Batumi State Maritime Academy (BSMA, ka, ბათუმის სახელმწიფო საზღვაო აკადემია) is an internationally

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higher-education maritime school in Batumi, Georgia. The institution's main function is to prepare qualified staff for employment within the marine-trade fleet and maritime transport infrastructure. Batumi State Maritime Academy provides an educational process that is in accordance with Georgian

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as well as the international STCW Convention.

History

Batumi Maritime Technical University was inaugurated in 1929. On March 5, 1944, the self-defense committee of the

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created the Batumi Maritime Institute. The institute played an important role in the development of maritime activities in the

as a whole. The institute has taught up to 5,000 highly qualified maritime specialists; their graduates continue to work on ocean ships across the world. The academy was created by the Georgian government in 1992, shortly after gaining independence following the

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. Following the nationwide reform of the education system in 2004, BSMA received legal status as a teaching university on April 25, 2005. One of the most notable persons to have studied in the academy was Anatoli Kacharava. Briefly after

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he began teaching there as a full-time lecturer. After his death in 1982, he was honourably buried on the grounds of the academy.History of Georgian seafaring — Merab Megrelishvili, Shota Makharadze, 2012, Tbilisi

Education

The academy offers education in many fields within the maritime industry. Maritime graduates occupy leadership positions on crews of maritime trade ships, maritime crewing companies and other public and private maritime services, whose activities are related to maritime transport, control and management. BSMA promotes the development of maritime institutions in the

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region. Its proximity to

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and Kulevi ports and

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customs create excellent conditions for students to work with qualified staff. Maritime transportation and related services or activities are regulated by national legislation and by international regulations, such as the International Maritime Organization (IMO). The basic legislative document of IMO is the STCW Convention. Georgia joined the convention in 1993, giving BSMA the responsibility of preparing qualified staff for international maritime trading and shipping industries. The core of the education system of the college is its maritime engineering faculty. However, the second largest faculty, called Business and Management, also enjoys popularity within high-school seniors willing to receive education within this field. The academy frequently receives international delegations from Poland, Norway, Ireland, Turkey, and others, some of which are within the European

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programme while others establish student exchange programs, mutual training and general partnership agreements. A maritime student training centre was opened in 2014 with the help of the local and central governments of Georgia, which cost 2 million Georgian Lari. The training centre, acting under IMO regulations, operates a professional sailing

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for the maritime faculty students, as well as safety and firefighting equipment necessary for certification under the guidelines of the STCW Convention.http://www.interpressnews.ge/ge/regioni/306984-saqarthvelosa-da-latviis-prezidentebma-bathumshi-ganakhlebuli-sazghvao-akademiis-sastsavlo-centri-gakhsnes.html?ar=A A typical day in the academy begins with the semi-military style line-up of students in the morning (for the maritime faculty), during which the names of the present students are recorded. After the traditional ceremony of raising the Georgian flag as well as the flag of the academy, while the

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is played by the university orchestra, students proceed to their classes.https://bsma.edu.ge/new/text_files/ge_file_127_1.pdf Students are required to wear the academy uniforms, which are provided to them on the first semester of the first year. All freshmen are also required to undergo a certain number of watchkeeping exercises on the territory of the academy.

Academic programs

Education programs are implemented by two certification programs and three bachelors programs.

Maritime faculty

Bachelor's

* Maritime navigation *

Marine engineering Marine engineering is the engineering of boats, ships, submarines, and any other marine vessel. Here it is also taken to include the engineering of other ocean systems and structures – referred to in certain academic and professional circl ...

* Marine electromechanics

Master's

* Marine Transport Management * Ship's Power Plants and Mechanisms * Ship's and Sea Ports Electric and Power Plants

Business and Management faculty

Bachelor's

* Organization and Logistics of Maritime Transportation *

Port Management Port management involves the management of ports. Larger ports According to a syllabus of the United Nations University: :Large ports need to deal with a number of disparate activities: the movement of ships, containers, and other cargo, the loa ...

* Tourism - Cruise Tourism Management

Master's

* Logistics and Expediting * International Business Management * Banking

References

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