Tuvalu Maritime Training Institute

Tuvalu Marine Training Institute
Typepublic
Established1978 (1978)
Chief executive officerIefata Paeniu[1]
Academic staff
12
Students120 graduates in 2009 and 2010
Location
Tuvalu

8°26′17.6″S 179°10′16.3″E / 8.438222°S 179.171194°E / -8.438222; 179.171194
CampusAmatuku

The Tuvalu Maritime Training Institute (TMTI) is on Amatuku motu, on Funafuti atoll in Tuvalu.[2] TMTI provides training to approximately 120 marine cadets each year,[3] to provide them with the basic skills necessary for employment as seafarers on merchant shipping. TMTI operates under the Tuvalu Maritime Training Institute Act 2000.

  1. ^ Matau, Robert (September 2013). "Getting our seafarers ready for high seas duties". Island Business. Archived from the original on 2014-04-03. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
  2. ^ "Amatuki motu, Funafuti". Retrieved 28 January 2013.
  3. ^ "Tuvalu marine cadets". Retrieved 28 January 2013.