Shipping cuts training when it needs it most

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A shipping industry commentator warns that companies are cutting training budgets during difficult business conditions, even as workforce skills become more important. Seafarers and maritime staff increasingly need expertise in decarbonisation, AI, cyber risk, and complex regulation.

Irene Rosberg, who runs the Blue MBA at Copenhagen Business School, returns to Splash today.  When business conditions become difficult, training is often one of the easiest budgets to cut. In shipping, that is becoming an increasingly dangerous habit. The industry is asking its people to understand decarbonisation, artificial intelligence, cyber risk, increasingly complex regulation …