China Needs More Ships' Officers
According to Li Enhong, director of merchant seamen management at the Ministry of Transport, colleges are able to produce only a few thousand merchant sailors every year, far short of what is needed.
Mozambique Signs Up to Make Life Tough for Pirates
The Code of Conduct concerning the Repression of Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in the Western Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden (Djibouti Code of Conduct)…
US Navy Awards Landing Craft Contract to Textron
The Navy awards a $212 million contract for Textron Inc. In March 2011 a solicitation for Ship-to-Shore-Connector landing craft was issued by the U.S. Navy’s Naval Sea Systems Command.
ER Offshore Extends its GNSS Contract with Veripos
Under the new arrangement VERIPOS will continue to supply nine of ER Offshore’s PSVs with its VERIPOS Standard high-precision augmentation service providing metre-level accuracies.
ITF Launches East Asia Action Week
This is the second East Asia week of action for 2012, and involves joint teams of ITF inspectors, and seafarer and docker trade unionists making ship visits to check…
PC Rembrandt Simulator Gains DNV Accreditation
Class S- Standard for Certification of Maritime Simulators No. 2.14 ensures that the simulations provided by the simulator include an appropriate level of physical and behavioural realism in accordance with recognised training and assessment objectives. As part of the accreditation process, DNV carried out a rigorous audit of the software to ensure consistent outputs for a wide range of vessel manoeuvring studies and PC REMBRANDT passed these audits.
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