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SIGNING CEREMONY – MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING AMONG IHI CORPORATION, ATLÂNTICO SUL SHIPYARD AND FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO - Making contributions to Brazil's human resource development in shipbuilding -

Brasília, Brazil August 1st 2014- Chairman Kazuaki Kama of IHI Corporation (“IHI”), CEO President Harro Burmann, COO Vice president Masatoki Utsunomiya of Atlântico Sul Shipyard (“EAS”) and Rector Anísio Brasileiro de Freitas Dourado of Federal University of Pernambuco (“UFPE”) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) to establish strategic cooperation framework aiming to expand the human resources potential of the shipbuilding and offshore industry. (The signing ceremony was held with participation of President Dilma Rouseff and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the Presidential Palace.)

Pursuant to the MOU,

  • 1. EAS sends their IHI selected engineers to UFPE to teach in Offshore and Shipbuilding Course – named Curso de Engenharia Naval. IHI is EAS’s main stakeholder of the Japanese investors and has sent over skilled shipbuilding engineers with good working knowledge to EAS.
  • 2. EAS receives Small groups of students of UFPE for a short-term course taught by the Shipyard’s engineering staff with support of Human Development Center of the company.
  • 3. UFPE and EAS will provide students opportunities to participate in the Supervised Internship Program at the Shipyard.
  • 4. IHI will accept internship from the UFPE students in Japan with the support of the Science Without Borders Federal Scholarship Program (Ciência Sem Fronteiras).

Mr. Kama is one of the member of the Brazil and Japan Wise-men Group on the Japan-Brazil Strategic Economic Partnership. The Group has reported to President Rouseff and Prime Minister Abe that the human resource development in the shipbuilding and offshore industry in Brazil is one of the priority areas for cooperation between the countries. IHI Corporation which has 35 years of experience in shipbuilding in Brazil through Ishikawajima do Brasil (Ishibras), and is contributing actively to the shipbuilding revitalization in Brazil now at EAS.

UFPE, which is one of the top 10 Universities in Brazil, is making efforts to enrich the Naval Engineering Course to respond to the human resource demand in the shipbuilding and offshore industry.

Picture of Signing Ceremony

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