The increasing number of port professional positions and the lack of qualified candidates to fill them has prompted a Canadian agency to launch a new training scheme.

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• Graig Ship Management expands training program

    Cardiff-based Graig Ship Management is widening its training scheme by sponsoring 20 Vietnamese officer cadets. Under an agreement with Ho Chi Minh City-based University of Transport and Dutch education provider STC Graig Ship Management will sponsor ten 2nd year and… Read at Graig Ship Management widens training scheme

• IMO Member State Audit Scheme compulsory

    The IMO Member State Audit Scheme, set up as a voluntary scheme among flag states, is to be made mandatory, under a plan to institutionalise it, agreed by the IMO Assembly, when it met for its 26th regular session from… Read at IMO Member State Audit Scheme to be compulsory

• IMO Member State Audit Scheme compulsory

    The IMO Member State Audit Scheme, set up as a voluntary scheme among flag states, is to be made mandatory, under a plan to institutionalise it, agreed by the IMO Assembly, when it met for its 26th regular session from… Read at IMO Member State Audit Scheme to be compulsory

• GAC in the Irish Sea Training Venture

    A new training initiative, GAC Training & Service Solutions Limited (GTSS), has been launched through a joint venture between GAC and the National Maritime College of Ireland (NMCI) which will provide innovative and cost saving training solutions for seafarers. The… Read at GAC in Irish maritime training venture

• Intership training to use bulk vessels

    Limassol-based Intership Navigation has taken its training responsibilities seriously and ordered two 180,000 dwt bulk carriers that will also serve as dedicated training vessels. According to a report in the daily shipping newspaper Lloyd’s List, each vessel will carry 12… Read at Intership to use bulk carriers as training ships

• Intership for bulk use as training ships

    Limassol-based Intership Navigation has taken its training responsibilities seriously and ordered two 180,000 dwt bulk carriers that will also serve as dedicated training vessels. According to a report in the daily shipping newspaper Lloyd’s List, each vessel will carry 12… Read at Intership to use bulk carriers as training ships

• NOTES Graig on Vietnamese CADETS

    UK-based Graig Ship Management says it is widening its training scheme by sponsoring twenty Vietnamese officer cadets. Under an agreement with Ho Chi Minh City-based University of Transport and Dutch education provider STC, Graig Ship Management will sponsor ten 2nd year and ten 3rd year cadets, both deck and engine, to

• Bibby Ship Management training is a milestone

    Bibby Ship Management has announced it has trained more than 1,000 graduates at its dynamic positioning training facility in Mumbai.

• Bibby Ship Management opens training center in New Delhi

    Bibby Ship Management has opened a new dynamic positioning training centre in New Delhi to cater for increasing demand to train seafarers from Northern India, building upon the current success of its Mumbai training centre. The new facility in the… Read at Bibby Ship Management opens training centre in New Delhi

• Certex launches new safety and rigging training

    National lifting gear distributor Certex UK is launching a series of free training seminars designed specifically for those working in the rigging industry. Read at Certex launches new safety and rigging training seminars

• Ship Equip launches new training program

    Norway-based Ship Equip has launched a new in-house training programme known as the Ship Equip Academy, created in order to serve both employees and customers as part of an effort to maintain and increase the level of industry knowledge as… Read at Ship Equip launches new training programme

• Jeppesen Marine ECDIS supports education in Bergen Maritime Technical School

    Jeppesen Marine is contributing to the training of the next generation of seafarers in electronic navigational charts and ECDIS by supplying systems and data to one of Norwayâ??s leading maritime training institutions, Bergen Maritime Technical School. Read at Jeppesen marine supports ECDIS training at Bergen maritime technical school

• TBA complete training program with checks at the Port of Gothenburg

    TBA, the Netherlands-based provider of decision support, operations optimization and fleet control services, has successfully trained the staff of the Port of Göteborg container terminal on CATOS with its emulation software CONTROLS. Read at TBA completes training program with CONTROLS at the Port of Göteborg

• Finnish Training Center receives accreditation

     Aboa Mare University of Applied Sciences, located in Turku (Finland), has recently received the accreditation of the Nautical Institute as an official Dynamic Positioning (DP) training center. Dynamic positioning is becoming especially important for sophisticated offshore operations and the need… Read at Finnish training centre wins accreditation

• Planning new dockworkers strike at Milford Haven

    Managers at Wales’ largest port have won a court injunction to stop a strike this week – but workers say they will now walk out next Tuesday. Milford Haven Port Authority went to the High Court to stop around 50 pilots and launch crew members from striking on Thursday and