Mapping a maritime career

Career “mapping”, in which a plan is worked out which indicates where a young person wishes to be at every stage of his or her career, is a fashionable concept. Certainly it is a good deal more structured than matters were in previous generations, when a career tended to develop in an almost random fashion, as luck, opportunity, circumstance and ambition intervened.

It is reckoned to be a good idea, particularly when somebody is contemplating a sea career, but with the seafaring confined to a finite period and as a preliminary to a shore side further career within the maritime industry. For sure, some people will stay at sea for the whole of their working lives, but they will be in a minority, and it is perhaps unfair and certainly unrealistic to lure young people into the sea side of the business against this concept of a whole working life spent at sea.

So it is a good idea to consider the options, and also some rough approximation about when career changes will be made, as early as possible in one's career.

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Time to take a call on ship building, maritime activity

The first edition of the Port & Ship International India 2008 conference and exhibition proved to be the most comprehensive setting that brought the industry professionals on a common platform to meet and undertake business in India. The event was jointly organised by Inter Ads Limited and E. J. Krause Associates Inc of the USA.

Sharing his views at the inaugural session, Dr. Stephen Hesselmann, Head, Maritime Department, Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, Government of Germany contended, “India is becoming an economic warehouse. It has many business opportunities as the maritime industry is booming at a very fast pace. The number of containers has increased by 44% from that of the previous year.

Port & Ship International India 2008 is an international exhibition and conference which gave a detailed insight on shipping and ship building, ship technology, maintenance and repairs, ocean engineering, marine offshore technology.

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