Samsung Heavy industries Nigeria, in partnership with the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas, has sent over 60 Nigerian youths for training at the SHI shipyard in Geoje, South Korea.

This is coming barely one month after the company trained about 57 Nigerians who were certified as shipbuilders and other aspects of ship development.

The beneficiaries left the shores of Nigeria on Friday last week, and according to SHI, the move is aimed at pursuing the local content policy of the Federal Government in the oil and gas sector,

The General Manager, SHI in Nigeria, Mr. Frank Ejizu, said that the company remained determined to driving the local content initiative through empowering Nigerians on training programmes to bridge the gap in engineering proficiency in the country.

He said, “The initiatives are actually human capacity development. We have a project with NLNG, which calls for training Nigerians in Korea for manning the NLNG vessels. So, that is why we had shortlisted these youths to go to Korea for training.

“The enlisted youths would be trained in different aspects of shipbuilding, fabrication, painting, scaffolding, welding, naval architecture, ship design, fittings, mechanical and maintenance and other related shipbuilding development.

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