Several participants requested in-house seminars to follow-up on the presented topics and to specify project related questions on fender design.Together with its partner PT Suprabakti SFT decided to continue the knowledge-sharing with its clients. The first in-house training took place at the engineering department of PT. Semen Indonesia and PT. Terminal Petikemas Surabaya. SFT said it was an honour to visit both companies. The discussions circulated around maintenance which is an important topic for end-users. SFT wish both companies great success for their future development and hope it gets the chance to support them again in the future. SHIBATAFENDERTEAM GOES TO CAMPUS is one of this year’s big agendas of Suprabakti, organised by its training division called SummA Learning Center. Together, SFT aims to share its knowledge to young engineers that soon will be entering the working industries. The first universities where SFT were invited to hold a guest lecture were the University of Indonesia (UI) and Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) at the beginning of April. The lecture at UI’s Faculty of Civil Engineering – Port design course covered fender selection, energy calculation, and rubber compound.
ITB is one of the few universities that has Ocean Engineering in their undergraduate programme. The students were curious about fender spacing and examples of failures in the industry, all answered in detail by SFT representative Chris Millwood. SFT have received amazing responses and enthusiasm from both universities. These knowledge sharing session can be a helpful guideline for the student’s future working life.SFT wish all students a lot of success with their studies at these renowned Indonesian universities.As one of the world’s leading fender specialists, SFT consider it their responsibility to do their part for the industry by sharing know-how with engineers and end users alike.