Taipei — World-leading classification society Det Norske Veritas (DNV) today officially opened a maritime academy in Taipei. The fifth in Greater China, ‘DNV Academy Taiwan’ is dedicated to improving technological and management competence for industry practioners.
DNV President and CEO Henrik O. Madsen and President of National Kaohsiung Marine University George C.T. Chen officially opened the Academy. Dr. Madsen also attended and spoke at the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Forum which was held today in conjunction with the opening of the Academy.
“DNV has a tradition of providing training to our customers worldwide. I’m pleased to see DNV Region Greater China succeeds in this tradition and has formed a wide academy network,” comments Dr. Madsen.
“DNV Academy is a way for us to impart knowledge and expertise to our customers by drawing on the decades of accumulated experience, research and development that DNV has accrued globally,” says DNV Vice President and Regional Manager for Greater China Bjorn K. Haugland at the Academy opening ceremony.
“The establishment of DNV Academy Taiwan demonstrates DNV’s further commitment to the maritime industry development in Taiwan,” adds Mr. Haugland.
The Academy will provide the maritime industry with technical expertise by running regular courses for ship owner technical staff, superintendants, designers and shipbuilders. It offers a wide range of training courses including standard and customised programmes to meet customers’ specific needs.
Each year the courses and seminars run by DNV academies help more than 5000 participants worldwide gain qualifications and keep updated on technology in a broad range of topics in the maritime field.
Since the first academy was established in Dalian in June 2005, more than 1500 participants have been trained through DNV’s academy network in Greater China, including Dalian, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Guangzhou. DNV has developed 30 different course titles in the region and will continuously develop the portfolio according to customers’ needs.
“DNV Academy Taiwan will focus on providing technological training and management support for shipowners, yards, designers and others,” says the newly appointed Taiwan District Manager James Wu.
“The maritime industry has been playing a very important role in Taiwan’s economy development. The Taiwan shipping cluster represents world-leading competency. As a leading class society in the district, we see it our responsibility to help the industry to excel in their business,” continues Mr. Wu.
DNV Senior Customer Manager Orion Hsu points out that Taiwan attaches great importance on the maritime education with many maritime educational and training centres in the district. All these centres are certified by DNV. Mr. Hsu says, “DNV Academy Taiwan complements with these established local training centres. We will cooperate with them to meet the increasing training demands from the industry.”
“DNV will continue to reinforce its position in Greater China as a partner to our maritime customers by not only providing classification, certification and verification services, but also help the industry to improve and develop technological competence. The opening of the DNV Academy Taiwan demonstrates this commitment,” concludes Mr. Haugland.