Tsakos Group is to add new ship-handling and Dynamic Positioning simulators from Kongsberg Maritime at its training centre, the Maria Tsakos TCM Academy in Athens, Greece.

The Center for Marine Engineer Officers and Chief Engineers in Buenos Aires, Argentina, has taken delivery of a new ERS 5000 TechSim engine room simulator, supplied by Transas.

A new simulation complex for tanker personnel training built by Transas has been opened by IMO Secretary General Koji Sekimizu at the Makarov Training Centre, part of the Admiral Makarov State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping.

The Maritieme Academie Holland is to install VSTEP simulators at its new Inland Navigation Center in Harlingen.

The Norwegian Shipowners’ Association (NSA) has chosen Kongsberg Maritime to upgrade the simulation facilities at the Norwegian Training Center – Manila (NTC-M), in a deal signed at Nor-Shipping 2015 in Norway.

Kongsberg Maritime is supplying the National Defence University of Malaysia with its K-Sim Engine simulation platform, designed for training personnel in a range of engine room operations.

Transas has signed a multi-million euro deal with Carnival Corporation to provide simulators for the cruise operator’s new Centre for Simulator and Maritime Training (CSMART) facility in the Netherlands.

Kongsberg Maritime has been selected by Fideicomiso de Formación y Capacitación para el Personal de la Marina Mercante Nacional (FIDENA) in Mexico to provide a number of offshore and dynamic positioning (DP) simulators.

VSTEP reports that it will deliver and install a NAUTIS DNV Class A Full Mission Bridge Simulator at the Maritime Academy of Cirebon in Indonesia.

The Avante Escuela de la Marina Mercante in Colombia is adding a Full Mission Bridge simulator to complement its existing VSTEP desktop trainer classroom, which was installed last year.