Nay Pyi Taw December 24
State Administration Council Chairman Prime Minister Senior General Min Aung Hlaing inspects Myanmar Maritime University
Chairman of the State Administration Council Prime Minister Senior General Min Aung Hlaing accompanied by Council members General Maung Maung Kyaw and Lt-Gen Moe Myint Tun, Joint Secretary Lt- Gen Ye Win Oo, Union ministers, senior military officers from the Office of the Commanderin-Chief, the Chief Minister of Yangon Region, the commander of Yangon Command, the mayor and officials inspected the Myanmar Maritime University under the Ministry of Transport and Communications in Thilawa region of Thanlyin Township in Yangon Region this morning. The Senior General and party were welcomed by Member of the State Administration Council Union Minister for Transport and Communications Admiral Tin Aung San, Rector MMU Dr Myat Lwin, pro-rectors and professors/ heads of department.
At the meeting hall, the Admiral and the rector reported to the Senior General on background history of the university, implementation of the assigned missions, organizational setup of the university, academic measures, training of the university meeting international standards, practical training, cooperation with international universities, and participation of the university in the state projects.
After hearing the reports, the Senior General said that this university is valuable university for the State. Myanmar possesses more than 140,000 square miles of water territory and more than 1,260 miles of coastal areas. The Ayeyawady, the Chindwin and the Thanlwin rivers are facilitated with ports. The university turns out the maritime professionals who are of importance in local and international maritime transport. It is necessary to appoint those graduated from the university. It is an employmentfor Myanmar to show their skills for development of the nationand creation of job opportunity. The management for ports is important for development of the nation. Weak management can be seen at some ports. Ongoing implementation must be undertaken for construction of the ports meeting international standards. Hence, the graduates from the university must be deployed for management of small and large ports so as to contribute much to the development of the nation.
Likewise, the Senior General stressed the need to systematically maintain the water ways of rivers and creeks across the nation. It is necessary to improve the banks as well as beautify the rivers and creeks with the plan to proper driving of vessels there. The transport comprises motor transport, aviation, rail transport and waterway transport. The waterway transport is the cheapest in transporting a large number of cargo. Myanmar must utilize Ayeyawady, Thanlwin, Chindwin and Sittoung rivers the best. The professions turned out by the university must serve for the State.
Port management is of importance in maritime sector. Hence, it is necessary to study the management subject through modern technologies in line with the international norms. Likewise, maritime professionals and those from the Ministry of Electricity and Energy are to join hands in generating hydropower through the ordinary current as renewable energy. With regard to the ship building, Hsinmaleik shipyard built river vessels and coastal vessels in the past. Myanmar needs to build the ocean trade vessels and other vessels to extract the natural resources from the seas while conserving the sea resources.
The ship building engineers who graduated from the university need to serve at the ship building works of the nation. As part of emerging the outstanding ship builders, the Senior General stressed the need to give practical exercises to the students. The ship building professionals from the university need to lead the ship building process at the shipyards of the nation. The university needs to produce the more qualified professionals to be able to shoulder to shoulder with those from the international community. Hence, necessary faculty members will be added to the university for giving effective training to the students.
Effective maintenance must be undertaken for cleaning of rivers, creeks and seas as natural ones. The maritime tourism is one of the various kinds of tourism industry. The university needs to strive for maintaining the existing success and securing more successes. Although democratic countries just control the private businesses, the government manages some sectors in Myanmar due to various reasons. Hence, the university will be facilitated with buildings and teaching aid to keep abreast of international community. It is necessary to create the good environs for the students and development of social lives. And, efforts must be made for providing assistance to them to stand on their own on completion of the training. Arrangements must be made for students to comprehensively understand the teaching of faculty members. Moreover, it is necessary to encourage the students to use and read the books supporting the teaching and others for the current era through digital technology.
The graduates from the university need to have skills of spoken English and reading for having the proficiency English to associate with those from the international community and skills of computer science as well. The Senior General stressed the need to fulfill the needs of accommodation, security and foods for the students as it is not ordinary university education in order to become the symbol in the universities of international community.
The Senior General and party inspected the academic and management qualification scrutiny office of the university and library. They also viewed round skillful operation of engines and related materials and solving of emergency situation the full mission engine room simulator department. The rector and officials conducted the Senior General and party around the sectors. The Senior General discussed needs for giving training to the students from the small vessels to the ocean liners with the use of basic knowledge.
The MMU was opened for its first batch at the compound of Myanmar Mercantile Marine College in Sinmalaik of Kamayut Township in 2002. Then, the university was moved to Thilawa area in Thanlyin Township in 2003. The university was established with the aim of contributing to the modernity and development of the nation, turning out the qualified maritime professionals, giving the science and technology, managing for constant development of maritime science, enabling the maritime professionals to understand the provisions adopted by the International Maritime Organization and conducting the researches for improvement of maritime science. It conducts the undergraduate course, postgraduate diploma courses and master’s engineering courses. The university has turned out 4,137 graduates, 1,052 diploma holders and 17 ME graduates from 2007 to 2020.
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