Future Skills Requirements Analysis in Maritime Industry

Skills Requirements for Engineering Graduates: Industry Perspective

In the last few years, it has been observed through various surveys and seminars that the large number of engineering graduates is not employable. One of the important reasons for that is the lack of necessary skills in them. Though the purposes of education is the holistic development of the graduates and make them strong in fundamentals, but it cannot be denied that in the present economic en...

Maritime Communications – Identifying Current and Future Satellite Requirements & Technologies

It is tricky to predict the future, especially in the maritime communications market – what are the future demands? Which technologies will be available? How will the regulatory bodies think in the future? Within this paper, the recent development towards future satellite requirements and technologies will be spotlighted. Four use case scenarios are in the focus here, namely: e-navigation, Arct...

Future Skills in the ICT Industry: Qualitative and Quantitative Examination

The operational environment of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry is in continuous change due to factors like rapid technological development, uncertain economic development and unpredictable consumer behaviour. Consequently, also the skills needed in the ICT industry are changing. Therefore, the quantitative and qualitative demand of ICT professionals in the future is ...

Cardiovascular diseases in the modern maritime industry

Acute cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the main natural causes of death in industrialized countries — both at sea and on land. Seafarers face very specific job-related cardiac risk factors, such as time pressure, long working hours, or high stress factors onboard [1, 2]. Taking into consideration the healthy worker effect of seafarers, cardiac risk factors are shown to occur slightly more freq...

e-Maritime Standardisation Requirements and Strategies