{"id":17543,"date":"2020-10-28T19:32:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T19:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/tanzania\/?p=17543"},"modified":"2020-10-28T19:32:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T19:32:32","slug":"nit-supports-govts-blue-economy-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/economy\/nit-supports-govts-blue-economy-initiative","title":{"rendered":"NIT SUPPORTS GOVT\u2019S BLUE ECONOMY INITIATIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AfricaPress-Tanzania:<\/strong> IN supporting the government\u2019s efforts to promote ocean based blue economy, the National Institute of Transport (NIT) will in this academic year start offering courses that will include ship building and repair programme.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe blue economy is very important to economic development and prosperity of all in the country, that\u2019s why we have introduced a diploma in ship building and repair programme,\u201d said the NIT Rector, Prof Zacharia Mganilwa.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Mganilwa said that apart from introducing a diploma programme on ship building and repair in 2020\/21 academic year, the Institute will also establish a Bachelor\u2019s Degree in Shipping and Port Logistics Management (BSPLM).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2020\/21 academic year, we have also introduced ordinary diploma in shipping and port logistic operations as well as bachelor\u2019s degree in naval architecture, aiming at producing local technicians and engineers who will be capable of building ships,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Students wishing to pursue shipping and port logistics operations diploma must have basic technician certificate in related field recognized by the National Council for Technical Education (NACTE),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>For ship building and repair diploma course, students are required to have completed form four with minimum of D grade and passes in physics\/engineering, science, basic mathematics, chemistry and English.<\/p>\n<p>The Rector noted: \u201cApart from introducing the maritime courses, we will introduce other courses to support the initiative, including ordinary diploma in road and railway logistics operations as well as bachelor\u2019s degree in road and railway transport logistics management (BRRTLM).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eng Mganilwa further said that maritime transport is the linchpin of the economy because it supports commercial flows more efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>Elaborating, Prof Mganilwa said: \u201cWe have introduced such courses on road and railway to support the maritime, because the railway and the road are closely coordinated with maritime sector by transporting goods from or to the ports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApart from those new courses, we will also establish a diploma courses on pipe work, oil and gas engineering which is staged to start in 2020\/2021 academic year, and will be a key programme that will generate licensed welders,\u201d the Rector said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the licensed welders will be capable of working in Hoima-Tanga oil pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>In another development, Professor Mganilwa said that their institute is a trainer of technologists and managers who are working in the transport sector to strengthen the national industrialization agenda as a way of contributing to the economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that NIT as a higher learning institution takes deliberate measures to ensure availability and sustainability of local technical and managerial capacity through developing and reviewing training programmes which meet the needs of the transport sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt NIT, we offer logistics transport management programme which support the government\u2019s industrialization drive, knowing that transport is the veins of industrial economy. There are other factors that also lead to industrialization. One of those factors is having enough transport expertise to help the industrialization drive to prosper,\u201d he said, and added that at NIT they are producing enough transport graduates that can feed the new inventions and improved transportation, which will help to bring about industrialization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AfricaPress-Tanzania: IN supporting the government\u2019s efforts to promote ocean based blue economy, the National Institute of Transport (NIT) will in this academic year start offering courses that will include ship building and repair programme. \u201cThe blue economy is very important to economic development and prosperity of all in the country, that\u2019s why we have introduced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":17527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,8],"tags":[6395,5451,2611,2687],"class_list":["post-17543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-homepage-english","tag-bsplm","tag-nacte","tag-nit","tag-zacharia-mganilwa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NIT SUPPORTS GOVT\u2019S BLUE ECONOMY INITIATIVE - Tanzania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"IN supporting the government\u2019s efforts to promote ocean based blue economy, the National Institute of Transport (NIT) will in this academic\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/economy\/nit-supports-govts-blue-economy-initiative\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NIT SUPPORTS GOVT\u2019S BLUE ECONOMY INITIATIVE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"IN supporting the government\u2019s efforts to promote ocean based blue economy, the National Institute of Transport (NIT) will in this academic\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/economy\/nit-supports-govts-blue-economy-initiative\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Tanzania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-10-28T19:32:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/10\/7f261479f2f267fcadad2dcf282aac8e.