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IN THIS ISSUE – November 2022
- Making Waves: Seamen's Church Institute Attends Kongsberg Digital Conference in Norway
- Center for Maritime Advocacy Director Attends IMO Maritime Safety Committee Meeting
- An Update from the International Seafarers' Center
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The World Depends on Mariners.
Mariners Depend on SCI.
And SCI Depends on You.
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Making Waves: Seamen's Church Institute Attends Kongsberg Digital Conference in Norway
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With a commitment toward improved training and resources for mariners and our client companies, SCI’s Center for Maritime Education is updating its simulator systems to Kongsberg Digital’s “K-Sim.” The update and testing are already underway at our Paducah, KY facility and will be fully completed by January 2023 at our Houston, TX, facility.
In light of this, Jenny Butler (SCI Board Member & Chief People Officer at Ingram Marine), Jonathan Burson (SCI e-Learning Manager), The Rev. Mark Nestlehutt (SCI President & Executive Director), and Capt. Stephen Polk (SCI, CME Director) joined the international maritime training community in Horten, Norway, last week for the Kongsberg Digital Maritime Simulation User Conference to learn more about K-Sim’s potential. The conference offered recent product news and user discussions but also focused on marketing trends and the impact digital transformation is having on the industry.
“K-Sim is state of the art, and that’s a priority for us and our mission to mariners,” noted Capt. Polk. “It not only significantly improves our simulator training experience, but we will also likely see benefits for our e-Learning programming and our expanding feasibility study potential."
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Photo from the Kongsberg Digital Simulation User Conference in Horten, Norway, November 9–11, 2022. From left: Jenny Butler (SCI Board Member & Chief People Office at Ingram Marine), Jonathan Burson (SCI e-Learning Manager), The Rev. Mark Nestlehutt (SCI President & Executive Director), and Capt. Stephen Polk (SCI, CME Director) | |
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Center for Maritime Advocacy Director Attends IMO Maritime Safety Committee Meeting
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Center for Mariner Advocacy Director Phil Schifflin recently attended the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) Maritime Safety Committee Meeting (November 2 to 11) in London as a member of the International Christian Maritime Association’s (ICMA) delegation. ICMA is a coalition of seafarer welfare organizations that work collaboratively to best support mariners worldwide.
The Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) is responsible for a broad range of maritime safety issues, and not surprisingly, many of these issues are impacted by the human element. The safety-related issues addressed by the committee often impact the mariners that sail on vessels subject to IMO regulations. In attending these meetings, Phil attempts to ensure that mariner equity is taken into account as the committee does its work.
Among the most critical roles of the MSC—from the perspective of seafarer welfare organizations like SCI—is that they provide oversight to the IMO’s Human Element, Training, and Watchkeeping (HTW) sub-committee. As the name would indicate, HTW focuses exclusively on the "human side" of the maritime industry. The HTW sub-committee is assigned work by MSC and, once completed, returns it for MSC review and follow-up action. Accordingly, Phil attends MSC meetings to follow these issues.
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Photo from the IMO Maritime Safety Meeting (November 2 to11): Left—Sara Baade, Chief Executive Officer, Sailors' Society and current Chair of the ICMA Board; Right–Phillip Schifflin, Esq. Director, SCI's Center for Mariner Advocacy. | |
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DECEMBER 8, 2022 — 11:00 A.M.
Paducah-McCracken County Convention & Expo Center
Paducah, Kentucky
Congratulations to our award recipients:
River Bell Award
James C. Guidry
Executive Vice President of Vessel Operations
Kirby Corporation
River Legend Award
Frank Morton
Founder and Director
Turn Services, LLC
Lifesaving Award
The crew of the M/V Miss Niz – Marquette Transportation
The crew of the M/V Michael Granger – Ingram Barge Company
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Click here to learn more.
Please contact our Development office at 212-349-9090 should you require additional information or assistance.
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Update from the International Seafarers' Center | |
With most vessels at the Ports of Newark and Elizabeth now allowing shore leave, the International Seafarers' Center has seen an uptick in activity. ISC Director Tim Wong points out that "we have been seeing more seafarers in the center, our chaplains have been busy making ship visits, and our drivers transporting seafarers from their vessels to Jersey Gardens mall and the ISC." And, just in time to accommodate the rise in frequency of seafarer transports, the ISC received its new 15-passenger van. The previous van was damaged beyond repair more than a year ago due to flooding from Hurricane Ida. Both ISC vans are granted to the Seamen's Church Institute by the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) Seafarer Trust. | |
Also, the ISC recently welcomed a group of faculty and students from the University of Technology in Łódź, Poland. Part of the "Organization and Management" faculty, their visit to New York (November 4 to 10) focused on exploring transport, logistics, and management in the United States. They toured the ISC and Port Newark during their visit. | |
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Photos
Above: Enrico Esopa from the ITF (left) and ISC Director Tim Wong (right) stand with SCI's new 15-passenger van. This vehicle replaces one that was damaged beyond repair because of flooding from Hurricane Ida in September of 2021.
Below: ISC Director Tim Wong (left) with students from Łódź Technical University.
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On this date, in 1869, the Suez Canal was completed. Sixty-three years later, a seafarer who stayed at SCI's 25 South Street building took this photo of the SS Arandora Star on the Mediterranean side of the canal at Port Said. Submarine U-47 sank the Arandora on July 2, 1940, with a single torpedo—805 died, and about two-thirds of that number were prisoners of war bound for detention centers in Canada. | |
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