Interview: A Filipino Captain at the Heart of NYK Headquarters　インタビュー、日本郵船本社で活躍するフィリピン人船長の視点

Captain Daniel Tarifa Capiral on “The Mission of Sustaining a Safety Culture”

ダニエル・タリファ・キャピラル船長に聞く　「安全文化をつなぐ使命」

Captain Daniel Tarifa Capiral, who serves as a Marine Superintendent in the Safety and Quality Team of the Dry Bulk Marine Quality Control Group at NYK, is a graduate of the prestigious MAAP (Maritime Academy of Asia and the Pacific) in the Philippines. Since joining NYK via IMMAJ in 2004, he has never changed companies and has built his entire career within the organisation.

Key points of the article

→ Captain Daniel Tarifa Capiral is a rare maritime professional who has built broad seagoing experience across multiple vessel types, particularly gas carriers and bulkers, and who, after his promotion to master, has gone on to take responsibility for training, education, and safety-quality management, drawing directly on his frontline experience at sea.

→ Now based at NYK Line’s Tokyo head office, Captain Capiral is engaged in safety dialogue with overseas shipowners, onboard assessments, and the dissemination of NAV9000, the group’s proprietary safety standard. In this interview, he reflects on his formative years as a seafarer, his approach to safety, and offers a message to the next generation of seafarers.

(Interview by Hirofumi Yamamoto. Conducted on 18 November; titles as of the time of the interview.)

“You can read the rest of the article in both English and Japanese.”（続きは英語と日本語で書かれた本文でお読みください）

インタビュー、日本郵船本社で活躍するフィリピン人船長の視点

ダニエル・タリファ・キャピラル船長に聞く　「安全文化をつなぐ使命」

日本郵船ドライバルク輸送品質グループ・安全品質チームで海務監督（Marine Superintendent）を務めるダニエル・タリファ・キャピラル（Daniel Tarifa Capiral）船長は、フィリピンの名門商船大学MAAP（Maritime Academy of Asia and the Pacific）出身で、2004年にIMMAJを通じてNYKへ入社して以来、一度も会社を変えずにキャリアを積んできた。

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→Daniel Tarifa Capiral船長はガス船・バルカーを中心に幅広い船種を経験し、船長昇格後は現場経験をもとに教育・安全品質管理を担う希少な存在だ。

→現在は東京の日本郵船本店で、外航船主との安全に関する対話や訪船評価、NAV9000の普及を担う同船長に、育成期の体験から安全に対する考え方、そして次世代船員へのメッセージまでを聞いた。（聞き手　山本裕史）※取材日＝11月18日、肩書はインタビュー当時。

“You can read the rest of the article in both English and Japanese.”（続きは英語と日本語で書かれた本文でお読みください）