For the first time, our Training Center assumed the certification of port longshoremen. From March 25 until April 12, at the terminal’s daily work, 13 new candidates were incorporated, as part of the necessary theoretical and practical preparation, in order to achieve the expected results.
“From the very moment of homologation of the center, by the Cuban Registry of Shipping, and its approval by the Ministry of Education, we set out to certify the main specialties that allow performance within the port enclosure area. In that sense, a program for the preparation of longshoremen was designed, activity which third companies had undertaken for the time being,” said Mario Luis Morales Lima, teaching secretary of the center.
The program comprises 120 hours, and among its objectives it is important to master aspects related to the establishment of the methodology to be followed for the execution of the operations of unloading and loading of vessels, boats and naval devices docked along TC Mariel berth, reception and delivery of containers by railways, as well as consolidation, deconsolidation, and other complementary services.
During the course development, there intervened six specialists pertaining to the areas of Safety and Health at Work, Environment and Quality, Operations, and Human Resources; an instructor, and the officer of Protection of Ships and Port Facilities.
“It consists of a multidisciplinary program –conformed by members of the center in collaboration with the Project Group-, taking into account the criteria of specialists in the Operation Area and experts in the activity. The procedures and work instructions of the processes in which a stevedore intervenes, was taken as the basis of the study material”; Morales Lima added.
“We want to go beyond the preparation of these specialties, that is, to design programs for middle managers (yard and dock chiefs, brigade and stowage supervisors), based on the interest of the Operations Department to form a stock that guarantees the quality in the execution of the processes, and the successful transit in the career plan conceived for the training of the personnel”.