John B. Lacson Foundation Maritime University 5.93

Villa Beach
Iloilo City, 5000
Philippines
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John B. Lacson Foundation Maritime University John B. Lacson Foundation Maritime University is one of the popular place listed under Technical Institute in Iloilo City ,

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The John B. Lacson Foundation Maritime University is the first maritime institution in the Philippines to obtain the Accreditation of DNV (Det Norske Veritas).It consist of four major academic components by the John B. Lacson Foundation, Inc. System : JBLFMU-Arevalo, JBLFMU-Molo (head office), JBLF-Training Center and JBLCF-Bacolod.HistoryThe John B. Lacson Foundation Maritime University was founded by Capt. Juan Bautista Lacson, graduated from Philippine Nautical School (presently the Philippine Merchant Marine Academy) class of 1920, a talented and hard working master mariner in his time. It first started with a review school for marine officers in May 1931 before the establishment of the Iloilo Maritime Academy in 1948.When it first opened with 60 enrollees, the Academy offered a two-year regular course for cadets in the nautical profession leading to the acquisition of a Third Mate license for merchant marine officers as well as reserved naval officers in the Philippine Navy. By the time it was granted permit to operate in 1949, the school had 150 junior students and 54 seniors.The following year, it was granted government recognition and registered as a non-stock corporation by the Securities and Exchange Commission. To accommodate its growing population, the Academy transferred locations a couple of times before it settled along Muelle Loney Street, Iloilo City in 1953. The height of activism, strikes, pickets and labor unrest in the country in 1971 did not spare the Iloilo Maritime Academy from the fury of the times.

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