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21/10/2025

⚓ Wreath Laying Ceremony at Mazar-e-Quaid

Dear Merchant Marine Fraternity — Seniors, Peers, Juniors, and Families,

For the first time in Merchant Naval history, we have the honour of participating in the Wreath Laying Ceremony & Fatiha at the Mausoleum of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, with full Naval Decorum In Sha Allah.

🗓 Date: Saturday, 25th October
🕑 Time: 1400 hours
📍 Venue: Mazar-e-Quaid, Karachi

This is a wonderful opportunity for all ranks to meet in person — putting names to faces and faces to names. Connect with colleagues you normally wouldn’t meet and enjoy an excellent social gathering platform.

All officers, cadets, and members of the Merchant Marine are requested to attend and bring along at least five guests each to make our presence truly remarkable. Let’s stand tall as a dignified maritime fraternity and honour the Father of the Nation.

Kindly confirm your attendance at the earliest.

Warm regards,
Capt. Farid Masud, FNI, FCILT, PHF
Chairman – The Nautical Institute, Pakistan Branch.

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03/01/2023

From 1 January 2023 it will be mandatory for all ships to calculate their attained Energy Efficiency Existing Ship Index (EEXI) to measure their energy efficiency and to initiate the collection of data for the reporting of their annual operational carbon intensity indicator (CII) and CII rating.

Find out all about it here: https://bit.ly/3Q9QPM4

21/11/2022

Merchant Navy ratings and Junior officers are suffering due to unavailability of Examiners for EDH and other exams.

As we all are aware that Capt. Obaid Mustafaq Nautical Surveyor (N.S) relinquish the charge due to completion of his contract and
Various STCW and watch keeping exams and EDH certification is on hold due to absence of examiners.
MOMA still not appointed any examiners/surveyors on various Vacant N.S ( Nautical Surveyor) posts at MMD and DGPS. 03 Slots for Nautical surveyors are vacant since long time for unknown reasons, causing delays in examination process.

Shipping market is booming with manpower shortage and large number of jobs are available for fresh Pakistani merchant navy officers and skilled deck crew in the international market. But unfortunately, to aforesaid circumstances pakistan losing hundreds of Jobs and millions of dollars of foreign remittance in lieu of salaries of seafarers.

It is Requested that Government of Pakistan and Ministery of Maritime Affairs to urgently look into this matter and appoint examiners / Naurical & Engineering Surveyors and examinors on top most priority.

If the appointment of Surveyors taking long time due to official procedures then at the least please take some temporary measures to ease off the candidates awaiting time that is presently unduly long.
It is pertinent to mention here that volunteers with required qualifications are available and are willing to assist MoMa free of charge until a permanent solution is found.

Capt. M Mansoor Saeed
36N