I came across this the other day.
Finally someone is setting the momentum in the right direction
A campaign to attract entrants to the shipping industry
The global shortage of seafarers, especially officers, has already reached serious proportions, threatening the very future of the international shipping industry, which is the lifeblood of world trade.
Recent reports have identified a current officer supply requirement of 498,000 in 2008, with an officer shortfall of 34,000. This figure is expected to rise to a projected officer shortfall in 2012 of 83,900.
On Monday 17 November, senior figures from the International Labour Organization, from the “Round Table” of shipping NGOs – BIMCO, ICS/ISF, INTERCARGO and INTERTANKO – and from the International Transport Workers Federation joined IMO Secretary-General Efthimios Mitropoulos in launching a major new campaign to address the problem.
http://www.imo.org/HumanElement/mainframe.asp?topic_id=1757
About Me
- Sean
- I was twenty years at sea trading worldwide from cadet to Captain before coming ashore, swallowing the anchor and becoming a consultant which I have done since 2002. I am privileged to have met and continue to meet a host of seafarers (over 600 ships and counting). I coauthored the book Cracking the Code on the ISM Code with Dr Phil Anderson, along with John Wright and Stuart Nicolls.
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