PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF SEAFARES FOR WORKING ON THE SHIPS OF NEW GENERATION: GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

Abstract

Speed-increasing changes in the Sea and River Transport Industry in connection with the adoption of Manila amendments to the International Convention on Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers 1978 and changes in the design of modern vehicles, their automation, using the latest technologies, techniques and materials have led to the need to upgrade vocational training of seafarers on the workplace. The transition from the traditional system of training of seafarers on workplaces to the preparation using pedagogical innovation through the introduction in the educational process modern educational technologies, flexible learning technologies, training complexes, equipped with modern information and communication technologies made it possible to provide training sailors to date and provide competitiveness in the maritime labor market. During the research revealed specific features of sailors training for the current generation of ships. Prepared by modern educational technology worker of maritime profile must: have a wider range of professional awareness and reduced mobility in the composition of crews; be familiar with the modern technology of the safety of the ship that is implemented in its management of automated processes; have required complex knowledge of special training under the STCW Convention and Code; possess professional knowledge of a foreign language to work in multinational crews; be prepared for the changes that make the IMO to sailors on the safe operation at sea. Special attention in the training of maritime workers are given to their preparedness in cases of emergency and dangerous situations through using modern training equipment and improvement of system of certification and control of professional competence of seafarers at all stages of vocational training of seafarers.