10,000th ECDIS certificate
This June Furuno’s NavSkills network of training centres issued the ten thousandth ECDIS type specific training certificate. The certificate was issued to a Russian navigator trained at the Odessa Maritime Training Center, which joined the Furuno NavSkills training partnership in 2013.
The high number of trainees having received the certificates reflects the strong efforts made by Furuno’s partners in training in Asia, Europe and Middle East. Furuno is still continuing to extend the network of training centres and have recently added Pivot Maritime Training Center in Australia and Thesi Training Center in Italy as maritimejournal.com reported in June.
Director, Mr. Yutaka Wada said; “Furuno has been working hard to accommodate the great need for both generic and type specific ECDIS training and it is with great pleasure that we have passed no 10,000 certificate, since type specific ECDIS training was introduced to the market in 2011.”
By Jake Frith
