From July 11 to 12, 2024, the International Scientific Conference “Navigating the future: safety first,” dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the International Convention SOLAS 74, was held at the Batumi State Maritime Academy, Batumi, Georgia.

Master mariner Dmytro Zhukov, a senior lecturer at the Department of Ship handling of NUOMA, was invited to the Conference and made a presentation.

The conference was opened by the Vice-Rector of the Batumi State Maritime Academy Shota Kakabadze. Representatives of the government and the Maritime Administration of Georgia and Adjara took part in the conference. Maritime educational institutions from Bulgaria, Georgia, Germany, Turkey and Ukraine were represented at the Conference. More than fifty reports from lecturers and students were heard.

 The main topics of the reports were:

– Safe and economical operation of maritime transport;

– Innovations in maritime transport and education;

– Issues of maritime law;

– Protection of the sea and coastline environment;

– Logistics of transport processes;

– Maritime business, tourism and trade.