If there is one certainty in today’s uncertain shipping environment, it is that we need more competent personnel at sea and ashore than ever before. And the situation is getting worse. Any percentage drop in these young people coming forward to pursue a career at sea, no matter how small, will have massive knock-on effects for the future pool of available talent.
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Changing the attitude of seafarers to their role is the new crewing yardstick
Third-party shipmanagers are facing a raft of difficult challenges: how to recruit and retain a competent workforce against the backdrop of a rapidly increasing world fleet and how to ensure the training they receive can deliver the attitude change needed to guard sea-transport safety against a future large-scale casualty, writes Rajaish Bajpaee, chief executive of Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement
27 June 2014 0:00 GMT
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27 June 2014 0:00 GMT
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