First Transas ECDIS procurement by Singapore Maritime Academy

Transas Marine Pacific announces the recent ECDIS procurement by the Singapore Maritime Academy (SMA), Singapore Polytechnic. The equipment was supplied to the Academy’s newly developed Centre for Advance Navigation, which includes a marine simulation function.
The Centre now accommodates the latest Transas Navi-Sailor Electronic Chart and Display Information System (ECDIS), as well as Navi-Trainer ship handling simulator. The system is capable of running an operational ECDIS along with providing the various functions of a desktop ship handling simulator. Moreover, it allows the user to become familiar with the operation and use of some of the most common shipboard electronic navigational aids. The ECDIS simulator at the SMA is the largest in Asia with ten workstations and one instructor bridge. This state-of-the-art equipment meets specifications drawn up according to SMA’s expertise and meets the students’ training needs as well as those of the shipping industry as a whole.
Through this new Transas installation the SMA is now able to conduct the complete range of courses for students going for Certificates of Competency, as well as for those participants from the shipping industry who are required to use the Radar, ARPA, ENS or ECDIS in their day-to-day job. Thus the range of courses available at the new Centre includes: IMO Model Course 1.07, Radar navigation, Radar Plotting and Use of ARPA, and IMO Model Course 1.27, The Operational Use of ECDIS and Electronic Navigation Systems (ENS).