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The main objective of the proposal is to better train staff concerned with certificate evaluation in the maritime sector and to improve respective professional skills in order to identify and to combat falsification of certificates of competency during the “transfer action”. The expected results are the development of an anti-fraud package which aims to improve transparency and recognition of qual ...

The 2010 BIMCO/ISF study highlights that shipping faces a challenging future regarding crewing with an increasing imbalance in the maritime workforce. A surplus of Ratings especially in today’s EU Member States is facing increasingly unsecure employment prospect caused by cheaper manpower from the Pacific Rim Countries. This however is countered by a lack of ships’ officers, with a dramatic short ...