The Ship Report, Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Mililtary Sealift Command proposes sidelining vessels The Military Sealift Command, which has ships stationed on the Columbia, has proposed sidelining 17 of its ships to address a dwindling workforce of mariners. The situation reflects a wider trend worldwide, especially since the pandemic, where sailors simply don't want to be away from home for months, with often mediocre compensation, and not enough time off to create healthy work-life balance. The workforce of mariners in the world is getting smaller as demands increase, and these are the folks who bring us our "90 percent of everything." Transcript here: http://shipreport.nfshost.com/audio/SRTranscript082724.pdf