Amsterdam Maritime Training Centre opens

MTC Amsterdam makes intelligent use of an old shipyard in the heart of the city. It boasts a 16m indoor wind turbine, a sea survival and lifeboat training pool, two helicopter underwater-escape training (HUET) modules in a separate pool and a virtual-reality room for team training.

Nicole van Ham, MTC International, said, “We believe that the combination of high-tech facilities and new ways of working provides many benefits. For example, because the centre is designed for small groups working in parallel, we can offer flexible start times that fit with different travel arrangements.”

“We are all about flexibility and in the future we’ll offer much of our theoretical training and assessment through an e-learning portal. This will enable people to learn at a time that suits them and at their own pace.”

As well as leading-edge facilities, MTC Amsterdam has innovative practices designed to increase training efficiency. For example, assessing the competencies of each participant before a course enables their training to be focused on the skills and knowledge they lack. In this way, the training becomes more interactive and reduces the training time for experienced workers.

MTC Amsterdam serves the offshore oil and gas, offshore renewable energy, maritime and various onshore industries, and will provide courses accredited by OPITO, NOGEPA, STCW and GWO.

This is the third centre to become accredited with the support of MTC International after MAAP in the Philippines and Jaheziya in Abu Dhabi.