The Andhra Pradesh Government inked a MoU with State Marine Technical University of St. Petersburg to promote marine education and technology at St. Petersburg today on the 5th day of the foreign tour.
The University works in close connection with United Shipbuilding Corporation and Roseboron export.
Companies involved in the marine segment in India and AP will benefit from this collaboration. Through a power point presentation, the University authorities highlighted their capabilities.
They said 60 % of their graduates are employed by shipbuilding university.
Rakhmanov Alexey, President of United Shipbuilding Corporation said that the state university is considering to making AP the headquarters of the company in India since AP has unique marine activity.
Highlighting the opportunities available , The Chief Minister said AP is set to become a logistics hub in India.
“We want to promote inland navigation and also the commercial usage of water transport. Water-based transport is cheaper when compared to other forms of transport,” the CM said.
Expressing happiness to associate with the Maritime University, the Chief Minister said that AP is planning to encourage marine education in a big way.
“We will set up maritime university immediately. We have Hindustan Shipyard limited with excellent infrastructure,” the CM remarked.
During the presentation, the University authorities said that they conducted an international conference on underwater technologies in 2014 and have helped set up a Harbin engineering university in China. The Harbin University concentrates on naval architecture and marine engineering.
The Maritime University is a home for 5000 students at present and scholars from the United States of America, China, France, Finland, Sweden, Germany, South Korea, Singapore, Brazil and Netherlands participate in the conferences.
The university has a course on Marine Economics and also Maritime law. Maritime law is taught with a view to familiarize maritime engineers with law and economics related to oceans said the University officials.
Dikiy Alexev , Strugov Leonid, . Appolonov Evgeny represented the Maritime University.
Yanamala Ramakrishnudu, Dr Parakala Prabhakar, . Sai Prasad, Krishna Kishore, Ajay Jain and Laxminarayana were present in the meeting. (NSS)