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An interesting, day long seminar on “Opportunities for Maritime Research in Academia and Industries” was hosted by the AMET University, Chennai in support with National Maritime Foundation, New Delhi on February 06 at Hotel Le Royal Meridien, Chennai.

The seminar was held to commemorate the 18th year of AMET’s establishment and the 3rd year of becoming the First University for Maritime Education in India.

After registration by the participants, delegates and media, the seminar started around 1000 hours with introduction of all speakers. A souvenir was also released and distributed on this occasion.

Welcome Address was given by Capt. S. Bhardwaj, Vice Chancellor, AMET University; followed by Opening Address by Mr. J. Ramachandran, Chancellor, AMET University and Theme Address by Dr. L.R. Chary, Prof. Emeritus, AMET University.

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Lloyd’s Register’s Marine Training Services is going to conduct Essential Dry-Docking Course this month.

Some interesting features of this course are:

• to be conducted at Piraeus, Greece.
• duration: three days from June 29.
• course is designed to provide all the essential information needed to prepare, plan and execute a successful dry-docking.
• course is helpful to existing marine superintendents, technical managers, fleet managers, senior sea staff and anyone involved in planning a docking.
• the course will cover:
  • introduction to dry-docks
  • specification preparation and tender evaluation
  • the importance of planning
  • repairs
  • preparation for departure
  • a new feature called Lloyd’s Register’s lexicon of learning: heutagogy – ’self-determined learning’
• on completion of the course, the candidate will
  • be able to prepare, plan and cost a dry-docking
  • have a more in depth knowledge of dry-docks
  • be able to contingency plan for repairs and modifications
  • be more pragmatic and understand what can and cannot be done within the Rules of classification

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The University of Greenwich is offering, MBA in Maritime Management through E-learning. You can complete the course by studying at your home or in your workplace and at convenient time to you.

The course is scheduled to commence in September 2009.

Some of the interesting features of ‘MBA in Maritime Management’ course are:

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AMET University at Chennai offers wide range of marine courses to seafarers and to those who want to be seafarers.

The courses offered for the academic year 2009-2010 are (click the image on the right):

• B.SC., Nautical Science
• B.E., Marine Engineering
• GME: Graduate Mechanical Engineering
• B.E., Naval Architecture & Offshore Engineering
• B.E., Petroleum & Offshore Engineering
• B.E., Harbour Engineering & Offshore Technology
• B.E., Electrical & Electronics Engineering – Marine
• B.E., Electronics & Communications Engineering – Marine
• B.E., Applied Marine Information Technology and Communications
• B.B.M., Shipping
• HND Marine Engineering (U.K)
• HND Nautical Science (U.K)
• M.B.A., Shipping & Logistics Management
• M.B.A., Shipping Finance
• M.B.A., Marine Human Resource Management
• M.B.A., Cruise Ship Hospitality Management
• M.Sc., Marine Bio-Technology
• M.Sc., Fleet Operations Management
• M.Tech., Marine Engineering Management

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Good news for youngsters.

Defence Institute of Psychological Research (DIPR) conducts a free online test, to know your potential to become an Officer in the Indian Armed Forces (Army, Navy and Air Force). DIPR is a premier research laboratory of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), and has completed fifty-seven years of dedicated service to the nation.

Why to join Indian Armed Forces ?

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National Geographic Channel India has launched TV series “Mission Navy : Lehron ke Sartaj” from February 02 on prime time at 2100 hours on Mondays. The show is about the Indian Navy in eight episodes. Those who missed the first episode can view the repeat telecast on Tuesday at 0300 hours and 0900 hours.

Some of the interesting features of Nat Geo Mission Navy TV series are:

• to give an insight of the Indian Navy personnel at sea.
• to view the Indian Navy through the eyes of five civilian young men and women. To know who are those, log on to Express Buzz.
• the purpose of launching the TV series is at Telly Watch.

After watching each episode on prime time, you can take part in a contest and answer simple questions. The lucky winner will get once in a lifetime opportunity to go skydiving with the Indian Navy.

View here, an interesting video clip on Indian Navy.

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The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, inaugurated the Naval Academy (NAVAC) in Ezhimala, Kerala on January 08. The Naval Academy was planned as a full-fledged permanent Naval Academy to replace the present Naval Academy, INS Mandovi at Goa.  Surprisingly it has taken almost 22 years to inaugurate the Academy for which the foundation stone was laid by the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on January 17, 1987.

This Academy will prove to be the premier officer-training establishment of the Indian Navy and is the largest Naval Academy in Asia. From June this year, all officers inducted into the Indian Navy, under various schemes, will undergo basic training at this Academy.

Some of the interesting features of Naval Academy, Ezhimala are:

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Indian Maritime University (IMU) was inaugurated on December 31, at Chennai. IMU is the first central university to be set up by the Department of Shipping through an Act of Parliament. The Act was notified in the Government of India’s Gazette on November 11, 2008. IMU is bound to improve the quality of marine training further, to help Indian seafarers to compete globally and to increase from about 6% representation in the worldwide seafarers.

Maritime education was so far under the control of the Directorate General of Shipping (DGS), India through the Indian Institute of Maritime Studies (IIMS). The Institutes under IIMS are:

• T.S. Chanakya, Navi Mumbai.
• Lal Bahadur Shastri College of Advanced Maritime Studies and Research, Mumbai.
• Marine Engineering and Research Institute (MERI), Mumbai.
• Marine Engineering and Research Institute (MERI), Kolkata.

In addition

• National Maritime Academy (erstwhile National Institute of Port Management) is at Chennai under the Ministry of Shipping, Government of India.
• National Ship Design and Research Center (NSDRC) is at Visakhapatnam under the Ministry of Shipping, Government of India.
• The Indian Institute of Ports Management (IIPM) at Kolkata.

