| ARAB ACADEMY FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND MARITIME TRANSPORT | |
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| Established | 1972 |
| Type | Regional Organization |
| President | Prof. Dr. Ismail Abdel Ghafar |
| Location | Alexandria, Egypt |
| Campus | Alexandria, Cairo, Port Said, Aswan, Latakia (Syria) |
| Affiliations | IMO |
| Website | http://www.aast.edu |
Establishing the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT) as a regional institute for maritime transport started as a notion in the Arab League Transport Committee's meetings on 11th of March, 1970. This notion came after the Arab League's Council issued, in its fifty third session, decree no. 2631/1970 stipulating the endorsement of founding a regional center for maritime transport training. The decree commissioned the Arab Republic of Egypt, on behalf of all the Arab countries, to ask for a technical aid from the United Nations' organizations specialized in the field of maritime transport.
By the end of 1971, the United Nations delegated a joint committee of its concerned organizations to study the region's need for this project. It highlighted the necessity of founding a regional institute for maritime training and also of providing adequate aid for it. Then, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) approved of funding 3.2 million dollars on the condition that the participant Arab countries contribute a sum of 8.25 million Egyptian pounds during a period of five years. Moreover, after visiting many of the region's countries, the committee chose the city of Alexandria, known for its great cultural legacy, as a location because of its important geographical location, which is in the middle of the whole Arab region, as well as the abundance of the qualified personnel available.
Eventually, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) prepared document number (REM/71L286/01/19) for the project of establishing the Arab Academy for Maritime Transport in Alexandria in cooperation with the International Maritime Consultancy Organization of Governments as an executive agency of the project and the United Nations Conference for Trade and Development as a participant (UNCTAD).
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The academy comprises :
- Nautical Department (Alexandria,Portsaid). - Marine Engineering Technology Department (Alexandria,Portsaid). - Postgraduate Maritime Studies Department (Alexandria,Portsaid).
- Architectural Engineering (Alexandria,Cairo). - Basic & Applied Science (Alexandria,Cairo). - Computer Engineering (Alexandria,Cairo). - Construction & Building Engineering (Alexandria,Cairo). - Electrical Engineering (Alexandria,Cairo). - Electronics & Communication Engineering (Alexandria,Cairo). - Industrial & Management Engineering (Alexandria). - Marine Engineering (Alexandria). - Mechanical Engineering (Alexandria,Cairo). - Engineering higher Studies (Alexandria,Cairo).
- Management information system (Alexandria). - Marketing & International Business (Alexandria). - E-commerce (Alexandria). - Finance & Accounting and Hotel & Tourism (Alexandria).
- DBA - MBA - Executive Master of Business Adminstration - Diploma - Professional Certificates - International Programs - Executive Education
The Virginia Tech Middle East and North Africa Program offers Masters and Doctoral degrees in Electrical (Communication) Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Computer Science through a partnership with Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States.[1]
- Alexandria(Main HeadQuarter). - Cairo. - PortaSaid. - SouthValley.
- Lattakia.
- Republic of Yemen, - Republic of Sudan.
Ever since it was founded in 1972, the Arab Academy for Science & Technology, and Maritime Transport (AASTMT) saved no effort in supporting the educational process. And because academic libraries play a major role in supporting educational activities and enriching the academic life of students and faculty members, AASTMT established a specialized library in order to make use of the information published in different media. Library.