Abstract: The Schools of Maritime Engineering & Business of the Spanish Universities forms the future professionals
of the Spanish Merchant Marine who will sail the seven seas transporting goods in all its
various forms. This remains a very important profession however, the importance of these activities it
is not usually well known by the rest of the society not directly involved with the maritime world. The
professions have been evolving, and the maritime job is not an exception. The marine professionals had
opened new gates to develop new activities in other dierent positions which traditionally were busy by
others carriers, for example, shipping companies. However, training in this sense is lacking, nautical
students in most of the cases are not trained and specialized in this regard. The idea of this research
paper is to quantify and identify the needs for the training and propose a training plan according to
current needs in this area. The methodology of this work, has consisted of comparative analysis based
on the results obtained from dierent surveys. The first survey has been conducted in several schools of
nautical and maritime studies, considering the dierent levels existent at training programs, perception
from students in relation to major weaknesses and missing elements. The second survey focused on
experts in shipping & maritime logistics considering their experience from the trainee students with the
objective to identify the core skills that will be required from a professional point of view. The results
of both surveys have been combined, performing a comparative analysis in order to define a curriculum
model that should cover the academic and business abilities gaps identified during the study
Fuente: Journal of Maritime Research, 2015, 12(1), pp. 37-42
Publisher: Sociedad Española de Estudios Científicos Marinos
Year of publication: 2015
No. of pages: 6
Publication type: Article
ISSN: 1697-4840,1697-9133