WORLD MARITIME UNIVERSITY

Since WMU was founded in 1983, the University has established an excellent reputation as the global centre for advanced education, training and research for specialist personnel from the international maritime community. In the years ahead, we shall be seeking to enhance this reputation even further. Over 2,000 WMU graduates can now be found in over 140 countries throughout the world. They maintain close links both with the University and among themselves, furthering IMO’s objectives of encouraging and facilitating the highest practicable standards in maritime safety and the prevention and control of pollution of the marine environment. Many of our graduates hold senior positions in maritime education, as heads of institutions or as professors. Others hold key posts in maritime administrations, ports and shipping companies, or represent their governments in a range of capacities, enabling them to influence and direct policy in their countries and regions. WMU graduates are also increasingly called upon to contribute to international maritime forums, including IMO. To those students who are joining the University in 2006, I extend a warm welcome to the WMU Community on behalf of the Chancellor, Governors and all WMU staff. We sincerely hope that your stay with us will be both profitable and enjoyable, and that you will acquire knowledge and skills to further your career, contribute to the development of your country and improve co-operation within the international maritime sector. PO Box 500, S-201 24 Malm, Sweden Street address: Citadellsv. 29, 21118 Malm Telephone: +46 - 40 - 35 63 00 Fax: +46 - 40 - 12 84 42 Internet: http://www.wmu.se Electronic mail: info@wmu.se