As part of IMO's efforts to give effect to this year's World Maritime Day theme of Maritime Education and Training, IMO has carried out a fact-finding mission to the Ethiopian Maritime Training Institute (EMTI), with a view to helping the institute upgrade its facilities (21 July). EMTI provides specialised training for deck, engineer and electro-technical officers for ships, in compliance with the IMO convention that specifies global standards of training, certification and watchkeeping for seafarers (the STCW Convention).
Juvenal Shiundu and William Azuh from IMO’s Technical Co-operation Division undertook the mission, assisted by officials from the Ethiopian Maritime Affairs Authority and from EMTI. EMTI operates as a faculty within the University of Bahir Dar, Ethiopia.