visakhapatnam the centre of excellence in maritime and shipbuilding cems which has been set up at about 763 crore here will be formally inaugurated on february 23 wednesday the centre has been established by the ministry of ports shipping and waterways under its sagarmala project to provide skilled manpower as a crucial foundation for coastal community development union minister for ports shipping and waterways sarbananda sonowal will inaugurate the centre the centre started its operation a few years ago in visakhapatnamaccording to the officials cems aims to provide skilled manpower for manufacturing shipping aerospace and automotive sectors the centre has got the stateoftheart labs having a cyberphysical infrastructure the cems campus here is provided with a 200student hostel facility cems supports prime minister narendra modis gati shakti initiative through skill development in four out of seven growth engines including ports mass transport waterways and logisticsit started as a section 8 not for profit company without share capital and is promoted by indian register of shippingcems has been set up to function as a hub and spoke model to support workintegrated education and training so as to enable successful and smooth postcollege transition to youththe centre would be the main hub focused on skilling students in shipbuilding and associated industries the spokes would be the other training centres across the country that have been associated with it these spokes will also have access to cems labs and its resources to provide highend training on pan india basiscems is also the authorised training centre for product lifecycle management platform during the lockdown period cems started online and hybrid courses for diploma and btech students and successfully trained thousands of studentsaccording to the representatives of cems it has strong industry connections to facilitate industrial visits internships projects and placement assistance for the studentscems focuses extensively on the endtoend activities involving design manufacturing operations logistics factory layouting automation piping etc it is ensured that the pedagogy technology and content of the training at cems is relevant to current and futuristic trends in various areas of competency creation