Rosmorrechflot (Russian Sea and River Fleet) has approved examination standards
The Federal Agency of Sea and River Transport has approved the examination standards for testing the competency of crew personnel. These standards are intended for usage by the Maritime Boards of Experts (MKK) of 19 port administrations of the Russian Federation for examination of seafarers and further issuance of certificates for officers and certificates of competency for ratings of merchant marine ships. The examination standards were developed by the Maritime Training Centre in collaboration with other organizations and experts of the industry in the form of data bases of examination questions and tasks for candidates for getting (or extending) certification documents.
Currently the data base includes more than 15 thousand qualification tasks almost for all categories of ship personnel and is used in the program system "Delta-Test" in more than 70 organizations of the industry, including maritime educational institutions, training centers, Maritime Boards of Experts (Qualification Commissions) of port administrations and shipping companies.Approval of the data bases was done for the execution of appropriate Rosmorrechflot's decisions and is going to be conducted on the yearly basis along with updating and extension of qualification requirements and capabilities of seafarers.
The approval decision was announced on June 7, 2006, in Saint-Petersburg at the seminar "Application of information technologies for examination of seafarers," which was carried out by Admiral Makarov State Maritime Academy under the aegis of the Federal Agency of Sea and River Transport.
