The Academy of Logistics and Logistics has been established in Venice. of the Sea, a new technological and training centre dedicated to the logistics that is the result of the collaboration between the ITS Marco Polo Academy, Vemars and the CFLI (Logistics Training Centre) Intermodal), the training body of the System Authority Port of the Northern Adriatic Sea. The pole will be created in the spaces that host the Marco Polo ITS thanks to a investment of four million euros. «The new project of the Academy of Logistics and the Sea - explained the President of ITS Marco Polo, Damaso Zanardo - provides for the construction of new laboratories and simulation centres with advanced and latest generation technologies. In our hub technological and educational development, students will have the opportunity to to practice with immersive simulators of ship management, and port cranes. ITS Marco Polo has invested four million euros in highly innovative tools and materials for the training, not only for high school graduates but also for adults. 87 % of those who attend a two-year post-diploma higher education course in one of the hundred or more ITS in Italy - underlined Zanardo - finds a workplace before the end of the course. Specifically for us 95% of students are placed in the world of work in coincidence with the withdrawal of their diploma'.

With the investment, ITS Marco Polo expands and innovates its offer training by equipping its headquarters in Venice with 4.0 laboratories with State-of-the-art simulators that guarantee teaching immersive for the operation of trains, the simulation of the use of of cranes and lifting equipment in port and interport, and the Simulation of ship management. In particular, the Navigation, one of the most advanced in Europe, recreates docking at the world's main ports. The structure includes Multiple interactive ships controlled from a trainer station located outside the main ship, from which you can control the performance of the exercises of the different ships, and salt for the debriefing of the exercises connected directly to the network of the system. The main dashboard has a wide range of visibility from the conning point, by about 300°.

The crane simulator will allow you to train students to the use of ship-to-shore quay cranes, reach stackers and mobile port cranes, while the port crane simulator trains offers students the opportunity to familiarize themselves with Cockpit equipment and diagnostic systems and with signalling on the line and to learn how to drive trains in different weather conditions of visibility and adherence, including abnormal and emergency situations, and Familiarize yourself with the train's electrical and pneumatic system.

Recalling that for years the Port System Authority "supports the work of ITS Marco Polo and collaborates with the Veneto Region to structure a centre of educational excellence in national level that is able to make a transfer systematic provision of information and knowledge to the new generations', the President of the Port Authority of the Northern Adriatic Sea, Fulvio Lino Di Blasio, pointed out that "the work in our ports It is, today, highly specialized and requires a wide set of practical skills as well as an important background in theoretical knowledge. These are well-paid professions that they offer space for growth and important and stimulating opportunities for our young people. Above all - he added - these are jobs that are in high demand, suffice it to say consider that the percentage of occupancy in the first months after ITS Marco Polo students' graduation exceeds 90%'.