Tag: trends

‘Smart’ ships are now coming into service, creating demand for a new generation of competent, highly skilled maritime professionals.  

COVID-19 has undoubtedly affected greatly the shipping industry, causing disruption across its sectors. However, the pandemic has fast-tracked the maritime industry switching to digital. In fact, many organizations are proceeding with fast pace to achieve their digital transformation, leveraging business data in order to make better business decisions and improve their operations.  

Allianz published its risk barometer for 2022, noting that cyber perils outrank Covid-19 and broken supply chains as top global business risk.

As digitalization continues to evolve, the shipping industry faces ongoing challenges, including keeping pace with technology, adapting to changes and meeting the growing demands of stricter regulations. To respond to these developments successfully, industry requires a diverse, multidisciplinary, and well-trained workforce and a strategy to attract new talents, agreed experts of 2021 CAREER4SEA Forum.

As shipping is exploring its potentials to meet ongoing environmental requirements, batteries are seen as an attractive opportunity.

The World Economic Forum published its Global Risks Report tracking global risks perceptions among risk experts and world leaders in business, government, and civil society. 

During 2021, shipping industry saw many challenging events; from the pandemic implications on ship operations and the decarbonization push to the huge crisis incident of Evergiven, but managed to stay resilient through collaboration and synergy – this is when wonderful things can be achieved!

The 2021 CAREER4SEA Forum took place virtually on December 15th, 2021, focusing on ways to invest in the maritime workforce of the future and develop their skills, considering the technological transformation and the key trends of the market.

With mobility limitations leaving seafarers stranded and with port restrictions severely limiting port-based welfare, COVID-19 unveiled technology as a means to enhance the people’s performance.

The Society of Maritime Industries (SMI) will issue the findings of its ‘Green Maritime Survey’ at the COP26 climate change summit.