WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD) released its first Diverse Mariner Workforce Recruitment Strategy to assist the six State Maritime Academies (SMA) and the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) in strengthening the next generation of the nation’s mariner workforce.  This strategy focuses on identifying and enhancing the incoming talent pool of individuals joining the mariner workforce that remains vital to national security and economic prosperity.

Our Nation has unprecedented efforts underway to grow the U.S.-flag fleet and to strengthen our mariner workforce.  The Diverse Mariner Workforce Recruitment Strategy complements MARAD’s Mariner Workforce Strategic Plan to ensure that our Nation has sufficient credentialed mariners to crew both the U.S.-flag fleet of commercial and strategic sealift vessels.

View the Diverse Mariner Workforce Recruitment Strategy and the Mariner Workforce Strategic Plan.

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