INDUSTRY NEWS
Maritime UK Makes a Splash for National Careers Week
Maritime UK, the umbrella body for the UK’s £46.1bn maritime sector is using National Careers Week, which began early this month, to promote careers across the industry.
During that time schoolchildren and careers advisors in major maritime regions learnt about careers in one of Britain’s biggest industries.
The week began aboard HMS Prince of Wales, the nation’s newest aircraft carrier as the Royal Navy’s flagship visits Liverpool for the first time. Schoolchildren from across the North West of England were invited aboard the 65,000-tonne carrier, to learn about how the carrier was built and the range of jobs that played a role in delivering the programme.
Maritime UK will be promoting careers across all maritime industries: shipping, ports, engineering, leisure and services.
The programme to build the Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers has been a hugely significant national endeavour.
The primary ship building facilities used to build the aircraft carriers were
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based in Glasgow, Appledore in Devon, Hebburn in Tyneside, Birkenhead in Merseyside, Portsmouth and Rosyth in Fife where the blocks for both ships were brought together.
Hundreds of companies based around the UK have made up the supply chain and provided many of the component parts used to construct both the Prince of Wales and Queen Elizabeth carriers.
Maritime UK’s focus will then shift to Hull and to Bristol as partners from across the sector come together to promote careers at the major Skills Humber and National Careers Guidance Shows.
A new year-round calendar of events to promote maritime careers is now live on the www.
maritimecareers.uk website.
Ben Murray, Director of Maritime UK said: “Following funding from government announced during London International Shipping Week in September we’ve been working with industry partners through the Maritime Careers Taskforce to establish our cross-sector careers campaign. This includes a
dedicated brand, recruitment of a careers and outreach manager, production of new resources and creation of a comprehensive national programme of events where a career in maritime will now be promoted.
“Our activity this week is just the start of this new campaign but already shows what we can achieve by working together across the sector.
“National Careers Week is a fantastic opportunity to promote a career in maritime and get the message out there that maritime offers an incredibly rewarding, fulfilling and exciting career for everyone. Our message is clear, and we’re determined to get it out there.”
A career for everyone: Maritime offers careers at sea and ashore, with the chance to see the world. Being a $3trn industry: the industry is set to double in size by 2030, meaning thousands of new jobs are needed. In the UK, maritime is bigger than rail and aviation combined.
Maritime UK Week is being held from 12-18 October. Organisations wishing to be involved are asked to contact Maritime UK.
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