NYK to Sponsor Specialized Course in Marine Business at Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology
November 1, 2004
Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) has announced its sponsorship of a "Specialized Lecture Course on Marine Business" at the Faculty of Marine Technology, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, National University Corporation (TUMSAT), renamed from Tokyo University of Mercantile Marine, from October 2005.
Since October 2000, the Company has been sponsoring open lectures at the TUMSAT Faculty as one of its Corporate Citizenship Activities. From October 2005, however, the open lectures will become a sponsored course providing academic credits.
Through these open lectures, the Company has been focusing on actual business case studies with lectures given by the Company's employees and also special overseas guests such as Captain A.J. Swift from Nautical Institute, UK, delivering a lecture entitled "Bridge team management*" and Superintendent Jung Sok, Kang of Hyundai Merchant Marine Japan on "Globalization of the marine industry and how shipping companies are responding." For the newly established sponsored course, the Company will invite business experts and specialists as lecturers, from other fields as well as from marine related companies, to make the course even more productive and fruitful.
One year after its foundation, TUMSAT is strengthening cooperation between industries and academia. Through this sponsored academic course, the Company intends to foster highly capable and professional engineers in the field of marine affairs for the next generation by lecturing on current issues, business operations and future prospects for the industry for students who will uphold the development of marine industries.
The Company also held open lectures at the Faculty of Economics, both at Aoyama University and the University of Tokyo in 2003 and 2004, and plans to do the same at Kobe University in 2005.
Thus, NYK will continue pursuing the realization of a better global society by ploughing various management assets back into educational fields.
* Bridge team management
The idea of management to prevent mistakes caused by human error or to lessen the influence of actual mistakes immediately, by maximizing team power (Master, officers and other crew), on the bridge deck of a vessel.