Caribbean Maritime Institute

The Caribbean Maritime Institute is by name, content and operation, the Caribbean region’s centre of excellence for tertiary maritime education, training, research and consultancy. The CMI was established in Kingston, Jamaica in 1980 as the Jamaica Maritime Training Institute. This initiative was a joint project between the Government of Jamaica and the Government of the Kingdom of Norway. It was run by a fulltime maritime staff complement of five Norwegian lecturers. Training was designed in accordance with the Norwegian and British systems of training of seafarers, and was well above the minimum requirements of the 1978 Inter-governmental Maritime Consultative Organization. By 1992, the Institute was fully Jamaicanised and renamed Jamaica Maritime Institute. In 1993 the organization became an autonomous body under the laws of Jamaica and within the Ministry of Public Utilities and Transport. In 2001, the need for giving the Institute its present international flavour by changing its name to the Caribbean Maritime Institute. The CMI has since established satellites in other Caribbean countries for the dissemination and delivery of its programmes. The Institute has restructured expanded and continues to expand its curricula to educate and train people to fit-into the three transport sub sectors of land, sea and air. The Institute is organized into three (3) distinct but organized “Schools”, namely: the School of Academic Studies, the School of Marine and Professional Studies and the School of Advanced Skills.