The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) set up an S$80 million Maritime Cluster Fund (MCF) in 2002 to help promote and strengthen the maritime cluster in Singapore. S$50 million from the MCF has been set aside to enhance maritime manpower development as well as to develop local training infrastructure and capabilities.

Funds from the MCF are targeted at promoting manpower development in those maritime services in the IMC cluster that are high value-added and knowledge-based such as ship management, ship financing, ship brokering/chartering, maritime law/arbitration, marine insurance, port terminal management, planning and development, port economics, marketing and pricing, ship/offshore structure design and construction, marine engineering and offshore technology and seafaring.

The schemes/programmes currently available under the MCF are as follows

• MCF Course Fee Subsidy
• Attachment Programme
  • Maritime Attachment Programme (MAP)
  • Overseas Trainer Attachment Programme (OTAP)
• Joint Maritime Scholarship Scheme (JMSS)
• Local Maritime Part-Time Postgraduate Scholarship Programme (LMPS)
• Development and Conduct of Tertiary Programmes
• MPA Professorships
• Maritime Industrial Attachment Programme (MIAP) - Student Attachment Allowance
   

For more information on the MCF, you can email the MCF Secretariat at MCF@mpa.gov.sg or call:

Mdm Aidil Suraya     Tel: +65 6375 1903
Ms Jean Ong            Tel: +65 6375 1922