VSTEP wins Dutch training centre order
VSTEP has received orders for three inland console trainers and a full mission inland navigation simulator from the Maritieme Academie Holland's new Inland Navigation Center in Harlingen, the company announced on 30 June.
The new centre will be the first to provide simulator training in accordance with the inland simulators requirements of the Central Commission for the Navigation on the Rhine.
Under the partnership between the academy, VSTEP and ROC Nova College, the company will deliver and install the NAUTIS full mission bridge inland navigation simulator, three trainee stations and an instruction station at the centre. The centre, located at the premises of the academy in Harlingen, is currently under construction.
The simulator will be delivered and installed in phases in the last quarter of 2015, following which VSTEP will provide instructor training.
Arjen Mintjes, director, Maritieme Academie Holland, said: 'The Maritieme Academie Holland, as one of the leading educational institutions in European inland and maritime navigation has always been a forerunner in terms of providing state of the art learning facilities for our students and clients such as Europe’s most advanced inland training vessels.
'We are proud to have VSTEP as our partner to introduce the very first full mission inland navigation simulator centre built entirely in accordance to the currently developed requirements for inland simulators by the Central Commission for the Navigation on the Rhine (CCNR). The Maritieme Academie Holland found the innovative technology and professional approach of VSTEP particularly convincing. The NAUTIS simulators are more efficient and require less hardware than simulator solutions of competitors.'
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