Marine Engineers, Others Target Dangote Refinery To Solve Cadet Seatime Challenge

The Association of Marine Engineers and Surveyors (AMES) has said that the Dangote Refinery and Petrochemicals tin assistance the Maritime Academy of Nigeria (MAN), Oron, lick the challenges of seatime for cadets successful the maritime Sector.

This was adjacent arsenic the erstwhile Fleet Manager of NLNG Ship Management Limited (NSML), Capt. Ambali Yusuf, said the authorities should instrumentality the measurement of approaching Dangote refinery for seatime for Cadets seriously.

Speaking connected Tuesday astatine the 3rd 4th 2025 Citizens and Stakeholders’ Engagement, titled, “Implementation of the National Policy connected Marine and Blue Economy for Onboard Training of Nigerian Merchant Navy Cadets and the Critical Needs of Maritine Academy of Nigeria,” the President of AMES, Engr. Issac Obadan, said the Academy tin get a batch of ships to sorb the cadets for seatime training.

According to him, Dangote vessels tin sorb much than 50% of the cadets for training, thereby solving the nation’s cadetship grooming challenges.

“Nobody is talking astir the value of Dangote refinery. If you cognize the grade of shipping engagement successful Dangote refinery successful crude oil, hydrocarbon, and adjacent refined products, if we tin make our shipping fleets astir that refinery, we tin get a batch of ships absorbing the cadets we are talking about.

“All we request arsenic a radical oregon arsenic a authorities is to fortify the grooming programme and bring it down to the refinery truthful that we tin enactment our students, our cadets connected the vessels operating into the refinery.

Such a grooming connected Dangote refinery vessels that transportation this c successful and retired tin relation connected these ships.

“Put the cadets there. You tin get this done done the lifting contracts. If you cannot sorb our Cadets, the declaration won’t beryllium renewed; we person done it before, and we tin inactive bash it again. I archer you, Dangote Vessels unsocial tin sorb much than 50% of the cadets we are talking about. We are talking of crude lipid carriers, monolithic vessels, and refineries.”

Engr. Obadan, however, called for governmental volition connected the broadside of the national authorities to execute the initiative, saying the authorities has done it earlier and tin inactive bash it again.

“The contiguous past Rector, Comm. Emmanuel Effedua, had partnerships with different shipping companies to make a concern for grooming of Cadets, the NNPC of contiguous besides had a concern grooming programme with the International Oil Companies (IOCs). The Elder Dempster which they had a concern grooming programme with and that tin beryllium updated.

“What we request is simply a governmental volition of the ministry oregon the authorities to prosecute these firm entities, whether section oregon international, it tin inactive beryllium done. Establishing a partnership, a grooming concern with them,” helium stated.

Also speaking is the erstwhile Fleet Manager of NLNG Ship Management Limited (NSML), Capt. Ambali Yusuf said the authorities should instrumentality the measurement of approaching Dangote refinery for seatime for Cadets seriously.

According to him, the authorities tin research different options specified arsenic overseas and section shipping Companies operating successful Nigeria.

“We tin attack Dangote Refinery to assistance bid our cadets onboard vessels lifting refined petroleum products from the terminals, to springiness them opportunities to spell to sea, to larn truthful that they tin beryllium liable and utile to the nation’s economy,” helium stated.