Course description
This course is designed to train officers on tanker vetting inspection. It delves deep into the Vessel Inspection Questionnaire (VIQ ) and the checks crew is required to undertake before an inspection.
Facility
The course is conducted in spacious classroom with modern teaching aids to facilitate comfortable learning.
Objective
To teach trainees to identify all the deficiencies onboard and report the same to the Company
All Officers and Engineers joining tanker vessels (excluding Deck Cadets)
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.