Boca Raton, FL - The ACMF has taken its scholarship and grant application digital with an easy-to-use platform https://apply.acmfdn.org/
The site which accepts applications from high school and tertiary level students is open from January 1st, with a deadline of April 30th for all applications to be submitted. “I think students will find the portal easy to use and the platform makes the application more accessible to students across the Caribbean”, says Dr. Brown Metzger, President of the American Caribbean Maritime Foundation.
ACMF has funded full tuition and grants for approximately two hundred scholars and grantees in nine Caribbean countries, namely, Jamaica, Bahamas, Suriname, St. Lucia, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, Dominican Republic, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Guyana.
With the shipping industry beginning to look at non-traditional sources for talent, the Caribbean is starting to take its place among the United States, China, and the Philippines as a rich source of world-class talent for the cruise, cargo and the oil and gas sectors, including on- and offshore. “Our focus is on professional positions”, according to Juan Carlos Croston, Vice President, Marketing and Corporate Affairs at Manzanillo International Terminal – PANAMA, who also serves as Chair of the ACMF Scholarship Committee. Mr. Croston continues, “ACMF scholars have demonstrated their talent and the world-class training they receive at our academic partners”.
The Caribbean is competitive in quality of training, diversity of skill sets, and geographic proximity for all workers in the industry. Jamaica alone churns out hundreds of officer level talent annually, many with Bachelors in navigation and engineering. Additionally, the country potentially generates STCW-qualified and ratings candidates in the thousands.
