Lloyd’s Register has awarded Approved Training Provider (ATP) Certification to Hae Young Maritime Services Co. Ltd. (HMS), a subsidiary of Hyundai Merchant Marine Co. Ltd (HMM), one of Korea’s largest shipping companies. The HMS Training Center at Busan, Korea trains seafarers under The Society of International Gas Tanker and Terminal Operators (SIGTTO) training standards. It [...]
ASC has welcomed 43 new apprentices to its submarine maintenance and shipbuilding business, making its apprenticeship program one of the largest in South Australia. ASC Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Mr Steve Ludlam, said the new intake brings ASC’s total number of apprentices to 130. “ASC is committed to developing skill and talent in [...]
Zamakona Yards organized a lecture-conference meeting focused on the Offshore Oil & Gas Market in West Africa in cooperation with the Naval Repairers Association (RNA) on Monday the 6th of May. ”Our Group is aware of the strategic importance this booming industry has to the port of Las Palmas and the great challenges ship repair [...]
To further strengthen basic safety management, improve safety self-management system, ensure the implementation of safety training, prevent accidents and improve safety management level systematically, in accordance with the requirement of safety production by CSSC, Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. (SWS) has begun to adopt quantified index to measure safety self-management and every other safety indicator and [...]
A&P Falmouth has launched an apprenticeship recruitment search to find raw talent in Cornwall to train and hone into the skilled engineering and marine workers of the future. In the last five years A&P, as one of the biggest commercial ship repair companies in the UK, has recruited 33 adult trainees for specialist in-house training. [...]
Warsash Maritime Academy will reaffirm its place as a world-leading training platform for seafaring pilots, masters and ships officers when it welcomes the eighth scaled ship model to its fleet in May 2013. It will be the first container ship to join the existing fleet at Southampton Solent University’s Ship Handling Centre when it is [...]
From April to June, Zamakona Yards in the Canary Islands is cooperating on the training of higher level students throughout the naval field. The students are from Felo Monzón Secondary School Grau Bassas, New Isleta Tony Gallardo, Lomo Apolinario, 7 Palmas and the University of Las Palmas. They are receiving theoretical and practical training on [...]
GE has signed an agreement with Shanghai Maritime University (SMU). GE helps improve the capabilities of the shipping engineering community in China by providing laboratory facilities and cooperating on research and innovation projects. SMU is a multidisciplinary university that encompasses such areas as engineering, management, economics, law, liberal arts and science, with a special emphasis [...]
Improved performance, efficiency, and sustainability all figure strongly in the new solutions that GE’s Power Conversion business is unveiling at OTC 2013, the Offshore Technology Conference taking place in Houston, TX, on May 6-9. Technology innovations that the company will display in its exhibition booth, 3163, in Hall C, include: Enhanced Dynamic Positioning system with [...]
U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced the nation’s newest research vessel will be named R/V Sally Ride, in honor of the former UC San Diego faculty member who was the first American female astronaut and the youngest American to fly in space. The ship is owned by the U.S. Navy, will be operated [...]
