China has the potential to ease the current shortage of seafarers gripping the shipping industry, but a number of issues still need to be address a leading shipmanager has argued.

V Ships' Brian Martis
“China has tremendous potential to eventually satisfy current demand,” Brian Martis, crew director at V Ships, told delegates on the second day of Shipping China 2005.

But he said there were a number of issues such as language, industry perceptions and government red tape, which held back the greater use of Chinese seafarers.

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