New technologies will raise pressure on the demand for qualified crew

Radical changes to ships over the next decade will create additional demand for qualified crews at a time when the industry is facing an acute shortage. A recent BIMCO report forecast a worst-case scenario of a shortage of more than 60,000 officers by 2015 at a time when vessels are set to become increasingly sophisticated. The range of new technologies that are likely to be installed on ships could see increased demands for new crewing models to emerge, in which shipowners outsource maintenance and repair duties to specialists, thus reducing the need for engineers to be highly trained in all the technologies onboard.

Source: BIMCO