Our Services

AMTA offers a wide range of services to support maritime operations. From assessing the skills of marine personnel to designing entire ports, our team of experts provides the knowledge and expertise you need to optimize your maritime infrastructure and operations.

Assessment

Training a pilot or tugboat captain is an expensive and time-consuming process. The responsibilities of a marine operator are significant and the consequences of an accident for a port or the environment can be enormous. Therefore, it is essential to select individuals with the right skills. AMTA, as an objective and independent organization, conducts selection procedures for marine pilots, tugboat captains, and mooring men.

With the increasing number of (private) ports and the growing size of ships, AMTA believes that only a thorough selection, training, and assessment carried out by an independent organization in a fair, consistent, transparent, and objective manner can guarantee the necessary level of skill for pilots to guide ships into ports.

Working alongside HR recruitment experts, AMTA has defined job-specific skills for marine personnel profiles. In addition to these skill tests, practical exams are conducted using simulators to assess the applicants’ practical abilities. This method ensures pilot organizations and tugboat companies that candidates possess the required capabilities to successfully fulfil their roles.

Advice on Port Approaches

AMTA’s experienced team is your best partner for optimizing your port’s potential. The team offers advice on how to improve port approaches, accommodate ships with deeper drafts or larger sizes, and enhance tug performance.

Not only does the team provide advice, but if necessary, members will travel to your port to assist with new manoeuvres, larger ships, or different tug assistance methods.

Feasibility Studies

AMTA’s team has participated in numerous feasibility studies, including projects for the Port of Antwerp, the new Panama Canal locks, the Port of Cherchell, the Nicaragua Trans-Oceanic Canal, the Port of Oman, and the Port of Lomé. AMTA conducts feasibility studies to determine how to organize port approaches more efficiently, accommodate deeper draft ships, define the optimal layout of entrance channels or new berths, and recommend the ideal turning basin diameter or tug power or type needed for assistance.

Port Design

AMTA also assists with the design of entire ports or berths, including the design of access channels, orientation, depth, width, and bank slope. They define the size of docks, turning basins, fendering, and bollards, as well as the size and orientation of locks.

Aids to navigation

AMTA’s experts are at your service to determine or assess your aids to navigation. Based on its longterm expertise in various ports across the world, the team can assess existing or future port and terminal operations to determine the need, positioning and type of signalization required to assure safe and efficient operations in your port.

Where necessary, the situation can be assessed on the simulators in order to determine the most optimum situation.