Seafarers must upskill for decarbonisation

A new action plan, launched at COP27 by UN organisations, shipowners and unions, sets out recommendations to upskill seafarers to meet shipping's decarbonisation goals. The plan is in response to findings from new research which warns that as many as 800,000 seafarers will require additional training by the mid-2030s. Three emission reduction scenarios assessed in the research highlight an immediate need to start putting the training infrastructure in place, to ensure hundreds of thousands of the world's nearly two million seafarers are upskilled and empowered through the transition.