Wärtsilä Tug, Mooring and Inland Operations

The Tug Operator Trainer, based on the NTPRO 5000 navigational simulator, provides users with excellent tools for both ship assistant training tasks and professional training in tug and barge operations, including simulation training in:

• mooring operations (ship-to-ship and ship-to-pier);
• anchoring operations;
• tug operations (automatic and manual mode).

Tugs can be used as own ships handled by the bridge team or as target ships handled by the instructor manually or in semi-automatic mode.
Wärtsilä , in cooperation with SeaWays Consultants, has developed the advanced ASD tug simulator, capable of training personnel for a range of functions, from basic tug handling manoeuvres for beginners to advanced towing methods, such as in-direct towing, for tug masters. Designed by tug masters and for tug masters, it provides high fidelity and cost-effective training in complex and risky operations.

NTPRO 5000 has been designed in full compliance with the following standards:

• International Convention of Training, Certification and Watch keeping for Seafarers (STCW 2010);
• IMO model courses;
• International SOLAS Conventions;
• Regulations concerning special training: fishing operations, VTS operator training, etc.;
• The simulator is approved by DNV (with class notation INTEGRATED SIMULATOR SYSTEM, NAUT AW (SIM), DYNPOS – AUT (SIM), HSC, TUG, ICE to the Class A Standard for Certification of Maritime Simulators No. 2.14).