Anglo-Eastern has established the Anglo-Eastern Maritime Academy in Mumbai, India, with the first intake of cadets to commence in August 2009.
The Anglo-Eastern Group has full technical management of close to 300 ships of all types and sizes, plus a further 70-odd for which it supplies crew only. The company employs nearly 11,000 seafarers of various nationalities and runs a training centre equipped with LNG, LPG, chemical and oil simulators, shiphandling simulators, engine simulator and a complete engine room workshop.
At present, Anglo-Eastern employs over 550 cadets onboard its fleet and this initiative will further ensure its long term supply of quality crews in the years to come.
Anglo-Eastern's Maritime Academy sees the acquisition of an existing school set on a 53-acre site, including hostel capacity for 240 students. The site is situated in Karjat, near Mumbai.
"We aim to build on our existing reputation in the field of maritime training to become one of the top maritime colleges in the world," said Capt. Pradeep Chawla, Director of Quality Assurance and Training.
"Together with our present training centre, situated in Mumbai City, we will have the largest and most well-equipped training establishment in India. It has been a long wait to realise this strategic goal of being able to fully control the quality of teaching of our young recruits, right from the start."
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