System integrator RH Marine and developer of maritime training solutions VSTEP Simulation have signed a cooperation agreement, enabling VSTEP to supply RH Marine’s ECDIS chart and navigation system with its bridge simulators for schools, training institutes and fleet owners.

ROC Friese Poort has opened an Inland Simulator Centre in Urk, the Netherlands, for inland navigation training in the region.

Unitra Maritime Manila Inc. (UMMI) in the Philippines is to install a VSTEP simulator classroom, to be delivered by local VSTEP partner Poseidon Asia.

Independence Seaport Museum in the United States has acquired two NAUTIS Museum Simulators, offering their visitors the chance to experience historical events on the Delaware river and see how the waterway developed into a highway for trade and commerce.

HELMEPA, the non-profit marine environment protection association situated in Athens, Greece, has installed a simulator and instructor station at its premises for training of its fleet members.

A new simulator centre for maritime training at the port of Burgas in Bulgaria has been opened, by the City of Burgas and its association of environmental organisations.

The Maritime Training School ROC Kop van Noord-Holland is set to install a simulator centre from VSTEP at its Nautical College in Den Helder in the Netherlands.

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

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.