Japan Places Focus on Maritime Education
the world’s future seafarers and highlighted the need to attract young people to maritime professions.
On the second day, delegates visited maritime heritage sights in Yokohama and witnessed seafarer training demonstrations on the sail training ship Kaiwo Maru and the training ship Taisei Maru.
This was followed by a special session addressing the future needs of the industry, which aimed to discuss how educational organizations could go about educating and training high quality maritime human resources, which are necessary for quality shipping and how they could attract