On July 4, the NYK-TDG Maritime Academy (NTMA), a merchant marine academy jointly operated by NYK and the Transnational Diversified Group (TDG) near Manila, Philippines, held a commencement ceremony for 80 students, the academy\u2019s 14th batch of graduates.<\/p>\n The ceremony was attended by many distinguished guests, including\u00a0Kazuya Endo<\/strong>, ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of Japan to the Philippines, and Atty. Jerome T. Pampolina<\/strong>, Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) Assistant Secretary for Sea-based OFW Concerns. NYK President Takaya Soga<\/strong>, Director, Managing Executive Officer Yasunobu Suzuki<\/strong>, and TDG Chairman and Founder J. Roberto C. Delgado<\/strong> also joined the event, offering their congratulations to the graduates.<\/p>\n In his congratulatory speech, NYK President Soga remarked, \u201cYour journey here began in 2020, during one of the most uncertain times in recent history \u2014 the COVID-19 pandemic. Even with all this chaos, the shipping industry remains as essential as ever. Your job as seafarers is about more than just moving goods. I hope you all will be embodying our mission of \u2018Bringing value to life\u2019 every day, with every voyage.\u201d<\/p>\n NTMA was established to train seafarers according to NYK\u2019s high standards. Last year marked a milestone with the appointment of NTMA\u2019s first female president, and this year celebrates the academy\u2019s 18th anniversary. With the enrollment of its first cohort of female students last year, NTMA is committed to contributing to the development of the Philippines\u2019 maritime industry through diversity-focused education and contributions to society. Additionally, NTMA is dedicated to cultivating transformative leaders who will pursue continual self-improvement and contribute to society at a time when innovations such as decarbonization technologies and autonomous vessels are rapidly advancing.<\/p>\n maritime professional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
July 7, 2025
Front row: First from right, January S. Asuncion, President of NTMA Second from right, Yasunobu Suzuki, Director, Managing Executive Officer of NYK Forth from right, Rashid H. Delgado, Co-Chief Executive Officer of TDG Sixth from right, Takaya Soga, President and CEO of NYK Eighth from right, Department of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/63506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n July 7, 2025<\/span>
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\n Front row:
\nFirst from right, January S. Asuncion, President of NTMA
\nSecond from right, Yasunobu Suzuki, Director, Managing Executive Officer of NYK
\nForth from right, Rashid H. Delgado, Co-Chief Executive Officer of TDG
\nSixth from right, Takaya Soga, President and CEO of NYK
\nEighth from right, Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) Assistant Secretary for Sea-based OFW Concerns, Atty. Jerome T. Pampolina
\nNinth from right, J. Roberto C. Delgado, Founder and Group Chairman of TDG
\nEleventh from right,
\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/file\/2025\/07\/1751889303_458_NYK-TDG-Maritime-Academy-Celebrates-80-Graduates.jpg\"\/)
From left, Takaya Soga, President, NYK Line; Kelby Russell J. Fernandez, Recipient of Class 2024 NYK-TDG Award of Excellence
TDG Chairman and Founder J. Roberto C. Delgado<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n