This new MEL partnership with AUT involves cooperation in education and research, exchange of staff and students and the joint organisation of conferences and other academic events. In this framework, MEL will be offering courses in logistics and shipping and port management to AUT’s new Bachelors in Transport Management. AUT’s new Bachelor’s program is endorsed and sponsored by CMA-CGM, the No 3 global transport and logistics giant. With this new initiative, CMA-CGM assumes a leading role and involvement in advanced education in Maritime Economics and Logistics (in photo, George Kurban, country and regional manager, CMA-CGM, presenting the new program to students and staff).