The Academy Won the Tender for establishing the Simulation Centre in Kazakhstan
The Admiral Makarov State Maritime Academy was admitted to be the winner of the open tender for the development of the feasibility report to install the National Maritime Training Centre in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The installation of such centre is stipulated by the fact that developing oil extraction, processing and export Kazakhstan faced the problem of maritime transportation. To solve this problem it is necessary to build modern oil fleet, shore oil transferring complexes, to prepare personnel both for terminals and for merchant fleet.
Since 2001 trustful and fruitful relations established between the AMSMA and NMSC "Kazmortransflot", the first national Kazakhstan shipping company, while discussing problems of fleet personnel training. The Makarov Training Centre arranged the external courses for training the personnel in accordance with ISM Code, and also to train tanker fleet specialists. In 2005 crew members of the first two tankers NMS "Kazmortransflot" built at the Vyborg Shipbuilding plant had a number of training courses and their competence was assessed using the complex "Delta Test".
The feasibility report for the project development will describe tasks to be solved by the Centre, forms of project realization, kinds of training, costs for the equipment and maintenance of the Centre, requirements to the premises, instructors training and others. In the framework of the designed report the problems which are of the great importance for shipowners, such as arrangement of the initial training for ratings, further training of senior crewmembers, additional training for safety personnel and various up-grading courses for improvement of professional skills of maritime and shore specialists will be touched upon.
At present the Makarov Training Centre has accomplished the first stage of the project realization. According to the plan the operations are to be completed in the 2nd quarter of 2006. Under the preliminary calculation the total cost of the installation of such centre is not less than $3M.
