ECDIS Training
The Nautical Institute has announced publication of Industry Recommendations for ECDIS Training to address confusion in regard to ECDIS training. The guidance has been issued by an industry group made up of leading international shipping industry organisations and organised and coordinated by The Nautical Institute. The guidance covers issues of training and competency for ECDIS [...] Full Story

Ship Call
Videotel Marine International has launched a new training programme, Ship Call – Visiting a Ship in Port, designed to provide all those who visit ships the training needed to reduce the risks involved in any ship call. “Seafarers are highly trained, but in the past even they have come to serious harm boarding vessels,” says [...] Full Story

EU Audit
The European Union is set to conduct an audit on the state of the Philippine maritime education system, the results of which may prove to be either a boon or bane for Filipino seafarers. EU Ambassador to the Philippines Guy Ledoux said representatives from the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA), an agency attached to the EU, [...] Full Story

Training Deal
Cosco Maritime (UK), part of one of the world’s largest shipping groups, has signed anagreement with Oxford Aviation Academy (OAA) for the acquisition of a Maritime CrewResource Management (MCRM) licence to deliver training at its Shanghai Training Centre, China. In addition to providing MCRM training support to Cosco’s instructor team,OAA training materials will also be [...] Full Story

STCW Warning
The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has advised shipping companies to ensure that they comply with the Manila amendments to STCW. In particular, seafarers’ rest hours and the more stringent requirements for preventing drug and alcohol abuse that now apply worldwide should be taken into account, the ICS said. The (ICS) and the International Shipping [...] Full Story

Scholarly Pursuit
As part of its nationwide search for Filipino scholars, the Norwegian Training Center is now accepting online application for scholarship programs for marine transportation and marine engineering. The scholarship program provides opportunities for poor but deserving Filipino youth to pursue quality maritime education, and become competitive seafarers in the international maritime market. The scholarship program, [...] Full Story

Past, Present and Future
A restored tall ship berthed at Liverpool’s Albert Dock is to form the centre piece of a city college’s new maritime academy. The Glaciere, a Baltic trader ship built in 1899, was raised from the bottom of South Collingwood Dock in October 2003 and now fully restored and functional sits proudly in Albert Dock. Under [...] Full Story

College Praise
A top executive of MAERSK Line, the largest container shipping firm in the world, lauded the Maritime Academy of Asia and the Pacific (MAAP) for its exemplary standard in maritime education, thus producing quality merchant marine officers in the Asia-Pacific region. In her commencement keynote speech at the graduation of MAAP dual class of Dec. [...] Full Story

Standards Gap
The Philippines is continuing its policy to close what it judges to be substandard maritime courses following a negative assessment by the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA). EMSA’s audit of the country’s training facilities uncovered major deficiencies and non-compliance in maritime education and training. The clampdown is being orchestrated through the Commission on Higher Education [...] Full Story

Royal Appointment
The Duke of Edinburgh visited Warsash Maritime Academy’s new manned model ship handling centre at Timsbury on Tuesday 4 October.  This was the second time that The Duke has visited the Academy’s ship handling facility, the previous occasion being to the old Marchwood location in 1996. His Royal Highness enjoyed a tour of the lake [...] Full Story