Admiral Makarov State Maritime Academy has won the tender of the Finnish Maritime Administration
Finnish Maritime Administration has completed the tender procedure for making a training film on DVD intended for crews of vessels engaged in ice navigation. The winner of the tender has been the Admiral Makarov State Maritime Academy jointly with a group of Finnish companies, involved in safety of navigation project works.
The general contractor of the DVD-film is going to be Deltamarin the Finnish company specialized in consultations, designing and technical support of shipborne and maritime engineering. Except the AMSMA project executives are going to be the Finnish State Icebreaker Fleet operator Finstaship and training centre Meriturva (Helsinki).
The project is aimed at making a training film covering the aspects of ice navigation, including pre-voyage training, types of ice, ice-conditions map, ice class concept, general principles of maneouvring in ice conditions, solo navigation, navigation in the convoy with icebreaker assistance and communication with icebreaker. The Academy plans to use the technological basis of the Makarov Training Centre, personnel resources of the Arctic and Navigation faculties and to engage ice supply and ice navigation specialists for solving the problem.
The initiative of the AMSMA involvement comes from the Finnish part. According to the Head of the Deltamarin Arctic Business Development department Kimmo Juurmaa the choice was stipulated by the significant expertise in the field of deck officers and pilots simulator training at the Makarov Training Centre. The centre has been conducting preparation for ice navigation since 2003, worked out specialized program for simulator training and installed the ice simulator. Among almost 200 navigators and pilots that have passed ice navigation courses at the MTC the most volume of training is obtained by the foreign crews from Greece, Spain, Holland, Bulgaria and Romania. For the present among the Russian shipowners ice navigation training is demanded only by Sovcomflot.
