Education/Training News


SUNY Maritime Seniors Redesign Campus Power Grid

Apr 26, 2016

Fourteen light bulbs, representing electrical loads at different parts of campus, attached to a large plywood board lit up then, controlled by a sensor, turned off one by one or in small groups. The board, though several square feet, was…

SUNY Maritime to Honor High-profile Alumni

Apr 26, 2016

SUNY Maritime College will host its annual Admiral’s Scholarship Dinner May 3. This year’s event, organizers say, will be “out of this world.” Tom Higgins, ’80, executive vice president and chief administrative officer of First Data, a global…

IMEC, ITF Invest $3 Mln in Ukraine Maritime Training

Apr 26, 2016

The International Maritime Employers’ Council (IMEC) and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) have agreed to invest $3 million in Ukrainian marine training. The donation is being made from the Seafarers’ Employment Promotion Fund (SEPF)…

Kongsberg Introduces ECDIS E-Learning Course

Apr 25, 2016

Kongsberg Maritime’s ECDIS training portfolio has expanded with the introduction of an online E-Learning course for familiarisation training on its K-Bridge and K-Nav ECDIS products. Developed in compliance with STCW and ISM, the new course…

VPS, Seagull Maritime Join Forces for Fuel Management Training

Apr 25, 2016

Veritas Petroleum Services (VPS) and Seagull Maritime AS announced today that they have signed a collaborative agreement that will capitalise on their complementary strengths to bring state-of-the-art fuel management training to the maritime industry…

ExxonMobil, Employees Donate $45 Mln for Higher Education

Apr 24, 2016

ExxonMobil and its employees contributed a total of $45.4 million to institutions of higher education across the country as part of the ExxonMobil Foundation’s 2015 Educational Matching Gift Program.ExxonMobil employees, retirees, directors and surviving spouses contributed $13…

CO2 Emissions for Every Ship for Every Hour!

Apr 24, 2016

Researchers at UCL Energy Institute use the methodology they developed for the Third IMO GHG Study 2014 and AIS data to estimate emissions from five different ship types and display this in a new interactive map that plots 250 million data…

$2.58 mil Awarded for Maritime Heritage Education, Preservation

Apr 22, 2016

The National Park Service, in partnership with the Maritime Administration, has announced the award of $2.58 million in Maritime Heritage Program grants for projects in 19 states that preserve sites and objects related to our nation’s maritime history…

Crowley Scholarships to Texas A&M Cadets

Apr 22, 2016

Crowley Maritime Corporation’s 2016 Thomas B. Crowley Sr. Memorial Scholarships are helping to further educational opportunities for three students of Texas A&M University, all of whom are enrolled in the college’s License Option program and…

SSA Showcases OSV Sector with OSV@Vivo 'Open House'

Apr 21, 2016

OSV@Vivo has been taken to the heart of the Singapore public with an anticipated 4,000 visitors, expected to throng the two state-of-the-art Offshore Support Vessels (OSV) “Pacific Legacy” and “VOS Prince” moored at local shopping mall Vivocity Waterfront Promenade from 21 to 23 April 2016…

Crowley Scholarship for Three Texas A&M Students

Apr 21, 2016

Crowley Maritime Corporation’s 2016 Thomas B. Crowley Sr. Memorial Scholarships are helping to further educational opportunities for three students of Texas A&M University, all of whom are enrolled in the college’s License Option program and…

GMT Mobile Apps for Sailors Released

Apr 20, 2016

Two new mobile apps designed for Sailors to complete required Navy General Military Training (GMT) on Records Management (RM) and Privacy and Personally Identifiable Information (PII) Awareness became available April 19.PII and RM are annual GMT Standardized Core Training (SCT) requirements…

Stromberg to Lead LU’s Center for Advances in Port Management

Apr 19, 2016

Lamar University (LU) has tapped Erik Stromberg as the inaugural executive director of the Center for Advances in Port Management after a national search, officials announced today. Stromberg brings decades of experience in public ports to the new position as a CEO…

IBIA Develops Bunker Course with South Shields Marine School

Apr 19, 2016

The International Bunker Industry Association, (IBIA) has joined with South Shields Marine School at South Tyneside College, to develop a course unit on bunkering essentials for merchant navy cadets and engineering officers taking their Class one and Class two certificates of competency…

OMG 2016 Training Course Launched

Apr 19, 2016

Rockland Scientific Inc., Teledyne Webb Research (TWR) and Spanish partner INNOVA oceanografía litoral announced the inaugural Ocean Microstructure Glider Training Program (OMG 2016), scheduled for May 10-13, 2016 at the Marine Technological…

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