STC-Korea welcomes 30 new students in Master program

Netherlands Maritime University welcomes a new class of high potential students for the Master Shipping and Transport program at its STC-Korea campus, starting Monday March 16th, 2009. The 30 students have been qualified for admission of this full English Master degree program for maritime and port professionals.

This program is provided on location at STC-Korea in the Gwangyang Bay Free Economic Zone. The accreditation, management and full responsibility is in the hands of the Netherlands Maritime University, which is part of the Dutch based Foundation STC-Group.

For the academic year 2009-2010, the Netherlands Maritime University interviewed almost 60 candidates of which finally 30 highly skilled students were chosen to study in their advanced shipping and transport courses. This group is composed of 14 nationalities of which 10 students are Korean.

Among the students, STC-Korea also welcomes representatives of Gwangyang City Hall and of Jeollanam-do Provincial Government.

The Netherlands Maritime University and STC-Korea sincerely thank the City of Gwangyang, Jeollanam-do Province, the Korean Container Terminal Association and Gwangyang Bay Free Economic Zone for their continuous support. This shows the significance of this Dutch venture for Korea and another step in the continuation of a long lasting partnership.

In September 2007, Foundation STC-Group opened its branch school in Gwangyang-City. This development is part of the STC-Group vision to establish knowledge hubs in major transportation clusters in the world. The opening of a branch school in Korea is unprecedented, being the first established and accredited Foreign Educational Institution in Korea.

NMU Master Shipping and Transport course is currently running in 2 STC-Group locations, Rotterdam and Gwangyang.

The STC-Group is a world-wide strategic combination of well-established education, training, research, support, consultancy and implementation service providers for the entire shipping, port, transport and logistics chain as well as for the port-related oil and chemical industry. Next to the activities in the Netherlands, the STC-Group has knowledge hubs and subsidiaries in countries as Vietnam, South-Africa, Oman, Korea and the Philippines. In another fifty countries it provides consultancy, training and education projects. More than 500 people are employed at the STC-Group.<Korea Shipping Gazette>