Wärtsilä Voyage has actually provided as well as mounted tailored LNGPac bunkering as well as fluid freight taking care of simulators at the Mumbai training centre of Hong Kong- based Anglo-Eastern Univan Group

This is a brand-new item for the aquatic market, showing the raising fostering by fleet proprietors of LNG gas, as well as the substantial demand to make sure that teams are adequately learnt running LNG-fuelled vessels. The order was put in June 2020 as well as the task was finished in October.

This Wärtsilä Voyage simulator remedy is based upon the firm’s well-proven gas shutoff system as well as LNGPac gas storage space, supply as well as control system modern technologies, as well as consists of all supporting systems required about the LNG gas supply. The system has actually been customized to fulfill the particular demands of Anglo-Eastern It abides by the global Standards of Training Certification as well as Watchkeeping (STCW) for training seafarers on gas-fuelled ships, in accordance with the criteria required by the IGF Code.

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“Having worked with Wärtsilä Voyage for some 25 years, we know and trust their technology completely. We were the first private ship management company to install Wärtsilä’s ship handling simulators, and we are again pioneering comprehensive simulation training in LNG bunkering and cargo handling operations. We consider this to be an extremely important step in ensuring the safe and efficient running of our LNG-fuelled vessels,” commentedCapt Pradeep Chawla, Managing Director of QHSE as well as Training at Anglo-Eastern

“Crew training has to keep pace with the marine industry’s transition to new and cleaner fuels. LNG is already well established as a marine fuel, so our development of this simulation solution meets the industry’s need in a timely fashion. It covers the entire LNG fuel system from bunkering to operating LNG dual-fuel engines, and prepares ship crews to handle all related systems safely and correctly,” stated Ashok Sharma, Sales, Wärtsilä Voyage Hong Kong.

The whole Wärtsilä extent consists of a complete goal fluid freight taking care of simulator that reproduces an actual ship system, an LNG bunkering as well as fuel gas supply simulator as well as a complete goal engine area simulator.

Over the years, Wärtsilä Voyage has actually provided Anglo-Eastern with a wide series of devices as well as services, consisting of greater than 100 Wärtsilä Electronic Chart Display as well as Information Systems (ECDIS) mounted aboard ships. For the Mumbai training centre, Wärtsilä has actually provided ECDIS, ship handling as well as bridge simulators, as well as both ship handling as well as engine simulators for Anglo-Eastern’s Odessa training centre. In 2019, Wärtsilä Voyage got an order to supply its Fleet Operation Solution (FOS) for greater than 600 ships handled by Anglo-Eastern, standing for the largest-ever maritime software application bargain.

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