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Security awareness training and training for those with specific security duties

The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement's (BSEE) national oil spill response research and renewable energy test facility, Ohmsett

UK Chamber President Marcus Bowman took part in a panel discussion on maritime skills as part of the International Festival for Business in Liverpool.

An increasing number of organisations in the shipping industry are committing to ISO 50001, the energy efficiency standard applied to organisations in industries around the world. In recognition of this Videotel is supporting the industry with its new ISO 50001 Energy Management Training Course. Says Nigel Cleave, CEO of Videotel Marine International: “It is estimated that the standard could influence up to 60% of the world’s energy use and the shipping industry is keen to play its part. ISO 50001 can make a positive difference for organizations of all types both in the short term and also in supporting longer term efforts to improve energy technologies.” Adds Mr Cleave: “It also cannot be ignored that companies certified to ISO 50001 standard look to their supply chain and are encouraged to do business with companies similarly certified. “Videotel aims to make a company’s progression to ISO 50001 accreditation as straight forward as possible. The course not only deals with the processes involved, but also can be used as a way to educate and motivate key players both on the vessel and ashore as to why this is happening and what it means for them. We do this by taking a fictitious ...

Videotel is supporting the industry with its new ISO 50001 Energy Management Training Course

The WMU-founded by the International IMO a specialized agency of the United Nations, and the Maritime Academy of DNV GL

MOL announced that its group company MOL Marine Consulting, has acquired certification for its BRM training program from NK

Siport21 has upgraded and developed maintenance tasks in its Real-Time Ship Simulation Center in order to improve the quality of its facilities and services offered to its clients. This center, which has celebrated its 15º Anniversary, is DNV-GL approved, for the execution of port design studies. The certificate is also valid for Pilots, Captains and Officers education and training, either in a basic level or for specialized, advanced or retraining courses. The investment has consisted in the upgrade of the software significantly improving the 3D visual effects. On the other hand, new instrumentation has been set up: an ECDIS "Kelvin Hughes Marine Systems" -meeting the requirements of SOLAS regulation V/19-. The ECDIS consists of a database of electronic charts, together with the hardware and software needed to display simultaneously the charts and the ship's own position, and to perform navigational tasks such as route planning, route monitoring, measurement of distances on the chart, vessel position prediction, etc. It has also enabled a PPU Connection (Portable Pilot Unit) to help the manoeuvres of the Pilots. Finally, the bridge console has also been extended in order to improve the use of the bridge instrumentation. In one of the secondary bridges, the visual ...

Anti- bullying film receives award

VSTEP won a prestigious contract to install FMB and Tug simulators at all three FIDENA Maritime Schools in Mexico. The contract was won by VSTEP and its Mexican partner Edutelsa through an official competitive tender procedure and enables FIDENA to replace its old simulator technology with DNV certified NAUTIS simulators. FIDENA is the educational institution in charge of formal and comprehensive education of all seafarers in Mexico. It is the only institution in Mexico that offers higher level study programs in the maritime field and has wide international recognition. FIDENA has three nautical schools located in Mazatlan, Tampico and Veracruz and its Headquarters in Mexico City. FIDENA purchased three NAUTIS DNV Class A Full Mission Bridge Simulators and three Tug Simulators for each of its nautical schools. The NAUTIS Certified DNV Class A Full Mission Bridge simulators have a 270° horizontal field of view and are fully compliant with the Class A DNV Standards for Certification No. 2.14 for Maritime Simulator Systems and IMO model courses 1.22 and 1.32. They address all new elements from the newly revised IMO STCW Convention and allows realistic training of a wide variety of training courses. The Tug Simulators are high performance desktop trainers ...