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"554\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/economy\/nit-supports-govts-blue-economy-initiative#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/economy\/nit-supports-govts-blue-economy-initiative\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"NIT SUPPORTS GOVT\u2019S BLUE ECONOMY INITIATIVE\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-28T19:32:32+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/economy\/nit-supports-govts-blue-economy-initiative\"},\"wordCount\":520,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/economy\/nit-supports-govts-blue-economy-initiative#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/10\/7f261479f2f267fcadad2dcf282aac8e.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"BSPLM\",\"Nacte\",\"NIT\",\"Zacharia Mganilwa\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Economy\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/economy\/nit-supports-govts-blue-economy-initiative#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/economy\/nit-supports-govts-blue-economy-initiative\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/economy\/nit-supports-govts-blue-economy-initiative\",\"name\":\"NIT SUPPORTS GOVT\u2019S BLUE ECONOMY INITIATIVE - Tanzania\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/economy\/nit-supports-govts-blue-economy-initiative#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/economy\/nit-supports-govts-blue-economy-initiative#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/10\/7f261479f2f267fcadad2dcf282aac8e.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-28T19:32:32+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"IN supporting the government\u2019s efforts to promote ocean based blue economy, the National Institute of Transport (NIT) will in this academic\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/economy\/nit-supports-govts-blue-economy-initiative#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/economy\/nit-supports-govts-blue-economy-initiative\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/economy\/nit-supports-govts-blue-economy-initiative#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/10\/7f261479f2f267fcadad2dcf282aac8e.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/10\/7f261479f2f267fcadad2dcf282aac8e.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":554},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/economy\/nit-supports-govts-blue-economy-initiative#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"NIT SUPPORTS GOVT\u2019S BLUE ECONOMY INITIATIVE\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/\",\"name\":\"Tanzania\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"NIT SUPPORTS GOVT\u2019S BLUE ECONOMY INITIATIVE - Tanzania","description":"IN supporting the government\u2019s efforts to promote ocean based blue economy, the National Institute of Transport (NIT) will in this academic","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/economy\/nit-supports-govts-blue-economy-initiative","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"NIT SUPPORTS GOVT\u2019S BLUE ECONOMY INITIATIVE","og_description":"IN supporting the government\u2019s efforts to promote ocean based blue economy, the National Institute of Transport (NIT) will in this academic","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/economy\/nit-supports-govts-blue-economy-initiative","og_site_name":"Tanzania","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2020-10-28T19:32:32+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":554,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/10\/7f261479f2f267fcadad2dcf282aac8e.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/economy\/nit-supports-govts-blue-economy-initiative#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/economy\/nit-supports-govts-blue-economy-initiative"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"NIT SUPPORTS GOVT\u2019S BLUE ECONOMY INITIATIVE","datePublished":"2020-10-28T19:32:32+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/economy\/nit-supports-govts-blue-economy-initiative"},"wordCount":520,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/economy\/nit-supports-govts-blue-economy-initiative#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/10\/7f261479f2f267fcadad2dcf282aac8e.jpg","keywords":["BSPLM","Nacte","NIT","Zacharia Mganilwa"],"articleSection":["all news","Economy","homepage-english"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/economy\/nit-supports-govts-blue-economy-initiative#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/economy\/nit-supports-govts-blue-economy-initiative","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/economy\/nit-supports-govts-blue-economy-initiative","name":"NIT SUPPORTS GOVT\u2019S BLUE ECONOMY INITIATIVE - Tanzania","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/economy\/nit-supports-govts-blue-economy-initiative#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/economy\/nit-supports-govts-blue-economy-initiative#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/10\/7f261479f2f267fcadad2dcf282aac8e.jpg","datePublished":"2020-10-28T19:32:32+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"IN supporting the government\u2019s efforts to promote ocean based blue economy, the National Institute of Transport (NIT) will in this academic","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/economy\/nit-supports-govts-blue-economy-initiative#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/economy\/nit-supports-govts-blue-economy-initiative"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/economy\/nit-supports-govts-blue-economy-initiative#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/10\/7f261479f2f267fcadad2dcf282aac8e.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/10\/7f261479f2f267fcadad2dcf282aac8e.jpg","width":1024,"height":554},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/economy\/nit-supports-govts-blue-economy-initiative#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"NIT SUPPORTS GOVT\u2019S BLUE ECONOMY INITIATIVE"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/","name":"Tanzania","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}