Joseph KeefeMarTID 2018:EditorMaritime Logistics Professional & Marine News“And the Survey says ...”New Wave MediaMarTID Results at a GlanceA Global Response: Europe 36%, Asia Paci? c 25%, N. American 22%• Training Budgets Rise: Nearly 60% expect to spend more in 2018• $819: Average spent, per seafarer, for training in 2017• • New Tech, Regulation, Safety: Top 3 drivers for training budgetsTrain & Track: 86% of repondents track training in some form• The inaugural edition of MarTID, the non-commercial, and reports are free • Industry spend on training, re- • New initiatives undertaken by op-Maritime Training Insights Database re- and distributed widely. It is supported by sources used and future trends; erators; andport sheds new light on maritime safety the generous contributions of the three and training practices, what works, and partnering organizations – the World • Methods, tools and techniques for • Common challenges and anticipated what doesn’t. More importantly, its Maritime University (WMU), New training; training trends.analysis and data emanates from you. Wave Media and the Marine Learning The ? rst Maritime Training Insights Systems group. All three stakeholders • The purposes and goals that training Because the origin of the underlying Database (MarTID) Report initiative agree that best practices can be achieved serves within organizations; data is just as important as the vehicle has been two years in the making. This only if this effort is based on real data. that delivers it, it is also critical to de? ne initiative was developed with the intent Your data – protected and anonymized. • How training is tracked and mea- who the respondents represent. To that of being a shared commitment to safe, Speci? cally, the report provides infor- sured within a company; end, MarTID would not have been pos-ef? cient and sustainable operations in mation on: sible without the tremendous response the maritime industry. Importantly, the detailed 50-page report provides valu-able insight, not based on so-called third-party experts, but input from the stakeholder respondents themselves. That means you.Budgets Making MarTIDThe MarTID survey is focused on training done by maritime companies Riseoutside the context of shore-based ed-ucation and training leading to Stan-More operators increased their train-dards of Training, Certi? cation and ing budget from 2016 to 2017 than Watchkeeping (STCW) Certi? cates of decreased it. For those increasing their Competencies. In other words, this is budget, the typical increase fell in the 5% to 25% range.a survey seeking data on how maritime operators continue to train their seafar-ers, post-STCW certi? cation. The re-sults collected will be used to provide MARTID: MARITIME TRAINING INSIGHTS DATABASE 2018 TRAINING PRACTICES REPORTobjective and comprehensive data on how the industry manages and conducts training for shipboard competencies.The aim for this initiative is to pro-vide insights that will aid in enhanced policy-setting, decision-making, bench-marking and optimization of training practices by industry and regulatory authorities at all levels, leading to the sustainable development of productivity and safety of vessel operations.The MarTID project is completely © doomu/AdobeStock68 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • MAY 2018MR #5 (66-74).indd 68 MR #5 (66-74).indd 68 5/7/2018 10:04:45 AM5/7/2018 10:04:45 AM