AOTS Journal 2018 AUTUMN No.13 (ENGLISH)

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JOURNAL12During the 2010s, development began of the Rovuma Basin mining area, an enormous natural gas eld that was discovered in Northern Mozambique. With regards to the methods of using this gas, the Mozambique government had already been considering 1) LNG, 2) Gas-to-Liquid (GTL), 3) fertilizer, and 4) power generation projects. Meanwhile, Marubeni Corporation in 2010 entered into a business cooperation memorandum with Mozambique’s National Hydrocarbon Company (ENH) to advance a methanol business that would contribute to the industrialization of the area.Marubeni (Corp.) and ENH are currently collaborating to research and examine this methanol business. In order to deepen the understanding on the local nature of products and projects, Marubeni (Corp.) applied to a METI’s trade and investment promotion project (entrusted to the AOTS, and carried out in 2013) to conduct an awareness campaign by inviting local related people and dispatching interns. However, due to a renewed request from ENH for cooperation to implement training programs, it was decided that the AOTS will collaborate with Marubeni (Corp.) and ENH to progress with such training.With the objective of inviting program participants from ENH within FY2018, the AOTS entered into a memorandum between Marubeni and ENH in relation to implementing programs. At the Japan-Africa Public-Private Economic Forum held in Johannesburg, an ofcial handover ceremony was held for Japanese companies/organizations and their counterparts. Among those participants, the AOTS was present for handing over the memorandum between representatives from Marubeni (Corp.) and ENH, with both Mr. Hiroshige Seko, Minister for Economy, Trade and Industry, and Mr. Robert Haydn Davies, Minister of Trade and Industry in South Africa, in attendance.This is a non-subsidized project of the AOTS whose training contributes to the human resources and infrastructure development of Japanese corporations. From here on as well, the AOTS hopes to continue similarly working in rising nations such as in Africa where business promotion by Japanese companies is anticipated.At the MOU official handover ceremony. From right on the stage; Mr. Seko, Minister of METI, Mr. Davies, Minister of Trade and Industry in South Africa. From second right of the front row; Mr. Shigeru Yamazoe, Vice Chariman of Marubeni Corp., Ms. Tania Munhequete, Vice President of ENH NEWSAOTS held overseas training sessions in Taiwan on the subject of ‘Environmental Business Administration and CSR/CSV Management’ as a part of the Carbon Reduction Technology Promotion Program in March 2018. Mr. Kazuo Suzuki, president of KAZ Consulting, known for his long years of lecturing on the above topics, was the lecturer, and total of 120 participants took part in the training sessions in the three cities of Taipei, Tainan and Taichung.The International Management Council (IMC) of Taiwan, our counterpart for the implementation of the training, is a Taiwanese employer’s organization founded in 1961 for acquiring excellent management knowhow from the United States and Japan. Covering the whole of Taiwan with 13 chapters and a membership of 2,000, IMC is actively engaged in promoting better management techniques for mostly manufacturing and service sectors. AOTS and IMC signed a memorandum of Very First AOTS Overseas Training Held in Three Taiwanese Cities—In Collaboration with IMC, Taiwanese employers’ organization—The AOTS concluded an MOU on tri-party cooperation with Marubeni Corporation and Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos, E.P. (Mozambique’s National Hydrocarbon Company) (ENH) for the implementation of training programsCurrently researching and considering projects for actualizationCurrently cooperating with capacity buildingDispatches trainees,Pays transport fees, etc.Outsources training(contract)Pays implementing feesTri-party MOU regardingtraining programsThe AOTSENHMarubeni