Wärtsilä and Wagenborg Shipping have agreed on a three-year training contract. The agreement covers the training of more than 830 of the shipping company’s crew members, and will be held at Wärtsilä Land & Sea Academy training centres.
The training programmes for Wagenborg Shipping will consist of four to fourteen day modules. The programme includes product specific instruction on diesel engines and propulsion systems, as well as customised training in electrical engineering, navigation, hydraulics and pneumatics. The training programme will be delivered through the Wärtsilä Land & Sea Academies in the Netherlands and Philippines.
Land & Sea Academy
The Land & Sea Academy organisation operates globally in ten locations, which are the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Italy, India, South Korea, Philippines, USA and Brazil. The Land & Sea Academy provides customised training programmes and technical product instruction. In all, some 10,000 people are trained annually at these facilities.
Guaranteed Standard of Tuition
Wagenborg Shipping employs more than a thousand seamen on its vessels. They come not only from the Netherlands and other parts of Europe, but from various parts of the world. Currently, the company has more than twenty nationalities represented, including some from China, and recently also Vietnam. The training programmes will, regardless of time or place, guarantee the same standard and level of tuition.
Wagenborg Shipping has more than 150 vessels of various types. The company’s selection of the Land & Sea Academy as its preferred training provider was based on the companies’ long-standing relationship and the high volume of Wärtsilä products on board its vessels.
