The Port and Terminal Management Academy of Nigeria (POTEMAN) has said that it is partnering a Benin Republic-based university; Shepherd University in order to start awarding Bachelor of Science Degrees in Logistics and Transport.
Registrar of POTEMAN; Dr. Babatunde Samuel dropped the hint in a chat with Shipping Position Daily on the sidelines of ?the Academy’s 2015 Continuous Mandatory Professional Training Workshop of POTEMAN which held in Lagos last week.
The Port and Terminal Management Academy of Nigeria (POTEMAN) has said that it is partnering a Benin Republic-based university; Shepherd University in order to start awarding Bachelor of Science Degrees in Logistics and Transport.
Registrar of POTEMAN; Dr. Babatunde Samuel dropped the hint in a chat with Shipping Position Daily on the sidelines of ?the Academy’s 2015 Continuous Mandatory Professional Training Workshop of POTEMAN which held in Lagos last week.
Babatunde explained that the collaboration was born out of the fact that most employers of labour in the shipping and maritime sector are more interested in employing graduates to work in their organization.
"We have got a little franchise and collaborative system with a university in Benin Republic called Shepherd University for BSc conversion, because as far as this industry is concerned, most employers of labour are looking forward to BSc holders?"
"So we are working out modalities in terms of BSc logistics and transport in this regard, I believe at the end of the day we should synergies on this" he said.
?Speaking on the continuous mandatory training workshop of the academy, he said the programme is to update fellows and members of the academy on latest issues as far as port and terminal management is concerned and to interface with one another.
The programme was attended by fellows and members of POTEMAN from Port Harcout, Onne? and Lagos.
"This programme was also crowned by the fact that we are also doing what we called; young, professional, port and terminal competition where we have four topics we ask students to write on; one of the topics is port congestion".
He assured that the continuous mandatory programme comes up two times in year, this is for the Western zone, he added that POTEMAN is still going to Bayelsa for the Eastern or South South Zone.
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