINES, we regulations likewise geared to do
regime of maritime move the world
1998 in international shipping under the provisions
away with human error which is a contributing factor in
of chapter IX of the International Convention for the
numerous tragic accidents agency
Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) of 1974.
ustry Authority is an attached in the sea.of the Department of Transportation and
International Safety Management
(ISM) at Bayview Park Hotel,
Manila.
M
tasked to accelerate the integrated development of the maritime industry in
as been implementing reforms and programs to transform the country’s
g industry to global competitiveness and the MARINA into a premiere maritime
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Southeast Asia. For more information, visit marina.gov.ph.