STCW 2010 — THE MANILA AMENDMENTS

This is a booklet accompanying the training video released by Videotel and devoted to Manila Amendments to the STCW Convention. While it is quite compact, the publication covers all important issues. This training package has been specifically designed to be used individually, for self study, but it can also be used in small groups of trainees with the target audience including ship owners and managers, port state officers and other governmental authorities, and providers of maritime training courses.

The trainees will gain a sound understanding of the purpose of Manila amendments to STCW convention and their scope, and will be able to plan the changes required to be done to ensure compliance with the standards and requirements taking into account all recent amendments to their contents. We would also recommend to use this Quick Guide for Seafarers as a supplementary training material.

All key issues have been duly covered and upon completion of the course the trainees will be fully aware of the convention and amendments, certification requirements and safety culture, ship security and maritime piracy, action plans and port state work, tanker training and fitness for duty - this is a list of topics covered in the pages of the booklet. In addition to the training audience specified above we would recommend this package to everyone in shipping industry from the crew members and shore support personnel to the managers.