SpecTec and Mass. Maritime Academy Enter into Cooperative Agreement

SpecTec to donate AMOS licenses for MMA's training curriculum. The deal represents Spectec’s first license donation partnership with a U.S.-based academy; other International partners include Dalian Maritime University, National Taiwan Ocean University and the Italian Maritime Academy.

The Massachusetts Maritime Academy (MMA) and SpecTec have entered into a Cooperation Agreement in which SpecTec has agreed to donate AMOS licenses to enhance MMA's maritime curriculum. The license donation partnership, a first for SpecTec in the United States, follows similar agreements with International partners Dalian Maritime University, National Taiwan Ocean University and the Italian Maritime Academy. MMA has extended an invitation to SpecTec CEO, Giampiero Soncini to visit the campus in 2009 for a formal signing event.

The Massachusetts Maritime Academy's training programs include Marine Transportation, Marine Engineering, International Maritime Business, Facilities Engineering, Marine Safety and Environmental Protection, and Emergency Management. MMA is the largest Maritime Academy in the United States, and through the signing of the agreement, SpecTec has agreed to sponsor up to 100 licenses of its AMOS business suite software modules and will also be donating the AMOS2 Enterprise software due in February 2009. This software will be loaded at the International Maritime Business Center at MMA and various computer labs, and will enhance the academic experience and placement potential of students attending MMA.

The use of AMOS will help the maritime students to better understand all the business and management aspects of shipping, machinery and nautical equipment, vessel and fleet maintenance strategy, surveys and certificates as well as the Rules and Regulations in Shipping. The software is currently being used by various shipping companies across the globe and this partnership will help MMA in producing maritime professionals who are better equipped to meet the required skill sets in the current job market. Already the most widely used business suite software package in use by the global maritime markets, SpecTec has recently begun a push to widen their market penetration into North America.