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MARKET SURVEY 2021 MARITIME TRAINING PRACTICES REPORT

MarTID 2021

As we enter the second full year of COVID effectively de? ning our lives, personal and professional, seafarers remain at the literal eye of the storm, and the pandemic and its long tendrils continue to impact this group of nearly 1.9 million professionals operating on nearly 74,000 ships globally. Both mentally and physically, the pandemic has taken a heavy toll on seafarers, both here and now as well as potentially in the long term, as it remains unclear how the events of 2020/21 will dictate individual decisions on seafarer career direction and length.

All charts and graphs courtesy MarTID: 2021 Maritime Traning Practices Report hile there remain many unknowns in the world tors and trainees alike.” He also asks: of maritime training practices, there are in- ? Does the increased approach and use of online learning creasingly a number of ‘known knowns’ cour- remain the weapon of choice?

W tesy of industry surveys such as the MarTID ? Will older, established approaches to training and educa- maritime training practices report, the fourth annual install- tion become the norm again, or will we see a more coherent ment released late in 2021. This year’s survey again takes in and blended approach mixing online and face-to-face learning?

responses from vessel owners, maritime training and educa- Follow this link to discover some of the signi? cant ? ndings www.MarTID.org tion institutions (METIs) and seafarers, an effort designed to in the MarTID 2021 report. get a full, updated and accurate overview of maritime training practices. ? TRAINING BUDGETS

As the pandemic effectively has fast-tracked a number of Budgets decreased for Operators, Increased for METIs ‘digitalization’ initiatives across all industries, John Allen, Di- While past surveys saw a consistent trend of growth in rector Maritime Professional Development, Carnival Corpo- training budgets for vessel operators, nearly 30% saw a de- ration & plc, wrote “There is little doubt, however, that online crease in this year’s training budget, and an additional 50% learning’s improved access, reduced environmental footprint, saw no increase in their budgets, with most, naturally, citing and lower cost have been well noted by training administra- COVID-19 as the reason.

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