DFDS apprenticeship 'Passing Out' ceremony It was some two years ago that DFDS began training rating apprenticeships, and the programme has proved its worth to the extent that apprenticeships are now a key part of their seafarer workforce development plan. The first 'Passing Out' ceremony of its kind took place on the DFDS 'Dover Seaways'

MNTB welcomes the opening of the new Maritime Skills Academy at Dover. The Dover-based Maritime Skills Academy was formally opened on 8 September by Sir Allan Massey, CEO of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency and Guy Platten, CEO of the U.K. Chamber of Shipping. Opening speeches congratulated the Jaenicke family, and Dieter Jaenicke, the founding

MNTB staff attend Outward Bound course with new MEF cadets Last week Donna Stevens and Fena Boyle went to the Outward Bound centre at Eskdale in the Lake District for the four day induction course designed for the start of training for the new intake of Maritime Educational Foundation (MEF) cadets.  Fena provides strategy support