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At the beginning of the 'sixties', the use of radar control equipment on board Italian cargo vessels was becoming very common, but only the Navy training centers could offer adequate training to officers and operators. Nautical high schools could only offer basic knowledge of kinematics and the first rudiments of the radar equipment of the time. To cover this lack, in November 1962 the Italian Institute of Navigation, the Municipality of Genoa, the Chamber of Commerce of Genoa, and the International Fair of Genoa founded Ente Radar, dedicating it to the memory of Guglielmo Marconi. As a non-profit organization, Ente Radar G.Marconi has ever since played a role of public utility for the safety of navigation and for the safeguard of human life at sea.

Since the beginning of its activity, Ente Radar has become the main maritime training centre in Italy for radar navigation and manoeuvring. Its equipment, continuously updated thanks to substantial investments, is currently among the most modern and sophisticated in the maritime world.

In November 2005 Ente Radar moved into the Italian Shipping Academy premises, with which it actively cooperates.