Officers complete training

AIR Niugini says it continues to offer training on International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG) to external clients in the maritime industry.
Last week, 11 officers from the National maritime safety authority (NMSA), specifically captains and chief engineers, completed a three-day training at the Air Niugini aviation training centre at 7-Mile, Port Moresby.
The airline said the training was important because marine dangerous goods were hazardous materials that endangered marine life.
These are goods such as ammonium nitrate, cyanide, hydrochloric acids, paints, explosives, fuel (petrol, kerosene, diesel, jet A1), aerosols, gases (compressed, liquefied, refrigerated, dissolved, absorbed) and substances that endanger the marine life.
The training of the 11 NMSA officers was the first IMDG code training for 2021 carried out by Air Niugini non-technical training instructor Martin Tugano with four more planned throughout the year.
Air Niugini started offering training on IMDG to external clients a year ago and, has so far, run three IMDG code courses last year for other shipping companies including Express Freight Management, Origin Energy and Hombinmbo Investment Ltd.