Essential Competencies for River Navigation Course
This course equips participants with essential skills for safe and efficient river navigation, covering shiphandling, voyage planning, traffic management, emergency response, and watchkeeping to ensure compliant and reliable operations on inland waterways.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
The Essential Skills for River Navigation Course builds practical abilities for safe and efficient movement on inland waterways. Learn to plan trips, manage under-keel clearance, handle shallow-water effects, and use radar, ECDIS, AIS, and navigation tools with confidence. Strengthen emergency response, crew coordination, risk assessment, and continuous improvement to support reliable, compliant river operations every journey.
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Develop skills
- Shallow-water shiphandling: control squat, UKC and draft in narrow river channels.
- Pro river voyage planning: build safe routes, ETAs and contingency anchorages quickly.
- Inland traffic management: handle locks, bridges, tows and ATON with confidence.
- Emergency and safety drills: respond to fog, engine loss and pollution risks promptly.
- Professional river watchkeeping: apply CRM, checklists and risk-based decisions.
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