British Marine Federation (BMF) and Marina Industries Association of Australia (MIAA) have reached agreement to form GMI (Global Marina Industries). This is seen as a natural evolution of work they have both been doing on marina training and certification in their own geographic regions but are now taking the opportunity to go global.
The parties have agreed to form GMI to provide education, training and certification for marinas and marina staff to raise standards and professionalism within the marina industry in Europe, Australia, Asia and the rest of the world excluding the United States.
The new organisation will be chaired by Mick Bettesworth CMM, Chief Commercial Officer of MDL Marinas Group PLC and with a Board of Directors including Sarah Dhanda, Director of Business Development BMF; Debbie Burns CMM, Marina Manager Ocean Village Marina (UK) and Chair of UK/Europe CMM Group; Jeff d’Albora, Director of MIAA; Steve Sammes CMM, Director MIAA and General Manager of Gold Coast Marina and Chair of Australia/Asia CMM Group and Colin Bransgrove, Executive Director MIAA. This Board collectively represents more than 100 years of experience in marina management.
The partners have a long history of delivering marina management training across eight countries with delegates attending courses from over 30 countries. Going forward GMI will be working with local delivery partners in the non English speaking world to develop courses in native languages.
GMI will take responsibility for the Certified Marina Manager Programme (CMM), the Certified Marina Operators Programme (CMO) and the Certified Marina Service Programme (CSM) and marina managers courses outside of the USA. GMI will also be working to develop new training and broader certification programmes for other marina staff.
