Tag: career at sea

ASA has urged the Abbott Government to be careful in its consideration of the Productivity Commission Report into Tasmanian shipping and freight

The Transport Select Committee has published its findings following an inquiry into the government's shipping strategy, focusing on the Maritime and Coastguard Agency and UK seafarer jobs

Experts hosted a vibrant Q&A session during CMA 2014 on ''Jobs & the future"

Increasing the attractiveness of maritime careers in Europe The European maritime community faces a major challenge in training sufficient numbers of young people to adequately supply the current and future needs of European Union Member States commercial trading fleets.There is also a huge, and growing,demand for European trained and qualified seafarers, both officers and ratings, to work in the numerous and varied industrial sectors that to some extent rely on a steady stream of seafarers qualified in accordance with the IMO Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping Convention (STCW).A research project - the Career Mapping Update2013 (CM2) - initiated by the European Community Shipowners' Associations (ECSA) and the EuropeanTransport Workers' Federation (ETF), and funded by the European Commission, is aimed at addressing these challenges full-on.Key FindingsMost trainee seafarers (both EU nationals andnon-EU nationals) apply for maritime training for entirely, and rather remarkably, positive reasons, and this also applies to the reasons active and ex-seafarers applied for maritime training at the outset of their careersThe advantages of a future career ashore inthe maritime cluster do not feature highly on the list of reasons for applying for maritime training for Europeanseafarers (or for non-Europeans).While a significant proportion of trainee seafarers state they ...

Philippines asks European Union officials to protect 91,000 seafarer jobs on European vessels