Solutions for EU manning crisis
Sir Robert Coleman, who once ran the transport directorate in Brussels and now monitors the EU for BIMCO, is to head up a taskforce to find solutions to the regional crisis facing maritime recruitment. It is one of those problems which sounds a lot easier to solve than it really is, once the full scale of the problem is revealed. Continue reading- Cruise disaster could have larger lessons
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1. A group within a sector or industry, seeking to inspire the rest with its own enthusiasm and activity.
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