Maersk Training is a training and consulting company for the maritime, offshore energy, renewables and terminals and logistics industries, headquartered at Dyrekredsen 4 in Svendborg, Denmark, and owned by the A.P. Moller - Maersk group. It delivers courses to four industries (oil and gas, maritime, renewables, and terminals and logistics) and groups its work into four service lines: workforce management, crisis and safety, consulting and solutions, and people and performance. General enquiries go to [email protected], the address published as the recipient of the website contact form.
From a North Sea blowout to a training business
Maersk Training was established in 1978, the year after a blowout on the Maersk Explorer rig in the North Sea that the company attributes to human error. The damaged travelling block from that rig is displayed at the Svendborg site, and the incident shaped the company's stated purpose of preventing avoidable loss through training. Its first distinctive asset was an anchor-handling simulator built in Svendborg, which the company describes as the most advanced of its kind when it was introduced.
Growth through centres and acquisitions
Expansion came in waves. Between 2006 and 2010 the company opened its first UK centre in Newcastle, extended to India with Maersk Training Chennai, established MOSAIC I, the Maersk Offshore Simulation and Innovation Centre, acquired Svitzer Safety Services and Petcon IPC, and opened a centre in Aberdeen. From 2011 to 2015 it launched a full simulation centre in Stavanger, completed MOSAIC II with full crew integration, opened centres in Rio de Janeiro and Houston, acquired Maersk H2S Safety Services and took over Transocean training centres in Singapore, the United States and West Africa. The following period brought a partnership with Jiangsu Maritime Institute in China, its first mobile training facility, partner locations in Qatar, Abu Dhabi and Taiwan, a training centre in the Humber, UK, and the introduction of virtual training during the pandemic. Since 2022 it has acquired the Norwegian group ResQ, formed a strategic partnership with SynergyXR on extended reality training, opened a facility in Kuala Lumpur and moved Chennai into a larger complex.
Courses, simulators and approvals
The course catalogue covers offshore survival and emergency response, well control and managed pressure drilling, marine operations and bridge simulation, crane and lifting operations, wind turbine technician training, crisis management, and terminal and logistics operations. Delivery is a mix of classroom work, simulation, virtual courses and on-site training, supported by simulation centres including those in Svendborg, Stavanger and Chennai. Maersk Training publishes its accreditations, which cover OPITO, the Global Wind Organisation, the International Well Control Forum, the International Association of Drilling Contractors, the American Petroleum Institute and the Nautical Institute, together with STCW and flag state approvals. The company also runs an industry dictionary and career guides aimed at seafarers and offshore workers.
Where it operates
The company's location directory lists operations in nine countries. In Europe these are Denmark, with centres at Svendborg and Esbjerg, Norway, where it works from Bergen, Stavanger, Haugesund, Kristiansund and Grimstad following the ResQ acquisition, and the United Kingdom, where it has trained since opening in Newcastle. Elsewhere the network covers the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Brazil from Rio de Janeiro and Natal, India from Chennai, Malaysia from Kuala Lumpur and Japan. Training is also delivered at customer sites and through partner facilities, a model the company developed with mobile units and partner locations in Qatar, Abu Dhabi and Taiwan.
Current activity
Maersk Training continues to publish news, guides and technical explainers through 2026, with recent material covering floating and fixed offshore wind turbines, GWO basic safety training requirements and offshore survival techniques, reflecting the shift of its customer base towards renewables alongside oil and gas. The company is rebranding the former RESQ training business in Norway under the Maersk Training name, and it maintains pages for leadership, press and media, careers and vacancies, as well as a newsletter sign-up.