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Captain Salem felt that he was<br />
defending a piece of Kuwaiti land<br />
floating on water. Modifications done by<br />
KOTC’s engineers to the tanker’s control<br />
tower by building a fully-equipped safety<br />
room to manage the ship in case it is high<br />
jacked”<br />
1999 a total of 113 Kuwaitis received<br />
scholarship, successfully completing<br />
their studies, serving in the<br />
ranks of Master & Chief Engineer<br />
and progressing to senior positions<br />
in Head Office.<br />
Today, we are proud that we have<br />
29 Kuwaiti officers working onboard<br />
our vessels; 14 of them graduated<br />
from KOTC’s Scholarship scheme.<br />
KOTC has also 23 marine students<br />
studying in UK. By 2020, we expect<br />
to have around 102 Kuwaiti officers<br />
working onboard our fleet. We are<br />
proud of the high level of professionalism<br />
demonstrated by graduates of<br />
the Scholarship Programme. They<br />
learn discipline and professionalism<br />
and spend years in field work in the<br />
middle of the sea, graduating with a<br />
world-class level of professionalism,<br />
while demonstrating patriotism, loyalty<br />
and national belonging.<br />
to face over 8 speed boats and a big<br />
boom boat, he stayed imperturbable.<br />
He managed to sail to safety thanks<br />
to the modifications done by KOTC’s<br />
engineers to the tanker’s control<br />
tower by building a fully-equipped<br />
safety room to manage the ship in<br />
case it is high jacked. He also operated<br />
giant water pumps forming a<br />
waterfall that prevented the pirates<br />
from climbing onto the surface of the<br />
tanker, in addition to manoeuvring<br />
skills during sailing. All these measures<br />
helped him avoid being high<br />
jacked. During his experience facing<br />
the pirates, Captain Salem felt that<br />
he was defending a piece of Kuwaiti<br />
land floating on water.<br />
Ahmed Salem, Team Leader Fleet Support<br />
and Security Operations<br />
Captain Ahmed Salem facing<br />
pirates<br />
Giving an example of the excellence<br />
of KOTC’s scholarship programme<br />
graduates, Captain Ahmed<br />
Salem told us about his experience<br />
in 2008 when his tanker Al Jabriya<br />
was attacked by pirates who hijacked<br />
the ship in front of him and the one<br />
behind after him but he refused to<br />
surrender. Despite the confusion of<br />
the crew and the lack of equipment<br />
or weapons on the tanker at the time<br />
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