Wärtsilä’s simulator software will be installed in three maritime training centres across the Netherlands to allow vocational students learning modern navigational skills to spend more time on practical simulator training. The systems, powered by Wärtsilä […]
China has strengthened its dry bulk cargo regulations over concerns about liquefaction. China’s Ministry of Transport has recently circulated a bulletin explaining its decision and detailing what the heightened rules mean for vessel operators. In […]
Southampton’s Solent University claims it now has the largest and most sophisticated simulator facility in the UK. Its Warsash School of Maritime Science and Engineering maritime simulation centre was opened by Michael Bibby, president of […]
The Singapore government has launched a new co-ordination centre that will bolster its maritime infrastructure against threats in the cyber domain. Known as the Maritime Cybersecurity Operations Centre (MSOC), the facility was launched by the […]
Two of the industry’s most prominent e-learning providers Videotel and Seagull have been taken under the umbrella of a global investment firm to work together as a combined group. Oakley Capital partnered with the management teams of […]
The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), together with Employment and Employability Institute (e2i) and partner companies, has pledged SGD8.88 million (USD6.5 million) to extend funding for the Certificate of Competency (CoC) Class 5 […]
Lloyd’s Register (LR) has launched a cyber awareness training to its customers to boost cyber resilience. Developed in partnership with cyber security training company AXELOS RESILIA Frontline, LR said the awareness training is engaging and “an […]
A training film aims to prevent shore staff phoning ships’ masters in the middle of the night on relatively trivial matters. Helen Sampson of the Seafarers International Research Centre (SIRC), at Cardiff University, has developed the […]
The European Commission will co-finance a project to develop strategies to identify and meet the future skills needs of the maritime sector and attract greater numbers of Europeans to work in maritime industries. The four-year SkillSea […]
The Nautical Institute (NI) has launched the second edition of Handling Ships in Ice, a practical guide to shiphandling in ‘new ice’ conditions in the Baltic, North Atlantic, and St Lawrence Seaway. Handling ships in first-year ice […]
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