GRAND PORT MARITIME DE MARSEILLE /FOS

Place de la Joliette, 23
13226 - MARSEILLE
FRANCE

www.marseille-port.fr/

General description of the organisation:
The “Grand Port Maritime de Marseille/Fos” is a public body, since the law of 1965. It aims at building new facilities, managing and operating port areas and port activities. It ranks 1st French port and the fourth European one, with 100 million metric tons. It is divided in 3 main harbours: Marseille, Lavera and Fos, which respectively are dedicates to passengers, general cargo, ro-ro and ship repair for Marseille, crude oil chemicals and refined for Lavera, Crude oil, mineral ore and containers for Fos. It employs 1500 employees in many fields, mainly in the driving and maintenance of cranes alongside the quays. The Port is awarded quality certificate (ISO 9001:2000) for specific activities, such as Harbour Captain, Crude oil, container and passengers.
The “Grand Port Maritime de Marseille/Fos” has its own Vocational Training Centre, with 13 employees, which manages 3 main activities: in-house training (in average, 850 employees are trained per year); external training, dedicated to foreign ports and companies; academic training, dedicated to students.
In order to improve and to implement training actions for crane drivers, the Port of Marseille has acquired a simulator, with the aim of setting up innovative transfer of skills actions either to newcomers or to already skilled drivers. Indeed the port has decided to train skilled drivers to make them trainers, through opening a “training centre for crane drivers”, open to drivers of the Port of Marseille, as well as from other ports.

Role of the participant organisation in the project:
As subject directly involved in port operations and interested in developing innovation for Vocational Training in the port sector, specifically managing a Simulation Centre, Port of Marseille Authority VTC will be an active partner in the WorkPackages devised for developing and testing innovative methodologies and contents for learning through simulation and disseminating the project results, providing to the various workgroups its technical skills and positively using its role of public representative of a whole port community for facilitating both vertical and horizontal dissemination and project results adoption by the end users.

Will lead WP2 (Development of Didactic Contents). Will participate to all other WPs.