高桅横帆船航海训练:解决船员短缺危机

Sail training on tall ships——helping to solve the looming crisis in manning

奈杰尔·罗是国际航海俱乐部的会长和主席，自该组织创立以来，一直担任该职务；他还是ISTA的前任会长。他的职业背景是新闻、公共事务和公司管理。

Sail training provides critical seamanship skills that cannot be learned in any other context,and the events organised for tall ships by Sail Training International could sail training on tall ships-helping to solve the looming crisis in manning recruiting and training young people for a career at sea is a problem for much of the shipping industry today. Studies like the BIMCO/ISF 2005 Manpower Study have shown a deficit in the number of qualified officers. Bearing in mind the large new build programme that the shipping industry is facing,a manning crisis could be on our hands.Moves are under way to make sail training on tall ships a key part of the solution be the single most cost-effective tool to attract young people to a career at sea.There are estimated to be close to 1,000 sail training vessels around the world,and about 100 of the big square-rigged tall ships dedicated to sail training.Many are owned by navies and maritime academies,some by charities and foundations,others by commercial operators and individuals.They present a powerful opportunity for the shipping industry.