This week saw the Human Element, Training and Watchkeeping (HTW12) meeting at the IMO Headquarters in London. The primary focus concerning wind propulsion was the inclusion of wind propulsion into the terms of reference for the development of interim guidelines for the training of seafarers. At the meeting, we supported the submission HTW 12-7-3 Proposal for consideration of the terms of reference of the Working Group on the Development of Training Provisions for Seafarers on Ships
Using Alternative Fuels and New Technologies submitted by Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands (Kingdom of the), Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the European Commission
Our Secretary General, Gavin Allwright was also asked to present about current wind propulsion training developments at a side event on Tuesday, highlighting the growing development of training materials from the French Maritime Academy ENSM, the CrewWind developed by the French wind propulsion cluster, Association Windship as part of the Digi4mere project which is a familiarisation module available online from the IMO Future Fuels and Technologies webpage, simulators available at Warsash Maritime Academy, UK, the WAPS-IT training program being developed in Norway, and led by SINTEF and the Enkhuisen Maritime Academy in the Netherlands, providing training on traditional primary wind vessels along with a wind-assist technology familiarisation course.
