- Xcil Shipping educated students about containers and how they are transported in and out of the coutry.
- Cook Islands Towage Ltd organised a tour onboard RoRo barge, Layar Mas 291.
- Cook Islands Police conducted a tour on Police Patrol vessel, Te Kukupa.
- Local telecommunications company Bluesky taught students about VHF Radios and radio frequencies.
- Ministy of Transport and Cook Islands Tourism Coproration collaborated to demonstrate rope tying.
- Ministry of Marine Resouces introduced students to fish aggregating devices and displayed fish species charts.
- Marae Moana the Cook Islands Marine Park shared the importance of preserving the marine environment and had a crown of thorns starfish on display.
- The Cook Islands Water Safety & Surf Lifesaving Council in collaboration with Sailing Cook Islands focused on water safety through a search and rescue demonstration in the Avatiu Harbour.
Maritime Cook Islands celebrates World Maritime Day 2017
posted by AJOT | Oct 04 2017 at 08:06 AM | Ports & Terminals
The Cook Islands celebrated World Maritime Day on Friday 29th September at Avatiu Harbour and the IMO theme for this year was ‘Connecting Ships, Ports and People’.
The theme highlights the vital inter-connectivity between the three principal components – ships, ports and people – in contributing to the maritime economy. The Cook Islands World Maritime Day kicked off with a welcome address by the Cook Islands Prime Minister Honorable Henry Puna, and up to 600 students from various schools around Rarotonga took part.
Aimed to heighten the youngsters’ understanding of the industry, a total of eight stations were set up.