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SHIPYARD TRAINING

When it

Comes to

Training:

NMEC Means Business

Workforce Development is the central focus of the National Maritime Education

Council. In choppy, uncertain economic waters, NMEC has a new business plan to standardize craft training processes.

By Joseph Keefe he stated mission of the National Maritime Education

Council (NMEC) is to lead the Maritime industry in

Tthe development, promotion, and implementation of standardized craft training processes. The collaborative, multi- regional, industry-centered national organization made up of industry stakeholders recently launched a new business plan that aims to reduce the cost of entry for companies desiring membership signi? cantly. Beyond this, the effort – consisting, in part, of several new course titles, the last level of Structural

Fitter, and the ? tter journey-level assessment – further de? nes

NMEC’s role as a national voice for workforce development for the maritime industry.

First established in March of 2012 with 12 founding mem- bers representing the shipbuilding and ship repair industries to oversee and fund the development of a national workforce development system, NMEC has evolved over time to meet many challenges. The shipbuilding and repair industry today has two challenges – actually four – but only two which it

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