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GERMAN Ship Repair Jamaica Limited (GSRJ) has partnered with Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) to undertake its skills training programme, aimed at increasing employment in the logistics and maritime industries.
Speaking with JIS News, public relations and human resource manager at GSRJ, Dr Birte Timm, pointed out that the two-year training programme entails theory and apprenticeship components covering aspects of ship repair and welding.
“This training initiative is stemming from the fact that there is no ship repair industry in Jamaica at present. The closest facilities available are in Curaçao and The Bahamas, which primarily attract the cruise vessels, but for the container ships for which Jamaica is one of the main destinations in the region as a trans-shipment port, we have no skill sets readily available in Jamaica that are required to work on those huge container vessels,” Dr Timm noted.
“In Germany, there is a great respect for skills training, skilled labour and trade, so after a person goes through the apprenticeship programme for two years, they get a very valuable certificate. And these people are not just handymen, they are technical experts, and from this position they move up in their companies and continue to grow their expertise and have very well-paid jobs,” Dr Timm pointed out.
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Speaking with JIS News, public relations and human resource manager at GSRJ, Dr Birte Timm, pointed out that the two-year training programme entails theory and apprenticeship components covering aspects of ship repair and welding.
“This training initiative is stemming from the fact that there is no ship repair industry in Jamaica at present. The closest facilities available are in Curaçao and The Bahamas, which primarily attract the cruise vessels, but for the container ships for which Jamaica is one of the main destinations in the region as a trans-shipment port, we have no skill sets readily available in Jamaica that are required to work on those huge container vessels,” Dr Timm noted.
“In Germany, there is a great respect for skills training, skilled labour and trade, so after a person goes through the apprenticeship programme for two years, they get a very valuable certificate. And these people are not just handymen, they are technical experts, and from this position they move up in their companies and continue to grow their expertise and have very well-paid jobs,” Dr Timm pointed out.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...5?profile=1373
Paul Marin -19 is one thing, 20 is a whole other matter. It gets even worse if they win the UCL. *groan*. 
05/18/2011.MU fans naah cough, but all a unuh a vomit?-Lazie 1/11/2015