Automation key to tackling maritime skills crisis
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Facing a shortfall of 147,000 qualified officers by 2025, speakers at SOMWME 2017 hail advancements in automation and connection as the answer to shipping’s skills shortage SINGAPORE, Aug. 8, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — A perfect storm of retiring baby-boomers and the ongoing global economic downturn, are causing the number of skilled seafarers in the global …