2021年3月21日上午，海事訓練學院導師黃秋明先生與本中心義工抵達葵涌3號貨櫃碼頭，登上M.V. BELAWAN探望該船船員以及了解香港海員陳建東船上的近況。
中心義工團隊及導師與船長及輪機長作短暫交流，隨後陳建東邀請導師參觀船上的駕駛台，並且向導師介紹此船駕駛台的設備。
他表示很榮幸海事訓練學院的導師上船參觀，及很高興可以向導師分享其船上工作及生活等趣事。
導師則表示期望學生能將在學校所學的知識學以致用，並且鼓勵學生堅持下去繼續努力工作。他亦表示現時貨船的設備先進，船上生活環境比舊時為好，希望能將此行所見的與其他航海學生分享，好讓他們對船上的工作及生活方式有所了解。
On 21st March, 2021, Mr. Benny WONG, instructor of Maritime Service Training Institute, was invited to participate a ship visit together with HKISSCs’ volunteers. They arrived at Terminal 3 of Kwai Chung Container Terminal and boarded on M.V. BELAWAN in the morning.
Mr. Benny WONG and HKISSCs’ volunteers, had a good exchange with Captain and Chief Engineer of M.V. BELAWAN about the working conditions and situations of seafarers. In this exchange, Cadet Chan Kin Tung invited instructor to visit the wheelhouse and had a brief introduction about the equipment.
He said that it was his pleasure and a good chance to meet his past instructor from the Maritime Service Training Institute onboard and he was happy to share his work and life onboard the ship with instructor.
Benny expressed that it was good to see his students to apply what they have learnt at school and he encouraged students to work hard. He also said that the equipment onboard were much advanced nowadays and the living environment onboard had improved a lot. He hoped that he can share what he had seen here with other students who were studying in maritime studies so that they can have a better understanding of the job nature and living onboard the ship.
