Wärtsilä to Deliver the First Cloud Simulation Service in Africa
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Wärtsilä Voyage is to equip the Technical University of Mombasa (TUM) with Cloud Simulation services, making TUM the first African university to adopt cloud-based maritime training services. The contract was signed in November 2021 and the services will be implemented from January 2022 onwards.
The Maritime Training Academy at TUM is a leading maritime education university in East Africa and this modern training technology will greatly help the Kenyan and other African seafarers to be trained remotely on STCW Training (Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers) as well as on other value-added training courses using digital learning platforms. The SaaS cloud simulation services will be available at TUM and will come with all the benefits inherent to cloud-based training. The sessions will always have up-to-date databases, content (exercises and scenarios) will be tailored, and training will be accessible on-demand from anywhere and with a wide range of devices.
Cloud Simulators are complementary to on-premises simulators and ensure top-notch remote training even for off-campus seafarers located in far-flung parts of Africa, or for that matter, anywhere in the world.
“The global pandemic highlighted the importance of having strong remote training facilities, and TUM is proud to be the first African University to deliver on that front. Wärtsilä Voyage was the perfect partner to realise our strategy of future-ready simulator training,” said Prof Laila Abubakar, The Vice Chancellor, Technical University of Mombasa.
As future tech becomes more sophisticated and adoption to green catches pace, regular training with digital learning tools is bound to become the norm. The new DNV Class D Certification standard introduced in July this year for cloud training further made the case for the value created by remote simulation and learning — representing a positive step in the ongoing transition towards blended learning within the maritime educational industry.
“Wärtsilä Voyage’s NTPRO simulator was the first Interactive ‘instructor-led’ cloud training solution to gain the new DNV Class D Certification, officially verifying that Wärtsilä online simulation meets or exceeds the already established, and globally recognised requirements for seafarer certification,” said Mather Al-Ali, Head of Sales, Middle East, Africa & India (MEAI) at Wärtsilä Voyage.
