“We are trying new markets mainly in the UK as well as Central America. This is something we are hoping to open up for 2017 rather than 2016,” notes Joe Faddoul, Chairman and Founding Partner of BML Istisharat.
“We have recently added a Java layer on our banking system and we are now doing the same for our insurance system. We’ve also completed the mobility functions for our banking system and it is almost completed for our insurance system,” notes Joe Faddoul, Chairman and Founding Partner of BML Istisharat.
“We’ve been ranked 6th by the International Banking System (IBS) in London for Universal Banking,” notes Joe Faddoul, Chairman and Founding Partner of BML Istisharat.
“Recently we have been certified for EXA data and EXA logic by Oracle,” notes Joe Faddoul, Chairman and Founding Partner of BML Istisharat.
“We have just completed a contract in Guinea-Conakry as well as one in Malta and apparently it went very well. That was our first banking system implementation for both West Africa and Malta,” notes Joe Faddoul, Chairman and Founding Partner of BML Istisharat.
“Our appeal is for the government to recognise us. We have been able to get here mainly because Chevron Nigeria Ltd has been a very big supporter of Pem Offshore. It was like a dream when we went to Chevron; they gave us a contract without ever seeing anything on the ground,” says Phillips Matthews, Senior Vice President (Americas/Africa) of PEM OFFSHORE GROUP.
“This is the biggest centre in Africa. There is a little one in South Africa which is not even half of what we have in one room. There is another little one in Egypt but this is the biggest in Africa,” says Phillips Matthews, Senior Vice President (Americas/Africa) of PEM OFFSHORE GROUP.
“We target the IOCs, Offshore Vessel Operators, Rig Owners and Operators, Crewing Agencies as well as Government Scholarship Boards. We work with international and local academies. Our major targets are the seafarers themselves, the crew, people who are willing to work offshore or onshore to support offshore operations, people who work in the offices, who work in maritime logistics, the vessel owners, the rig owners, barge owners, dredge owners,” says Phillips Matthews, Senior Vice President (Americas/Africa) of PEM OFFSHORE GROUP.
“We have a DP2 advanced simulator. We also have a basic DP simulator. They are all K-POS 8.2 series which is the top range. We also have the ASD tractor tug and basic ship handling tug bridge simulator. We can achieve about 18 to 20 courses from these three simulators,” says Phillips Matthews, Senior Vice President (Americas/Africa) of PEM OFFSHORE GROUP.
“Our drive has been to give what are called cutting costs initiatives. People running courses here used to spend millions of naira to book a flight, they spent a lot of money to get a visa and the course fees cost them a lot of money as well, thousands of dollars, they stay in a good hotel and it was all done overseas,” says Phillips Matthews, Senior Vice President (Americas/Africa) of PEM OFFSHORE GROUP.
