New Zealand Maritime School graduate students Ziyad Salim and Matapo’O (Matt) Manase have respectively won the Graduate Diploma in Supply Chain and Shipping Management Award and Diploma in Supply Chain Management Award.

The two awards and $500-apiece prizes were presented by New Zealand Shippers’ Council representative Murray Horne -- whose organisation is a prominent support of the Manukau Institute of Technology faculty -- in a recent ceremony at Central Auckland’s Mecure Hotel.

Mr Salim was acclaimed for “his high marks in supply chain study and unique personal skills for the industry” and Mr Manase for “his excellent grasp of the workings of the supply chain as a whole”.

About 50 graduates from a range of logistics programmes -- including some already employed in the logistics industry who had undertaken distance learning and night courses -- were presented with diplomas, graduate diplomas and certificates before a receptive audience.

The Maritime School notes it has been a “bumper year” for graduate numbers with industry demand for qualified shipping, freight and supply chain professionals said to be growing.

A Cubic Transport news posting June 1, 2016