Furuno training for China

Companies in the shipping industry are now focused on crew competency and skills. Furuno’s training is type specific and ensures that navigators can safely and efficiently operate Furuno’s ECDIS onboard the vessels to which they are assigned.

Rick Chen, vice general manager, Furuno Shanghai, said: “Training and crew competences are important to us. China is one of the very important ship building nations, and as such we believe that it is important to be able to provide our high quality training to the Chinese crews. At the same time we can offer overseas ship owners building vessels in China to have the crew trained inside China on their way to go onboard the new buildings.”

Furuno wants to provide high training standards to ensure the skills and competences of the crew match the requirements for training under Furuno’s NavSkills framework. Ship operators will find that with providing their crew with Furuno’s training, their vessels will operate more efficiently.