In the first half of 2019, Marine Recruiting Agency LLC (MRA) trained 851 specialists of stevedoring and road-building industries, 4% more than in the same period of 2018. The most popular were the “dock engineer” and “slingsman” courses selected by 141 and 123 people accordingly.
Also in demand were other port professions: mooring man, loader driver (including container truck drivers, truck-tractor and reachstacker drivers), crane operator, bunkering man, operator of shiploading machine, operator of scraper reclaimer.
Also in demand were other port professions: mooring man, loader driver (including container truck drivers, truck-tractor and reachstacker drivers), crane operator, bunkering man, operator of shiploading machine, operator of scraper reclaimer.
All in all, Marine Recruiting Agency has developed over 50 training packages. Basic professional education programme includes training, retraining and advanced professional training of dock engineers, slingsmen, crane operators, tallymen, mooring men, operators of port and road-building vehicles. Additional professional programme offers training covering labour safety, basics of fire safety, safety of working at height. “Dock engineer”, “slingsman” and “tallyman” courses are available for remote training. Special programmes have been developed for students of industry focused educational institutions. From the beginning of the year, they were offered to 75 students undergoing practical training at the port of Saint-Petersburg who thus obtained additional qualifications.
