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Maritime Trainer Joins RightShip’s Zero Harm Innovation Partners Program

Written by Updates | Aug 22, 2025 6:00:00 AM

RightShip is delighted to welcome Maritime Trainer as the latest member of our Zero Harm Innovation Partners Program. With a strong focus on digital training, competency management, and crew wellbeing, Maritime Trainer brings fresh innovation to the maritime industry. This partnership represents another important step towards a safer, more sustainable future for seafarers and fleets worldwide.

A Shared Commitment to Safety and Wellbeing

Founded in 2011, Maritime Trainer has become a trusted leader in digital learning and competency management solutions, supporting more than 50,000 seafarers across 1,000 vessels. Guided by its motto, “Assess, Train, Retain”, the company is dedicated to enhancing crew competence, improving wellbeing, and strengthening operational safety.

By joining the Zero Harm Innovation Partners Program, Maritime Trainer aligns with RightShip’s mission to eliminate harm in the maritime sector. Together, we aim to foster collaboration, drive innovation, and promote best practices that advance safety and sustainability across global operations.

Tackling the Industry’s Biggest Challenges

Maritime Trainer’s solutions address several of the most pressing challenges in the maritime industry today:

  • Reducing human error through competency-based assessments and immersive training.
  • Supporting crew wellbeing and retention with proactive mental health and fatigue management.
  • Strengthening compliance with international safety and environmental standards.

Through its integrated approach, Maritime Trainer provides shipping companies with the tools to build resilient, competent, and motivated crews—helping prevent incidents while promoting sustainable operations.

Innovative Solutions Driving Zero Harm

  • MTAssess: A comprehensive suite of assessments powered by a unique question bank and proctoring system which ensures reliability that measure technical, behavioural competencies, language proficiency, personality and aptitude working together with a tailored job application module that can be integrated with companies’ ERPs to select the best candidate and reduce the workload.
  • MTTrain: A blended learning platform that combines interactive CBTs powered by storytelling, case studies, gamification and active learning, 3D Learning from Incidents videos, VR and web based serious games, and Digital Twin based courses to prepare crews for critical safety and environmental scenarios.
  • MTCare: A proactive mental health and wellbeing program that provides real-time insights into crew morale and fatigue. By helping companies identify stress-related risks early, MTCare supports safer operations and improved retention.
  • MTBOCAV (Behavioural and Operational Competency Assessment & Verification): A powerful framework that continuously tracks and develops seafarer competencies. By linking identified gaps to targeted training and mentoring, it fosters long-term safety, performance, and crew confidence.

Maritime Trainer is also developing new AI-driven solutions, which will further strengthen compliance, support decision-making, and enhance operational safety. These emerging technologies will be introduced as they mature in the market.

Goals for the Partnership

Through this collaboration, Maritime Trainer seeks to share best practices and encourage wider adoption of proactive training and wellbeing initiatives. By strengthening industry-wide safety and sustainability standards, the company aims to make a measurable impact on the lives of seafarers while advancing the Zero Harm vision.

Looking Ahead

The addition of Maritime Trainer to the Zero Harm Innovation Partners Program signals another step in fostering a culture of competence, care, and collaboration in maritime operations. By combining RightShip’s expertise with Maritime Trainer’s innovative technologies, this partnership will play a pivotal role in shaping a safer, healthier, and more sustainable future for the maritime workforce.

We are excited to welcome Maritime Trainer into the Zero Harm Innovation Partners Program and look forward to the positive impact this collaboration will have across the global maritime industry.

Join us

If your innovation has the potential to redefine the maritime industry, we invite you to submit your application and become part of a global movement towards a safer, greener future.