Further there are around 120 private marine training institutes, approved by DGS and spread over India.

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Olympic Sailing Competition 2008 at Qingdao, China concluded on August 24. The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Sailing Competition witnessed participation by 400 of the world’s finest sailors in 272 boats represented by 62 nations. There were 11 sailing events during 13 days of competition to decide 33 medal winners.

Winning a race is purely the outcome of the training the sailors have undergone. Here is Virtual Sailing Simulator (also called as VSail Simulators, VSail-Trainer) which has helped the Olympic sailors to train themselves. VSail Simulator is the world’s first and only commercially available sailing simulator.

Some of the interesting features of VSail-Trainer are:

• Computer controlled, pneumatic powered full sized sail boat simulator.
• Interfaced with a computer to run on Windows 98/2000/XP with a dedicated nVidia graphics processor.
• Real time controls are available like a sail boat with a tiller for steering, a mainsheet for sail control and to apply body weight for controlling the heel angle by the sailors.
• At sea course configurations and wind conditions can be preset to suit any level of sailor from complete beginner to advanced sailor.
• An optional “Access Unit” inside the cockpit helps the simulator to be controlled by either a mechanical joystick or an electronic joystick depending on the ability of the sailor.

Here are some photographs of the VSail-Trainer:

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Here is a good news to Indian youth to join Merchant Navy. The age limit is now twenty five to join pre sea courses.

The reason ? Here is an interesting news report from Live Mint which highlights:

• Presently Indian seafarers are about 82,000 including about 26,900 officers and 55,000 ratings.
• Every year, 15% of 1.18 million global seafarers quit seafaring profession to take up shore based jobs.
• Due to this, there is going to be an estimated global shortage of 27,000 marine officers by 2015 from the present shortage of about 10,000.
• Seafaring profession is no more attractive to Indian urban youth.
• Age limit is now increased to facilitate the youth from rural areas to join the seafaring profession.
• Unfortunately, the maritime education fee currently ranges from INR 2.5 lakh to 10 lakh, depending upon the course and the college, though education loans are available from banks.

As per Director General of Shipping, Training Circular No.19-TR(4)/2008 dated 7th August 2008, the maximum age limit is now upto 25 years for admission in the following pre-sea courses:

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An interactive International Marine Insurance Seminar by Lloyd’s Maritime Academy is going to start from April 28. The seminar would go on for three days at Lloyd’s Maritime Academy Training Suite, London. This year the seminar has been extended to include Norwegian, US and German law.

Seminar highlights are:

Day 1

• Marine insurance law: Overview and latest developments
• Hull and machinery insurance: The fundamentals
• War risks and war P&I
• Reinsurance of state insurers and captives
• Brokers duties and the duty of good faith
• Marine liability cover (protection & indemnity) through the P&I clubs

Day 2

• International regulation and ship owners’ limitation of liability
• Claims settlements: Procedures in getting payment from underwriters
• Norwegian marine insurance plan: A different approach to marine insurance
• Workshop – Claims

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The Singapore Maritime Academy (SMA) known as the best seafaring Training Institution in the Asia Pacific, has in partnership with Teledata Marine Solutions (TMS) started offering online courses for (Certificate of Competency) CoC 3 Deck and CoC 5 Marine Engineering programmes.

Successful preparations for Certificates of Competency by sea-going Officers was so far possible only by attending courses in a qualified marine training institute. This method, inspite of providing interactive learning between the Faculty and the Learner, has many shortcomings.

• The sea going officer has to spare most of his leave to attend classes by sacrificing his happy leave period with his family.
• Courses are mostly conducted only in major port cities, thus increasing the cost by relocating the sea farer for the duration of the course.
• Merely joining a course does not guarantee successful completion of the course.

At SMA, Certificate of Competency Class 3 (Deck) Course which normally takes 18 weeks and Class 5 (MEO) Preparatory course of 2 weeks can now be completed in less than half the time, by successfully completing the on line courses. This is going to help the seafarer to cut down the course expenses, save his leave and improve his pass rate.

Also the running costs of SMA for these courses will reduce, by these online CoC E-Learning Programme.

Source:businesstimes

Many of us know that ships are generally utilised for cargo movement,fishing and for military applications. There are ships being deployed as Mobile Floating University also. This post is to highlight about Mobile Floating University.

1.The Institute for Shipboard Education:

Established in 1976 has in fact commenced mobile floating university operations from the year 1920s. Since then different ships S.S. Ryndam, M.S. Seven Seas, S.S.University Campus, S.S.Universe, S.S.Universe Explorer, M.T.S. World Renaissance have contributed to this program.

2.Institutions represented on Semester at Sea:

More than 100 colleges and universities from which students and faculty have come over the years. The program began in 1963 as the University of the Seven Seas. It was renamed World Campus Afloat in 1965 and Semester at Sea in 1976. Over 45,000 students have so far enrolled in this programs.

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1.On 16 October 2007, Indian Union Minister of Shipping, Road Transport & Highways T.R. Baalu, inaugurated the state-of-the-art Mauritius Maritime Training Academy at Pointe aux Sables.

Speaking on the occasion, Thiru T.R. Baalu said that this Training Academy would act as a bridge to further augment the bilateral cooperation between the two countries. He said that in due course, apart from having experienced trainers, this Academy would have to conduct training for even deck and engineering officers and would also have to install a large number of training equipments such as lifeboats, life rafts and various types of simulators etc. To equip the Academy with all these necessary facilities, there would be need for tangible cooperation between India and Mauritius, Thiru Baalu added.

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