The Norwegian maritime Foundation of the Philippines Inc. (NMFPI) is inviting highly motivated technical persons to fill up the position for Head of Welding Section, Technical and Bridge Simulator Instructors of our Norwegian Training Center – Manila (NTC-M). For more details please click on our Careers or Job Opportunity link. . . . . .

This year, NSA Philippines Cadet program yields 62% of its graduates are recipients of various Academic Awards and recognition from their respective maritime Schools. A total of 85 Magna Cum Laude, 117 Cum Laude, 7 With High Hon-ors, 9 with Honors, and 24 Academic Excellence Awards were given to these cadets. For more details please click on our Newsletter link. . . . . .

A new course at NTC-M intended for deck officers, and designed to supplement their technical acquaintance about engineering systems onboard, has been developed.

OSLO, Norway - The Norwegian Shipping Association (NSA) turned over 1 million kroner (around P8 million) to the Red Cross here for its relief and rehabilitation work with the typhoon victims in the Philippines. In the hand-over ceremony held at the NSA office in Oslo, NSA Ceo Sturla Henriksen said his organization is "glad to be of help to the Philippines" and said he hopes that the money will "contribute both to the urgent relief efforts and to the long-term rebuilding of the flood-ravaged areas." Secretary General of the Norwegian Red Cross Boerge Brende who received the check on his organizations behalf, thanked the NSA and called the NSA donation as a "treasured contribution to the Red Cross reconstruction efforts" in the Philippines which was ravaged by two major typhoons, Ketsana and Parma (known in the Philippines as Ondoy and Pepeng) in September and October. He also assured the Philippine ambassador to Norway, Elizabeth Buensuceso who witnessed the turn-over, that the Red Cross in Norway will "make sure that those people who are most affected by (the typhoons) will have a new chance in going back to their situation before they were affected by the natural disasters." For her part, Ambassador Buensuceso said she was "overwhelmed by the expression of support of the NSA and Norway" who she revealed "took it upon themselves to come out and contribute in a large way to the victims of typhoons. Aside from the NSA contribution, Norway pledged 20 million kroner (160 million pesos) to the Philippines for its disaster response work. The International Red Cross issued an emergency appeal in October, urging other countries to give cash, kind, or services to the support the Philippine National Red Cross (PNRC) to scale up its responses to the disasters hitting the country. as of 12/07/2009 2:09 AM

In the event of the disastrous storm “ONDOY”, the Management of the Norwegian Maritime Foundation of the Phils. Inc. (NMFPI) extended a donation . . . For more details see in our newsletter.

Mr. Lars Bleymann will be taking the position of Project Manager at NTC-M, for more information see the link in our Newsletter.

New events and happenings on NTC-M. For more details please click on our Newsletter link. . .

New Course Contribution is now uploaded on the NTC-M Website, changes on Course Contribution is effective on April 1, 2009.

NMFPI welcomes Mr. Stein Eriksen as the New NTC-M Managing Director. He took over the postion last January 5, 2009.