Posted: November 9, 2011
We’d like to bring all our previous delegates attention to the maritime jobs website rigzone.com. Rigzone Career Center is the number one source of employment in the petroleum industry. Delegates can join Rigzone’s 100% free database by uploading their CV. The database will give your CV a large audience of Oil and Gas companies plus all of Rigzone’s affiliate sites.
Rigzone has an ever expanding audience and their member base spans the upstream oil and gas industry from major corporate executives to influential independents.
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Rigzone has an ever expanding audience and their member base spans the upstream oil and gas industry from major corporate executives to influential independents.
People who use the site include:
- Exploration and production companies
- Drilling rig owners and contractors
- Parts and equipment manufacturers, distributors, and suppliers
- Offshore support services (tugs, tenders, caterers, parts suppliers, etc.)
- Oil & gas industry executives from large multi-nationals to smaller independents
- Investors and analysts involved in the oil and gas industry
- Oil & gas industry human resources directors and departments
- Oil & gas industry workers and job seekers of all skill levels and areas of expertise
A Rigzone membership enters you into one of the oil and gas industry’s pre-eminent groups, a group composed of the industry’s leading players. Become a member – click here
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Posted: October 28, 2011
It gives us great joy to announce that the open day this week broke all our previous records. We had in excess of 750 registered visitors come to the college throughout the day.
In addition, we had 40-50 representatives from companies/organisations and 16 stands in the sports hall.
The NMCI courses on display were the B.Sc Nautical Science, B.Eng in Marine & Plant Engineering, B.Eng. Marine Electotechnology and a Higher Certificate in Nautical Studies.
Visitors arrived from: Culldaff, Moville and Carndonagh, Co Donegal, Carna and An Cheatru Rua, Co na Gaillimhe, Dublin, Louth, Waterford, Tipperary, Limerick, Clare, Cork City, North Cork, West Cork, Kerry and many other areas.
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Posted: October 21, 2011
NMCI are proud to announce that their site has been nominated for a prestigious Web Award.
The commercial division of the National Maritime College of Ireland was nominated in the ‘Best Student Web or Social Media Project’ category at the Irish Web Awards which takes place in Dublin on October 22.
The site which includes details for our academic courses, the Irish Naval Service activates, professional maritime short courses, offshore courses and general information on the NMCI.
The nomination reflects the strong social media presence the commercial division now possesses in the form of YouTube, Vimeo Twitter, LinkedIn and a blog.
The National Maritime College of Ireland (NMCI) is the first third level college in the country to be built under the Government’s Public-Private Partnership scheme. A Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is a partnership between the public and private sector for the purpose of delivering a project or service traditionally provided by the public sector. NMCI specialise in offshore training and offshore courses.
The award show will be MC’d by RTE 2 DJ Rick O’Shea and includes a performance by Cork’s finest comedian Colm O’Regan.
Best of luck to all the other finalists!
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Posted: October 19, 2011
GAC Training and Service Solutions (GTSS) launches high value bunker course to increase understanding and improve efficiencies
GAC Training and Service Solutions (GTSS), one of the world’s leading training providers for seafarers and shore-based shipping personnel, today announced the launch of its inaugural “Complete Guide to Bunkering” course, to be held from 22 to 24 November at the $100 million National Maritime Training College of Ireland in Cork.
Led by leading bunker market experts Robin Meech and Chris Fisher, this new course is designed to reflect the latest trends facing the bunker suppliers, traders and brokers, as well as bunker fuel purchasers, class societies, surveyors and other bunkering stakeholders. The course reflects the new importance of bunker fuel as the major cost for the shipping industry – with fuel costs having risen 600% over the past 10 years and representing over 70% of most shipping companies’ costs.
The new course has been designed by bunker industry expert Meech, managing director of Marine and Energy Consulting and co-author of “Outlook for Bunker Fuel Oil and Heavy Fuel Oil to 2030” published in July 2011. Focusing heavily on delivering value for money, the course content encompasses the full breadth of the bunker industry, including: history and background, the latest regulations (SOx, NOx and Greenhouse Gases), abatement and energy efficiency, demand and pricing, LNG (LNG training)and other alternative fuels, the latest fuels standards (ISO 8217:2010), sampling and surveys, metering, price risk management and an introduction to the legal framework and contracts.
Robin Meech explained:
“The modern bunker market is a constantly changing operating environment – increasing prices, environmental regulation, record prices, poor credit, growing demand for metering, the potential of LNG powered vessels; all of which directly influences the decisions taken by those operating across the full spectrum of the bunker supply chain. This course reflects the bunker market as it is today and GTSS should be commended for looking at the bunker industry and allowing it to use its state-of-the-art training facilities.
“Given the sheer scale of relative cost for bunker fuel in the modern shipping market, it is not only the buyer and seller of bunkers that play a crucial role in maximising profitability. Expanding the depth of people’s knowledge right across the value chain, including board members, can help provide them with a better understanding of the bigger picture, as well as the consequences of their actions, enabling them to make more informed decisions with confidence. Ultimately this improves the overall efficiency of end-to-end operations and allows organisations to benefit from the associated commercial savings.”
The course has been created paying close attention to the current trends and likely future of the bunker market. It combines elements of strategic long-term thinking with technical and regulatory requirements, as well as the day-to-day realities of bunker sales, procurement and delivery.
Conor Mowlds, Director, GTSS said:
“With bunker prices at an all time high the bunker purchaser has a more influential role than ever before. The viability of many a company is resting on the successful purchase of bunkers at the right price, and when done effectively this can give an organisation a competitive edge. In today’s operating environment, increased understanding can indeed provide competitive advantage, which is why GTSS has designed the best value for money course in the industry.”
The first GTSS ‘Complete Guide to Bunkering’ course will run from 22-24 November at the National Maritime College of Ireland in Cork – a 45 minute plane journey from London’s Heathrow, and serviced by flights from Geneva, Lisbon, Amsterdam and other international destinations. The course costs Euro 1,645 per person and includes three nights accommodation, breakfast, lunch and daily refreshments, a welcome drinks reception and a networking meal on the final evening. Other evening activities can be arranged for attendees. An early-bird rate of Euro 1,495 is available until 28th October. For more information please visit www.nmci.ie/gtssbunkercourse
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Posted: October 18, 2011
“Training too often seen as a ‘soft’ cost.’ The lastest article from Jeffrey Blum highlights the importance of training. Offshore training in particular is something we focus on here at the NMCI.
“The struggling dry bulk sector suffers from a basic lack of professional expertise that can generate serious problems. The cause and solution are straightforward, argues Jeffrey Blum.
Perhaps the most striking difference between the dry bulk sector today and a decade ago is the increasing dominance of the market by large companies.
In itself, this is not a problem but the industry has been navigating tough times for a number of years and, as a result, training is often high on the list of immediate cost cutting opportunities. This is short sighted.
The size of a company does not necessarily dictate a level of professionalism, expertise or commitment to quality training within it. Because of their size and scale, too many believe they can rely upon internal expertise to train others – an approach that is more often than not ineffective.To avoid the mistakes of one generation being passed down to the next, these organisations need more thorough and standardised training than current internal processes provide. The sector is already struggling with self professed experts disseminating their ‘knowledge’ and, by doing so, simply extending their own operational ineffeciencies.
The proof of these problems lands on arbitrators’ desks every day. Of the disputes I come across, too many stem from a basic lack of knowledge and understanding.
Commonly these disputes are about demurrage calculations, but the subject of the dispute is secondary to its underlying cause: a lack of training in how to carry out these processes appropriately. read more…
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