GTT Training provides LNG bunkering simulator for MTC Hamburg

French liquefied natural gas containment system specialist, GTT, said its unit, GTT Training, provided its G-Sim LNG simulator software to the MTC Maritime Training Centre in Hamburg.

Completed in September 2019, the installation consists of one instructor and three student stations and includes the model libraries that allow for training dedicated to various types of LNG carriers and LNG fuel gas handling and bunkering systems, GTT said in its statement.

It will be used by MTC Hamburg to expand its training portfolio in particular in the support of requirements to train personnel for service on LNG-fuelled vessels.

Developed internally by GTT Training G Sim provides a training platform for training operatives in the handling of LNG.

Ray Gillett, director and general manager of GTT Training said, “We are very pleased to receive this contract and to be able to assist MTC Hamburg in their continuing commitment in providing the trained personnel that are required to service the vessels that carry and use LNG.”