MIAMI, Nov. 13, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Carnival
Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK), the world's
largest leisure travel company, was honored when its Center for
Simulator Maritime Training (CSMART) Academy received the
SAFETY4SEA EUROPORT Training Award for 2019. The recognition,
presented at the 2019 EUROPORT conference in Rotterdam, Netherlands, marks the second
consecutive year the CSMART Academy has been recognized for
excellence in maritime safety training. Rear Admiral Bill Truelove, managing director for CSMART
Academy, along with fellow CSMART Academy team members Stanislav Davidov, Petra
Kendall, Caitlyn Kennedy and
Angelique Vrij-Struik, accepted the award on behalf of Carnival
Corporation at the Rotterdam Ahoy convention center.
"Along with sustainability, the safety and comfort of our guests
and crew are the top priorities for all of us at Carnival
Corporation and our nine global cruise line brands, and being
recognized for a second consecutive year by SAFETY4SEA voters is a
rewarding validation that we are running a world-class operation at
CSMART Academy," said Truelove. "We have over 7,000 bridge and
engineering officers who go through rigorous annual training and
the cruise industry's first Continuous Development program, and we
continue to make investments in advanced simulator systems,
instructional tools and a world-class faculty – all of which
support a role-based bridge and engineering management training
curriculum, an approach never before implemented on such a large
scale."
Added Truelove: "Our commitment to safety has created a culture
of continuous professional development that expands the knowledge
and skills of our bridge and engineering officers to continue
meeting and exceeding the highest industry standards for maritime
safety. That is a hallmark of Carnival Corporation, our cruise
lines and the CSMART Academy, and we all appreciate the validation
that comes with independent recognition from the SAFETY4SEA
Awards."
The SAFETY4SEA EUROPORT Awards celebrate organizations
demonstrating outstanding performance in fostering safety,
excellence and sustainable maritime operations. Industry
stakeholders are invited to submit cases for nominees, which are
reviewed by the editorial board for SAFETY4SEA, a media outlet and
social media platform that covers the shipping industry with a
focus on safety and the environment.
Winners are then selected by an open vote on the SAFETY4SEA
website. In its nomination, CSMART Academy, part of the company's
Arison Maritime Center in Almere, Netherlands, was recognized for its
consistently excellent performance and innovation as a world-class
training center for safety, sustainability and operational
excellence featuring the most advanced simulator equipment,
technology and instructional tools, which emphasize critical
thinking, problem-solving and decision-making.
The 2019 SAFETY4SEA EUROPORT Training Award is the most recent
recognition for the company's innovative safety training center. In
addition to receiving the recognition in 2018, the CSMART Academy
was named the world's first Center of Safety Excellence in
June 2018 by DNV GL, the world's
leading classification society and a recognized advisor for the
maritime industry.
The CSMART Academy also recently launched a new interactive
environmental training course, developed in partnership with the
University of West Florida's (UWF)
Innovation Institute. Part of advanced training for Carnival
Corporation's environmental officers that must be completed
starting in the third year of service and then required annually,
the Environmental Excellence course incorporates UWF's
specialization in challenge-based learning and CSMART Academy's
deep knowledge of maritime training and advanced simulator
capabilities to provide interactive instruction and continuous
professional development for environmental officers across Carnival
Corporation's nine global cruise line brands.
Staffed with one of the world's most experienced maritime
training faculties, the CSMART Academy provides rigorous annual
safety training for bridge and engineering officers responsible for
the navigation and operation of the world's largest fleet of cruise
ships from the corporation's nine cruise line brands – Carnival
Cruise Line, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, Seabourn,
P&O Cruises (Australia), Costa Cruises, AIDA Cruises,
P&O Cruises (UK) and Cunard.
The CSMART Academy features four full-mission bridge simulators
including bridge wings, four full-mission engine room simulators,
eight smaller part-task bridge simulators, 36 part-task engine room
simulators and a 176-room hotel for trainees. The facility's
advanced simulators recreate scenarios, and provide education and
training programs designed around 60 different seaports throughout
the world. Scenarios include adjustments for sea conditions, ship
traffic, aircraft interference, weather events and wildlife
circumvention.
More details on the Arison Maritime Center and the CSMART
Academy are available at www.csmartalmere.com.
About Carnival Corporation & plc
Carnival
Corporation & plc is the world's largest leisure travel
company and among the most profitable and financially strong in the
cruise and vacation industries, with a portfolio of nine of the
world's leading cruise lines. With operations in North
America, Australia, Europe and Asia, its portfolio features Carnival Cruise
Line, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, Seabourn,
P&O Cruises (Australia), Costa Cruises, AIDA Cruises,
P&O Cruises (UK) and Cunard.
Together, the corporation's cruise lines operate 104 ships with
249,000 lower berths visiting over 700 ports around the world, with
17 new ships scheduled to be delivered through 2025. Carnival
Corporation & plc also operates Holland America Princess
Alaska Tours, the leading tour company in Alaska and the
Canadian Yukon. Traded on both the New York and London
Stock Exchanges, Carnival Corporation & plc is the
only group in the world to be included in both the S&P 500 and
the FTSE 100 indices.
With a long history of innovation and providing guests with
extraordinary vacation experiences, Carnival Corporation has
received thousands of industry awards – including recognition by
the Consumer Technology Association™ as a CES® 2019 Innovation
Awards Honoree for OceanMedallion™. A revolutionary wearable device
that contains a proprietary blend of communication technologies,
OceanMedallion enables the world's first interactive guest
experience platform transforming vacation travel on a large scale
into a highly personalized level of customized service. The
prestigious CES Innovation Awards honor outstanding design and
engineering in consumer technology products.
Additional information can be found on www.carnival.com,
www.princess.com, www.hollandamerica.com, www.seabourn.com,
www.pocruises.com.au, www.costacruise.com, www.aida.de,
www.pocruises.com and www.cunard.com.
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