If boats and boat operations interest you but you don’t want to spend your working days on a boat at sea, there are jobs that interact with the shipping industry without directly being a part of it.
Career fields like accounting, marketing, marine law, marine biology and more can play valuable roles for a range of companies, yet they don’t involve any of the actual nautical work
There is no harm in having some nautical knowledge.
If you’re interested in repairing boats and the equipment on them, we have courses that will complement your other technical training.
There are different types of job opportunities within ports. Those jobs can be dynamic and exciting. Boats from all over the world come into port every day, and it takes an enormous number of people to handle the operations.
You may work in passenger and cargo unloading, distribution or security.
Specific jobs include longshoreman, truck and ship loader, cargo and freight agent, fleet engineer, shipping broker and many more.
We will explain STCW and give some more information about the Basic Safety certificate.