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was held at the Gdynia Maritime University (UMG), Republic of Poland. 

The conference was organized by the Faculty of Navigation of UMG and the Nautical Institute, London, United Kingdom. 

More than 200 scientists and professionals of the maritime industry from 83 countries of the world participated in the conference. The conference is dedicated to the dissemination of knowledge, experience and research results on navigation, shipping safety and other issues related to maritime transport activities.

The National University “Odessa Maritime Academy” (NUOMA) was represented at the conference by Professor of the Department of Marine Technologies, Honorary Secretary of the Nautical Institute of Ukraine Volodymyr Torskiy FNI and Senior Lecturer of the Department of Ship Handling Captain Dmytro Zhukov. 

On the first day of the conference, the Rector of UMG, Professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Captain Adam Weintrit presented the awards that have been presented since 2019. The “Ulysses Award”, in recognition of special merits and participation in the activities and popularization of the Nautical Institute, the co-organizer of the conference, was received by Professor of NUOMA Volodymyr Torskiy. 

During the conference, Volodymyr Torskiy had a presentation “Simultaneous Operation during LNG Bunkering at LNG-Powered Vessels”, he also was a Chair of the scientific section “MET (Maritime Education and Training)”. Dmytro Zhukov presented a report on “Dependence of the maximum approach distance on the shape of the ship’s safe domain”. 

The conference ended on Friday, June 13, 2025. On the last day of the event, participants had the opportunity to tour the UMG Offshore Center, opened in February 2024. The conference guests were also introduced to the history of the Vistula Fortress, as well as the history of one of the most important places for Pomerania and Poland – Westerplatte, where World War II began on September 1, 1939. On this day, participants in the event also had the opportunity to visit the old city of Gdansk, which was once the largest of the Hanseatic cities in this part of Europe. 

The next International Conference on Maritime Navigation and Maritime Safety TransNav  is scheduled for 2027. 

The Nautical Institute members – comments :

Dear Vladimir

What an honour to receive the Ulysses Award and from my perspective it is absolutely heartwarming to see the way maritime professionalism is being recognised. Maritme safety operational qualifications are rightly examined by government officials, but the discipline and leadership applications are left out of the equation, similarly the application of new technologies, which are more specialised to ship type may never become examined. Hence we need this professional dimension which you recognise so well.

Congratulations

Warmest best wishes

Julian Parker, Past the NI CEO