Azimuth thrusters provide to a ship amazing manoeuvrability, but also not the easiest to handle, especially if something goes wrong. With this in mind, on the 24^th of May at the Odessa Maritime Training Centre we carried out an Azimuth thrusters emergency steering workshop with cadets of NU “Odessa Maritime Academy”.

On the 18th of May I spent my day in Nikolayev (Ukraine). Particularly at National University of Shipbuilding, which is a two hour drive from Odessa (my home city).

The purpose of the visit was to attend a National Research Conference “Modern technologies of design, construction, operation and repair of ships, marine engineering facilities and engineering structures”.