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Interesting article. While I am syure there are is a coming shortfall of skilled mariners to support a military surge, but the MARAD adminsitrator doesn't seem to offer too many idweas on ways to keep mariners employed in the interim because there just isn't that big a demand for US mariners in normal trade. And this article kind of conflates a couple of different issues- for example most of those 70,000 are definitely not going to be officers- yet they make it sound like the State and US academies are "only" graduating 900 leaving us 69,100 short of the requirement.
Nonetheless- it's an interesting article. And they are right - the TS Empire State is old and it needs to be replaced. (Although the good thing about having a Steam Turbine ship is that the power companies stand in line to hire NY Maritime Engineering graduates!)
http://news.usni.org/2016/03/22/u-s-facing-looming-shortage-of-merchant-mariners
Nonetheless- it's an interesting article. And they are right - the TS Empire State is old and it needs to be replaced. (Although the good thing about having a Steam Turbine ship is that the power companies stand in line to hire NY Maritime Engineering graduates!)
http://news.usni.org/2016/03/22/u-s-facing-looming-shortage-of-merchant-mariners