Corporate Messages
Prof. Dato’ Sri Dr. Captain Razali Yaacob
Honorary Professor
FOUNDER / EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN
Gratitude and Commitment
A Message from Our Executive Chairman
It is both an honour and a privilege to welcome you to this amazing institute. I can assure each and every one of you that you are here because you deserve to be, and because you can bring something new and exciting to this diverse learning community. What the maritime industry can offer the world is tremendous. The segments covered are wide-ranging and much unexplored in this region. The latent wealth residing in this compliant rich industry is abundant and opportunities for participating in the related specialized activities is enormous.
BE BOLD, BE COURAGEOUS, BE YOUR BEST
Harry Molenaar
Former Netherlands Ambassador to Malaysia
Malaysia and the Netherlands have long-standing excellent bilateral relations. Both countries are also major trading partners. Close to a third of Malaysian exports to the EU enter Europe via the Netherlands. For palm oil exports this figure reaches roughly two thirds. This makes the Netherlands Malaysia’s second-largest trading partner among the countries of the European Union. The Netherlands has during the last few decades constantly been in the top ten countries providing foreign direct investment in Malaysia.
Mr. Jan Albert Soer
Senior Strategy Advisor
The Netherlands’ rise to prominence as the world’s leading trading power in the seventeenth century was made possible by its strategic location at the intersection of long-established European trading routes, and its outstanding connections via its extensive network of rivers and canals. Amsterdam became an entrepôt for goods from the whole world. Even today the Netherlands is known as the Gateway to Europe. Amsterdam’s significance as a port has long since been eclipsed by Rotterdam, which is much more practically positioned for trade with Germany. The port of Rotterdam is Europe’s largest and the World’s number three.