17 Feb

Port of Los Angeles top executive to speak at Maine Maritime Academy commencement

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CASTINE, Maine – Maine Maritime Academy President Leonard Tyler has announced that Dr. Geraldine Knatz, executive director of the Port of Los Angeles <http://portoflosangeles.org/> , Calif., will address the graduating class at the college’s 66th Commencement on Saturday, May 2, 2009, at 11 a.m., in Alexander Fieldhouse. Knatz will receive an honorary doctorate from the college.         “We are pleased…
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04 Feb

News from The Nautical Institute

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The Nautical Institute has today (Wednesday) launched guidance to the industry on the transition from navigating with paper charts to navigating with ECDIS to help navigating officers meet the challenges of the change. The timely publication From Paper Charts to EDIS – A Practical Voyage Plan, by Captain Harry Gale FNI, technical manager at The Nautical Institute was presented at…
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02 Feb

Maine Maritime Academy schooner Bowdoin featured in Canadian celebration of arctic exploration

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CASTINE, Maine, USA -- Maine Maritime Academy’s  (MMA) schooner Bowdoin will sail to Newfoundland and Labrador this summer as a traveling ambassador for Celebrating Bartlett 2009, an upcoming Canadian recognition of Arctic exploration. Celebrating Bartlett 2009 will mark the 100th anniversary of Admiral Robert Peary’s expedition to the top of the world in his renowned North Pole trek of 1909,…
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14 Jan

Crowley Expands Scholarship Program at  Williams-Mystic to $20,000 a Year

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(JACKSONVILLE, Fla.: Jan. 13, 2009) Crowley Maritime Corporation will enhance its scholarship grants with the Maritime Studies Program of Williams College and Mystic Seaport beginning in the fall. The company has pledged to increase its donation from $10,000 to $20,000 a year for deserving and need-based students in the program.   The increase in funding will allow more students -…
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12 Jan

California Maritime lists 2009 continuing ed courses online

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(Vallejo, CA - January 09, 2009)•The California Maritime Academy's Extended Learning Department has posted its catalog of continuing education programs for 2009 on-line at www.maritime-education.com/courses.html Visitors to the site can download the full catalog and/or click on individual course offerings for details on course content, costs, and locations and times of delivery. Many of the courses are offered on the…
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19 Dec

Massachusetts Maritime Academy signs contract with SpecTec for software partnership

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Massachusetts Maritime Academy (MMA)and SpecTec have entered into a Cooperation Agreement in which SpecTec has agreed to donate AMOS licenses for MMA’s Teaching & Training courses. This is the first license donation partnership with a Maritime Academy in the US for SpecTec. International partners include Dalian Maritime University, National Taiwan Ocean University and Italian Maritime Academy to name a few.…
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19 Dec

The Seamen’s Church Institute’s River Bell Awards: Cause for Celebration

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Paducah, KY. December 12, 2008. Not only did the 9th Annual River Bell Awards Luncheon at the Seamen’s Church Institute (SCI) Center in Paducah, KY raise nearly $150,000 to support Ministry on the River, SCI’s program of pastoral care to inland river mariners, but also three very important announcements were made about the future of SCI and the inland river…
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05 Nov

Mid-Atlantic Maritime announces new full vessel management simulation capability

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Mid-Atlantic Maritime Academy in Virginia Beach, VA has announced the installation of a Transas ERS4000 Engine Room Simulator.  The simulator provides state of the art training in marine engineering. It is a complete training system that includes classroom demonstrations and scenario playback, stand-alone and team watch-standing operation of the engineering plant in a computer lab setting, as well as watch-standing…
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03 Nov

Houston Luncheon Raises $77K for Maritime Training

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HOUSTON, TX. October 30, 2008. Resembling barges held together with rigging, members of the commercial community of the Port of Houston, America's second largest Port in terms of total tonnage, met last week in support of the Seamen's Church Institute (SCI). At the Fourth Annual Maritime Training Benefit Luncheon, the area's leading maritime transportation companies assembled for a fundraiser at…
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13 Oct

Joint Training of Surveyors for Arctic LNG Carriers Initiated by ABS and RS

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(Houston -- St. Petersburg)  ABS and the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) have initiated an extensive joint training program covering survey of Arctic LNG carriers for a team of surveyors drawn from both societies. Classroom instruction in early October at the RS training facilities in St Petersburg, Russia, is to be followed by a prolonged period of field training…
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