SUNY Maritime College Introduces New Assistant Engineer License Program

SUNY Maritime College is now offering a 30-month Assistant Engineer (Limited Oceans) License Program, leading to an Associate Degree in Applied Science. Maritime is the only college in the United States to offer this program that upon completion, allows a student to receive a license as an Assistant Engineer (Limited-Oceans) of steam and/or motor vessels. The new license program meets…
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Maine Maritime announces ISM/ Auditor course

Maine Maritime Academy and Warsash Maritime Academy are pleased to announce the upcoming course ISM/ Auditor/ ISO/ Lead Auditor including ISO 14001 and ISPS which begins on October 26th and runs through October 30th at Maine Maritime Academy. This five day course is designed to prepare practicing and potential auditors of international maritime safety management systems for the mandatory certification…
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The 3rd Annual “Women on the Water” Conference

Please join the Maritime Administration and the Maine Maritime Academy for the third annual “Women on the Water†conference on October 15-17, 2009 on the campus of the Maine Maritime Academy in Castine, Maine.  Each year, this highly successful event brings midshipmen and cadets attending America's maritime academies together with some of the most successful members of the maritime industry…
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MARPOL Training Institute, Inc. adds essential Annexes to software program

Middletown, California - MARPOL Training Institute, Inc. (MTI) has recently added MARPOL Annex II Regulations for the Control of Pollution by Noxious Liquid Substances in Bulk and Annex III Regulations for the Prevention of Pollution by Harmful Substances Carried by Sea in Packaged Form to their software package: Meeting MARPOL Standards (MMS). This comprehensive computer-based training software package now covers…
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Massachusetts Maritime receives gift from Clean Harbors Environmental Services for naming rights to athletic facilities

Buzzards Bay, Mass. -- The Massachusetts Maritime Academy has received a pledge from Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Inc. of Norwell, Mass. in the amount of $1.5 million dollars for naming rights to its contiguous athletic stadium and gymnasium complex.  The acceptance of the pledge, which was presented by Clean Harbors Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Alan S. McKim, was approved…
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NTSB asks academies to teach lessons of grounding involving new third mate

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has urged the nation's maritime academies to teach cadets the lessons of the 2007 grounding of the cruise ship Empress of the North. In February 2009, the NTSB issued a safety recommendation to six maritime academies and the Passenger Vessel Association. The statement addresses "the need for maritime academy cadets to understand their responsibilities…
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CALIFORNIA MARITIME ACADEMY

(Vallejo, CA – April 22, 2009)… The California Maritime Academy today announced, that the California Commission on Police Officer Standards and Training (CA POST) has certified the university’s First Responder Operational Maritime Security (FROMS) course for Continuing Professional Training (CPT) credit. FROMS focuses on the unique considerations which emergency responders must address in the maritime environment. The course has already…
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SUNY Maritime to honor ABS, Kirby, emeritus Prof

On Tuesday, May 5th, the State University of New York Maritime College will salute the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), Kirby Inland Marine and Professor Emeritus William Sembler, ’52 at the College’s annual Admiral’s Scholarship Dinner.  The event will be held on the college’s waterfront campus in Throgs Neck, New York.   ESPN Sailing Analyst and former America’s Cup sailor…
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Maine Maritime Academy Begins Search for Next President

Maine Maritime Academy is an 800 student, public, fully accredited four-year College located on Penobscot Bay in the small coastal village of Castine, Maine. MMA is a nationally ranked college of engineering, transportation, management, ocean sciences and international business and is one of six state-supported maritime colleges in the United States. The Board invites nominations and expressions of interest for…
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