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Archive of entries posted on January 2006

UK. Port of Dover to host Maritime Careers Festival

(bymnews.com) BMF Members have been invited to participate in the 2006 Dover Maritime Careers Festival, which is being held at the Dover Cruise Terminal 2, Western Docks, Dover on the Friday 24th and Saturday 25th March. This is being staged in conjunction with the “Sea Vision (SE) Careers Group South Kent College and Port of [...]

Wärtsilä Land & Sea Academy, Turku, Finland – Grand Opening

(webwire.com) 25 January, 2006, Wärtsilä Land & Sea Academy (WLSA) today opened a new training centre in Turku, Finland. This is the latest step for WLSA in its development programme of opening three Academies for global coverage of training and competence management services to ship owners and power plant owners. A new training centre was [...]

AMC gets set for .5m tech makeover

(www.abc.net.au) Training in ship handling at the Australian Maritime College (AMC) in Launceston is to be improved with a $3.5 million grant to improve facilities. The funding is part of the Federal Government’s $49 million national capital development pool. AMC’s vice-president Professor Tom Hardy says the college’s ship handling simulator will be upgraded to improve [...]