There are concerns in the crewing and ship management industry that owners could cut back on investment in seafarer training as a result of the global financial crisis. “If the crisis deepens, history may start to repeat itself and the cadet programme could find itself a few notches lower on the shipowner’s list of important [...]

Reports have it that Gateway Terminals India Pvt Ltd (GTI), the APM Terminals-Concor joint venture that owns and operates a modern container terminal at Jawaharlal Nehru port, recently announced the launching of its Talent Development Centre on its campus. Equipped with state-of-the-art training facility, the training centre, the reports suggest, is to provide hands-on experience [...]