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4th Global Conference on Innovation in Marine Technology and the Future of Maritime Transportation-GMC’21, İstanbul, Turkey, 18 - 19 November 2021, pp.64
The increase in the number and size of ships, demands, needs and expectations have an effect upon Vessel Traffic
Service Operator (VTSO) daily workload and require a high concentration, attention to perform one or more tasks at
the same time. In addition that the recent developments in shipping industry reveal that VTSO will also be interacted
simultaneously with ships partly automated, remotely controlled with/without seafarers on board or fully autonomous
ships other than non-SOLAS vessels in the near future. As a consequence of these emerging developments that
aptitude of a VTSO is become distinguished attribution more than having skill, attitude and knowledge even if VTSOs
have previous maritime experience. This study is proposed a solution to carry out aptitude assessment on e.g. spatial
awareness, visual memory, reasoning, multi-task, complex attention, auditory memory, psychomotor as computerbased
along with VTS simulator. The computerized aptitude test may also be used stand-alone instrument for the
assessment of VTSOs during recruitment process.