Inaugurated academic year 2012 of the Italian Academy of Marina Mercantile



Today in the center of the Harbour Authority of Genoa to Saint George Palace the inauguration of academic year 2012 of the Italian Academy of the Marina Mercantile has held, to which the representatives of the marine world have participated to all whom they rotate around the school and to professional training of the officials.

In illustrating the activity of the institution, founded to Genoa in 2005 and anticipates from 2009 to Torre del Greco with a detached center, the director of the Academy, Daniela Fara, has listed some esemplificativa figure: in the 2012 number of the candidates introduced to the selections (243 boys for the Covered course of and 78 for that of Car) have exceeded that of 2005. This data - it has emphasized - confirmation on one side the success of the formative distance persecuted by the Academy and the other the moment of deep economic crisis, here where to find a boarding more and more difficult operation is revealed.

From 2005 to the 2012 Academy it has organized 22 course for official of navigation and 14 for car official. On 394 enrolled totals to the Blanket course they navigate currently as officials in 201, on 245 enrolled of Car in 86. The majority of the candidates to the course of the Academy comes from the regions of marine tradition (Liguria, Sicily, Apulia, Sardinia, Campania); thanks to the alignment course the basin of user has been increased also to the regions not traditionally marine, as the Lombardy.
The didactic Deck plan previews 1,010 hours, that of Car 890 hours. In the formative distance the twelve previewed months of boarding from the international norm are comprised. Al term of the two years can approach the examination near the marine Directions where to achieve the initial title of the career on the sea, that of third official.

The navigation companies are a some thirty that give 2005 today have chosen to collaborate with the Academy: mainly Costa Crociere, ESAs, Large the Navi Veloci, Messina, but also others that have appeared recently, between which I raise, Premuda, Calisa.

Carrying topic of the day, that it is continued with a round table, has been the organization of the formative cluster of the Economy of the Sea. They are taken part Elena Ugolini undersecretary to the Instruction, Mario Mattioli, vice-president of Confitarma, Cinzia Voso of the ministry of Infrastructures and Transports, Gian Enzo Duci, president of Assagenti, Carlo Lombardi, general secretary of the Federation of the Sea, Wladimiro Iozzi, managing scholastic of Istituto Nautico San Giorgio, and Eugenio Massolo, president of Foundation ITS Accademia.