The Maritime Academy of Asia and the Pacific -Kamaya Point is committed to being one of the world's best centers dedicated to educating and training future seamen.
Established on January 14, 1998, the campus, which sits on 18 hectares of land, is equipped with state-of-the-art facilities and is on par with other maritime schools around the globe in terms of academic excellence in maritime education and training. Its primary objective is to meet the ever increasing demand of both and local foreign shipping companies for well disciplined, ably trained, competent and qualified deck officers and marine engineers in a globally competitive maritime trade and industry.
2009 will be a milestone year for the Maritime Academy of Asia and the Pacific (MAAP). This year, the academy which was founded by Capt. Gregorio S. Oca, chairman of the Associated Marine Officers' and Seamen's Union of the Philippines (AMOSUP), is opening a second campus.
Ahead of its inauguration in June, the academy -which is located in Mariveles, Bataan - will hold a grand ceremony on April 7. Philippine president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will attend the event, as will other interested parties from Japan and the Philippines.
Two Japanese seafarer labor and management organizations -the All Japan Seamen's Union (JSU) and the International Mariners Management Association of Japan (IMMAJ)- have contributed greatly to the construction of the new campus, and will be heavily involved in its operation; therefore its name will bear the initialism: the AJSU-IMMAJ Campus.
As the Japanese organizations' involvement implies, the campus will exclusively train and educate the cadets to become officers in the Japanese commercial fleet.
The JSU-AMOSUP Training Levy Fund is supported by employer shipping companies in accordance with the labor agreements covering AMOSUP member mariners, and is used for various seamen training and education programs in the Philippines.
With the fund, the JSU and the IMMAJ have set up a scholarship system for MAAP students and plan to make it available for students at the new campus.
The JSU is also covering some of the cost of constructing MAAP's new campus out of its own welfare fund, which was established in 1993 for improving the welfare of non-Japanese seamen.
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