Kongsberg Maritime opens new training centre in Aberdeen

Kongsberg Maritime opened its new 5,000ft² training and marine simulation centre in Westhill, Aberdeen in August this year. This specialist centre, said to be the largest of its type in the UK, provides training across maritime sectors, including oil and gas, subsea, and marine and offshore construction. Demand for courses at the new centre has surpassed all expectations, with many already fully subscribed and additional ones for Kongsberg Maritime's K-Pos dynamic positioning systems already scheduled.

Iain Fullerton, training and marine simulation business manager at Kongsberg Maritime Ltd, said: “The advance bookings we have secured since moving to the new facility signify an unprecedented uptake of our training courses. We are preparing to train over 250 more students before the end of the year, and we expect to see this figure increase in coming years as we expand our training operations further still.”

The increased capacity of the new centre will give Kongsberg Maritime the scope to instruct many more trainees simultaneously, trebling the number of course participants when compared with the previous facility. The centre makes extensive use of Kongsberg Maritime's simulation systems and training consoles to provide realistic scenarios, which would otherwise be difficult to replicate. Courses will be led by instructors with extensive, direct experience of Kongsberg systems.

The new centre will provide specialist training, ranging from familiarisation to advanced courses on dynamic positioning and acoustic positioning. Training is also available on multi-beam, marine automation, process automation and safety systems. OSJ