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 […]
Maritime communications company Inmarsat has launched a cyber security mobile training app for crew at the same time as introducing two components to its maritime cyber security service, Fleet Secure. Fleet Secure Endpoint has been […]
The Netherlands-based simulator manufacturer VSTEP has moved some of its functions to a new ‘innovation hotspot’ situated near to the former shipyard Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij (RDM) in the Rotterdam Innovation District. “This new location will serve […]
KVH Videotel has introduced a training package, Seafarers Mental Health and Wellbeing, which will be free of charge throughout the shipping industry “due to the critical importance of the topic”. The programme was produced in […]
In a recent speech in Manila, the chairman of global shipowners organisation the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), Esben Poulsson, called for a comprehensive revision of the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and […]
Each month Safety at Sea magazine runs a survey, asking crews for their opinions on topics impacting their safety. This survey, from the August 2018 issue, looks at crew’s attitudes to, and experiences of, lifeboat […]
There was a time, not so long ago, when navigators were used to paper charts. Suddenly, there was a huge change on our bridges with the introduction of electronic navigation charts. Training was conducted, certificates […]
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