Port of Cape Town to Open Training Center in September
young people can participate meaningfully in the economic development of the country.”Marine courses on offer at the new center will include the accredited Dock Master Training Program, Ship and Boat Building courses, a Ship Maintenance program and internationally accredited Lighthouse and Navigational Systems programs.The Maritime Training Center will leverage off existing partnerships with institutions such as the Transnet Maritime School of Excellence (MSoE), False Bay College, Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) and Northlink College.Key training programs will include General Purpose
Traditional Training to Counter the Over-reliance on Technology
in jeopardy. “We should embrace new technologies, but not at the expense of undermining, and possibly even foregoing, traditional training. These must be used together, to help cover every eventuality and to prevent casualties from occurring. For example, a watch keeper relying on navigational systems to guide the vessel is potentially putting the ship at risk if the watch keeper does not actively engage with their duties in the traditional way – with their eyes and ears. Similarly this is the case with machinery monitoring, where the increasing demand on modern machinery is leaving
