ECSA, ETF report on maritime career path mapping
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 ...
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