Inauguration of the New MAAP-AJSU-IMMAJ Campus

Kamaya Point, Mariveles, Bataan
07 April 2009
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo inaugurated the one billion peso academic building of the Maritime Academy of Asia and the Pacific (MAAP) in Mariveles, Bataan which features state-of-the-art training equipments and laboratories such as a Full Mission Bridge Simulator, the only one of its kind in Asia. The President led the ribbon cutting and unveiling of the marker inside the lobby of the academic building which aims to produce a steady supply of Filipino marine officers and engineers to the expanding Japanese merchant marine fleet. More than ninety percent of the seamen who work onboard approximately two thousand Japanese ships are non-Japanese, and Filipinos comprise the majority of these seamen numbering to about thirty-five thousand or seventy-two percent.