Call for Germany to Implement National Maritime Service to Grow Seafaring
Faced with the same challenges that many nations are facing of a dwindling national merchant marine, the German Shipowners’ Association (Verband Deutscher Reeder - VDR) is proposing a novel approach to continue the recent trend it has seen in the growth in the number of young people joining the seafaring profession. During its annual event in Hamburg, the association proposed making sea service in the merchant marine an option in voluntary military service and as an alternative should Germany reinstate...
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