Earlier this week, Union Shipping Minister G K Vasan officiated at a gathering on board the MV AMET Majesty, India’s first cruise liner. The ship is also a training ship. The acronym AMET stands for “Academy of Maritime Education and Training.” AMET University is operating the ship as both a cruise ship for 1,150 passengers and a training ship for 90 nautical cadets and 120 engineering cadets. How this hybrid operation will function remains to be seen, but one has to admire the evident enthusiasm. The cruise marketing site promises “a total royal treat on a seven star category cruise liner.” I have never seen a crusie ship rating higher than five stars, so seven stars sounds very impressive.
Vasan flags off first Indian cruise ship
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please send me details as to how we can make reservations for the cruise
Your best best is to contact Amet Cruises – http://ametcruises.com/index.htm
I want to know whether you will give an opportunity to train the Deck or Engine cadets passing out from various colleges/Institutes(awarding degree in Nautical Science or Marine Engineering) which are not affiliated with AMET university. If you keep a provision for outside cadets , what will be the charges for undergoing training for six months ? What will be other criteria etc.?
Regards,
B.K.Bhaumik
You should contact AMET University
am pradeep am pursuing marine engineering in AMET University.sorry to say this because this university is highly concentrated on its student developement so they dont offer of other colleges or institute and infuture if there is any such kinda offers like inplant or internship training in AMET Majesty let me bring it to ur knowledge
-best wishes
It will be interesting to see how this cadet cum cruise liner concept works. Cadets are generally cheap labour and make a Chief officer’s work much lighter – as he doesn’t have to keep driving his crew to work at maintenance – just call the cadet. However, these young men (don’t know if there are any women) will have to be surplus to the Minimum safe manning and cannot replace crew. They will, therefore, be eating into accommodation and earning capacity.
Looking at the schedule on the company website, the ship will be doing overnight cruises – pretty taxing for the watchkeepers bt not much good for the cadets.
I agree. It is not an an easy task to run either a cruise line or a training ship. To run an operation that attempts to do both will face some unique challenges.
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sir ship is nice but change mangement people not suitable or shipping
Its neither a Training ship nor a cruise liner , its just an oppertunity for AMET to make more money. Heard that they are asking 8 lakhs for placement onboard and stipehnd of 50 $ is what we are looking at.
I know AMET well, for am an ex-student there !!
There hands are deep inside the honey pot !!!