For those that accept the responsibility of saving lives at sea, #training is an essential part of the role.
Take a look at this video, showing @RNLI lifeboat crew during simulated storm conditions in our sea survival pool. #seasurvival#nmciservicespic.twitter.com/kkWZONb9e2
Lend Lease and NMCI Services are delighted to support St Aidan’s Community College in a fund raising drive for the World Scholar Athlete Games. The school has travelled to the US to compete at the game and we have gladly donated sports gear for their team.
25 students and 4 teachers from St. Aidan’s have travelled to the University of Connecticut and there will be over 2,500 students and their teachers from all corners of the globe taking part.
There is both an academic and sporting element to the games and the main themes for this year are Fair Play, Leadership, Ethics and Personal Social Responsibility.
We have no doubt that they will be exceptional representatives for our county and our country at this international event and we wish them the best of luck.
NMCI has a long standing relationship of assisting cork sports through the use of our facilities, in which a number of schools in the Cork area use.
Marketing Executive of GAC Training and Service Solutions (GTSS), Joanne Kelleher conducted a feature interview recently with the publication Tanker Operator. The Tanker Operator magazine is the only international publication dedicated to the tanker industry.
Featured in the article is GTSS’s week long Ship-to-Ship (STS) simulator course. The course covers a multitude of topics including safe manoeuvring using the ship’s engines and helm, the impact of natural forces, such as wind, current and interaction, the importance of approach planning, efficient management of bridge procedures and effective and safe bridge team management. read more…
To celebrate our nomination in the 2011 Bord Gais Energy Social Media Awards in the Best Blog of an Irish Business category, we have put together a slideshow of photos from some of our favourite posts of the year. read more…
SEFtec installed a custom military HUET (helicopter underwater escape trainer) at Fort Rucker Alabama. This unit replaced 2 METS dunkers at the site and has been used to train the US military ever since.
This video shows a news report by Patrick Claybon of News4, WTVY on May 11th 2009. read more…
LNG market expansion increases the pressure to perform
Like so many other shipping sectors, the dynamics of the global LNG industry saw significant changes in the last year. In the past, LNG has typically been transported between the same production and importation terminals for the life of the supply contract, averaging 20 years. However, increasing quantities of LNG are now being supplied into the spot market on short-term contracts – often securing premiums above the typical market price. The tragic situation in Japan is an example of how the LNG spot market is able to instantly respond to an unexpected demand, where a large percentage of the lost power generation is being made up with significant increased importation of LNG. read more…
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