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TRAINING & EDUCATION: MARITIME SIMULATION

Photo: Carnival

The Carnival Way

Just outside of Amsterdam, Carnival is set to open the Arison Maritime Center, an ode to its founders and home of the CSMART Academy

BY GREG TRAUTHWEIN

Next month Carnival Corporation will “cut the ribbon” and of? cially open its new CSMART Academy, the centerpiece of seven-acre Arison Maritime Center located outside Amsterdam, which by name honors longtime board chairman

Micky Arison and his father Ted, founder of the company. hile it is dif? cult to pin- which was founded n 1972 with just one in July 2016, the company expects to Carnival Corporation, the company said, point with great accuracy -secondhand ship and just enough fuel to hire up to another 25 employees. space pending, the facility may be avail- an exact number which make a one-way trip from Miami to San At nearly 110,000 square feet, the cen- able for other cruise companies to train,

Wquanti? es the growth in Juan, and has since grown to be the dom- ter is more than double the size of the provided they provide their own instruc- simulation in the maritime sector, with inate cruise company with 10 brands, current facility, anticipated to train more tors, who must ? rst be trained and certi- the scheduled July 14, 2016, opening of 101 ships with 225,000 lower berths in than 6,500 deck and engineering of? cers ? ed by CSMART Academy instructors.

Carnival Corporation’s CSMART Acad- operation, and 15 new ships scheduled every year. The new ? ve-story CSMART emy just outside of Amsterdam in the for delivery by 2020 – the Arison Mari- Academy at the Arison Maritime Center Simulation: The Machinery town of Almere should provide adequate time Center is large, well-appointed and will feature a full complement of state- While the seven acre Arison Maritime fodder: An investment of $85 million impressive. The entire facility comes in of-the-art simulators from Transas; four Center is diverse, the heart and soul for the entire Arison Maritime Center, with a price tag of about $85 million, full-mission bridge simulators and four of the facility arguably is the Transas which includes a hotel, comes after the and the CSMART Academy at the Ari- full-mission engine room simulators. Bridge and Engine simulators. Predict- company outgrew its current CSMART son Maritime Center will have approxi- It will also include 24 part-task engine ably the set up of the bridge and bridge

Academy, which was opened in the same mately 40 permanent instructors and 24 simulators, eight debrie? ng rooms and wings mirror the new Carnival Corpora- city only seven years ago. line instructors who divide their time be- eight part-task bridge simulators. It will tion bridge, ? rst used on the new Kon- tween the CSMART Academy and their also include an advanced medical center ingsdam from the company’s Holland

By the Numbers work onboard, according to Capt. Hans and an 11-story, 176-room hotel for Car- America Line brand. The full mission

As one might expect from the world’s Hederström, FNI, Managing Director, nival Corporation trainees. While the fa- engine room simulators are modeled leading cruise company – a company CSMART. When the new facility opens cility is designed primarily for the use of around the following three classes of 30 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • JUNE 2016

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