Netherland Maritime Academy Gets VSTEP Simulators

The Maritime Academy Holland has chosen VSTEP simulator for their new Inland Navigation Center in Harlingen to provide simulation training.

The VSTEP announced on Tuesday that the deal includes the purchase of a Full Mission Inland Navigation Simulator and three Inland console trainers.

The simulator center will be the first to provide simulator training in full accordance with the requirements for Inland simulators by the Central Commission for the Navigation on the Rhine (CCNR).

Last month, Maritieme Academie Harlingen, ROC Nova College as partners within the academy and VSTEP signed an innovation partnership for delivery and installation of a NAUTIS Full Mission Bridge Inland Navigation Simulator at the center.

The delivery and installation also includes an Instructor Station and three additional Trainee Stations.

Arjen Mintjes, director of the Maritieme Academie Harlingen said, “The NAUTIS simulators are more efficient and require less hardware than simulator solutions of competitors.”

Implementation, delivery and installation of the simulator will take place in Q4 2015 in different phases. Following delivery, VSTEP will provide instructor training for the inland navigation simulator to academy simulator instructors.

The Maritieme Academie Holland is a training academy and maritime training institute in the Netherlands. The academy’s educational curriculum includes training and education courses for professional fishermen, inland shipping personnel and seafarers.

The addition of this VSTEP NAUTIS Inland Navigation Simulator to the center means students will be able to practice their skills efficiently and in a safe virtual environment.