Course description
The course is designed for familiarising as well as assessing the competency of Deck Officers who are to be designated to a large vessel in forthcoming tenures as it will equip them with the skills and knowledge to handle large vessels in various conditions.
Facility
The Institute shall provide an adequately equipped classroom with suitable audio-visual aids and a full mission ship handling simulator with a large vessel incorporated in various exercises. Classrooms have ample seating arrangements to allow for liberal interaction between and amongst faculty and candidates.
Objective
To equip officers with the knowledge and skills specific to handling large ships, and to assess a candidate’s competency with respect to handling large ships.
Serving Masters, newly joining Masters, Chief Officers due for promotion, and Junior Officers of container fleet who are to be assigned to a large vessel in forthcoming tenures
The ECDIS support cell is a dedicated team within FMTI that provides technical assistance to our bridge teams who may have issues related to ECDIS, ENCs or similar navigational processes. It also provides guidance to crew for PSC and vetting inspections and oversees the 'management of change' for dual ECDIS vessels or during new ECDIS installation onboard.
To teams onshore, it provides support in drafting policies, analysis of vetting findings and incident investigation.
From time to time, the ECDIS support cell provides insights to key policymakers and industry stakeholders from UKHO, IHO and INTERTANKO to ECDIS manufacturers and ENC suppliers.
In parallel, the team provides bespoke training to class surveyors and auditors and has been a recipient of the Navigational Safety Award at the First World ECDIS Day.