Russia. Makarov State Maritime Academy opens its first Neptune LNG Simulator

Makarov State Maritime Academy, St. Petersburg, Russia officially opened its new Kongsberg Maritime supplied Neptune LNG Simulator on 13th March 2008. The Simulator is reported to be the first and only one of its kind in the Russian Federation, and has attracted the attention of many international crewing and ship management companies, several of whom attended the opening.
The new Neptune LNG Simulator provides training facilities for cargo mates and marine engineers on both Spherical and Membrane LNG tankers and has been developed to provide focused training benefits for students and seafarers at all levels of experience. "The Simulator is going to be used for training of personnel for LNG tankers, both cadets' education and seafarers re-training," stated the Deputy Rector of the Academy, Professor Nikolay Alekseyev during the opening ceremony.