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The STC Group, the largest maritime training institution in Holland, has opened the doors to its new 2,300 sq. m. simulator facility in Rotterdam.
The new simulator center is built on an extensive, state-of-the-art package of simulation technology and services from, amongst others, Kongsberg
Maritime.
STC, which has more than 3,500 day students in
Rotterdam and offers more than 2,000 course mod- ules awarded the contract to provide simulators and support to Kongsberg Maritime in February 2005. Installation was completed in August, with a site acceptance test signed on September 9, 2005. "We required our new simulation center to provide the most advanced transport, port, dredging and maritime training possible. After careful evalua- tion of the market and based on an already positive relationship, we chose Kongsberg Maritime to deliver the upgrade and extension of our simula- tors. We have modified and extended our Engine
Room simulators as well as our Inland Waterways simulators, our Ships Bridge simulators and our
Cargo Handling simulators," says Jan S. Bakker from STC. "The new and upgraded simulators will enable our students to gain even more out of their training, and ultimately help to make more compe- tent, skilled and safety conscious officers and engineers, which is a benefit to the whole maritime and transport industry." "Our simulator center in Rotterdam is presently one of the largest, maybe even the most compre- hensive, civil simulator centers in the world. We presently operate simulators for Cargo Handling,
Dredging, Container Crane, Off-Shore Platform
Crane, Straddle Carrier, Logistics and Transport
Chain, Engine Room (including the latest diesel electric engines), Inland Waterways Vessels, Ships
Bridge, GMDSS, Petrochemical Refinery,
Offshore Oil and Gas production, Electrical Power plant, Fishery and GMDSS (Global Maritime
Distress and Safety) System). Due to the high demand for training in our center, it is operated on a 24/7 basis," said Bakker. Kongsberg delivered a high-end operational engine room simulator based on a very large crude carrier with a slow speed turbo charged diesel engine and a fixed propeller.
The engine room simulator is based on the latest generation of Kongsberg Maritime's Neptune sim- ulation architecture and boasts the new BigView interactive mimic screen. The delivery also includ- ed an upgrade and renewal of the existing engine room simulator, 30 engine room simulator desktop stations and 15 cargo simulator desktop stations
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Kongsberg Outfits New STC Group
Simulator Center
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