Cricketer Irfan Pathan hails seafarers: ‘You make the world move’
At Fleet Management's Mumbai office, cricket met the high seas as the former Indian team pacer showered high praise on the maritime community
Former Indian cricketer Irfan Pathan has highlighted the crucial role of India's seafaring community by addressing Fleet Management Ltd's global workforce and visiting their Mumbai office, emphasizing that seafarers are essential to global trade and commerce. During his engagement, Pathan drew parallels between the demands of international cricket and life at sea, stressing the importance of responsibility, teamwork, and performing under pressure, while also meeting with cadets from Fleet Management's training arm, the International Maritime Institute (IMI), to discuss discipline and resilience. This initiative by Fleet Management aligns with India's broader national ambition, as outlined in the Maritime India Vision, to become a top global maritime nation by 2047 through enhanced seafarer welfare, training, and fleet expansion, thus recognizing and strengthening the country's significant maritime talent pool.
Former Indian cricketer Irfan Pathan has highlighted the crucial role of India's seafaring community by addressing Fleet Management Ltd's global workforce and visiting their Mumbai office, emphasizing that seafarers are essential to global trade and commerce. During his engagement, Pathan drew parallels between the demands of international cricket and life at sea, stressing the importance of responsibility, teamwork, and performing under pressure, while also meeting with cadets from Fleet Management's training arm, the International Maritime Institute (IMI), to discuss discipline and resilience. This initiative by Fleet Management aligns with India's broader national ambition, as outlined in the Maritime India Vision, to become a top global maritime nation by 2047 through enhanced seafarer welfare, training, and fleet expansion, thus recognizing and strengthening the country's significant maritime talent pool.
Former Indian cricketer Irfan Pathan has highlighted the crucial role of India's seafaring community by addressing Fleet Management Ltd's global workforce and visiting their Mumbai office, emphasizing that seafarers are essential to global trade and commerce. During his engagement, Pathan drew parallels between the demands of international cricket and life at sea, stressing the importance of responsibility, teamwork, and performing under pressure, while also meeting with cadets from Fleet Management's training arm, the International Maritime Institute (IMI), to discuss discipline and resilience. This initiative by Fleet Management aligns with India's broader national ambition, as outlined in the Maritime India Vision, to become a top global maritime nation by 2047 through enhanced seafarer welfare, training, and fleet expansion, thus recognizing and strengthening the country's significant maritime talent pool.
Former Indian cricketer Irfan Pathan has lent his voice to India's often-overlooked seafaring community, telling Fleet Management Ltd's global workforce that "you make the world move" during a special tribute video and a visit to the company's Mumbai office on Monday.
The message from Pathan arrives as Fleet Management, one of the world's largest independent ship management companies, continues expanding its seafarer welfare programmes for a global workforce of more than 27,000 seafarers.
Pathan drew parallels between international cricket and life at sea, saying that seafaring, like professional sport, demands responsibility, teamwork and the ability to perform under pressure every single day, adding that most everyday goods reach people only because of the work seafarers do.
During his visit to Fleet Management's Andheri office, Pathan also met cadets from the International Maritime Institute (IMI), the company's maritime training arm, discussing composure, discipline and learning from setbacks, themes he said apply equally to cricket dressing rooms and ship bridges.
The company said that this was part of Fleet Management's broader push to strengthen India's maritime talent pipeline. The firm and IMI participated in recent national platforms such as India Maritime Week and the ITF Seafarer Expo in Mumbai, which drew over 4,000 members of India's maritime community earlier this year, given the Centre's own maritime ambitions.
Maritime India Vision aims to position India among the world's top five maritime nations by 2047 through investments in seafarer welfare, training and fleet expansion. Pathan's message, though a private-sector gesture, seems to be part of a wider national conversation about recognising and retaining India's seafaring workforce, which remains one of the largest sources of skilled maritime labour globally.