Stable crewing can improve safety, well-being and financial outcomes, according to a new report led by researchers from a British university.

The UK’s Southampton Solent University Governors Alison Colley and Dr Joan Stopp, officially named the latest vessel to join the country’s largest fleet of scale manned models at the University’s world-renowned Ship Handling Centre.

The UK’s largest and most sophisticated maritime simulation centre will open next month to offer specialist training opportunities with innovative technology including a variety of simulators and a ‘virtual shipyard’.

Solent University will open what it claims to be the UK’s largest and most sophisticated maritime simulation centre on its main campus in Southampton.

Finland- headquartered global technology group Wärtsilä has been selected to provide a full scope of marine simulators for a new training facility at UK Solent University’s Warsash School of Maritime Science and Engineering.

Rolls-Royce has completed the £1.3 million MAXCMAS (MAchine eXecutable Collision regulations for Marine Autonomous Systems) research project, demonstrating, it claims, that the operation of autonomous vessels can meet, if not exceed, current collision avoidance (COLREG) rules.

Education, training, consultancy and research provider, Warsash Maritime Academy (WMA), part of Southampton Solent University, will be at Seawork 2014 with its new learning app.

Warsash Maritime Academy (WMA), part of Southampton Solent University in the UK, has provided first class education, training, consultancy and research services to the international shipping, commercial yacht, offshore oil and gas, and renewables industries for nearly 70 years.

Warsash Maritime Academy (WMA), part of Southampton Solent University, expands its offering as a maritime training provider for the offshore oil and gas and renewables industries by offering an OPITO approved escape chute training (ECT) course.

One of the UK’s leading maritime trainers, Warsash Maritime Academy (WMA), has designed a new scaled container ship model to extend its training capability for seafaring pilots, masters and ships officers.

The UK’s only manned model ship handling training centre has moved home.