Confitarma's Young Shipowners' Group has launched the "ItalianSeafarers" initiative, an on-line tool aimed at students not only from nautical institutes around the world Italy, but to all school-age minors and adolescents, who wish to learn more about the numerous opportunities offered by companies and ITS foundations that promote highly specialized training with Free courses, funded at national and regional level. "ItalianSeafarers", which has been active for a few months on the LinkedIn, Instagram and TikTok platforms, is now operational also on the www.italianseafarers.it website. "The decision to officially inaugurate the site today - explained Salvatore d'Amico, president of the Youth Group Shipowners and the Education and Human Capital Technical Group of Confitarma, referring to today's celebration of the " Maritary's Day" - represents our will to underline the strong importance of the figure of the seafarer'.

Announcing the new website, the Youth Group of the shipowners' confederation has pointed out that there are thousands of Positions on board merchant and passenger ships, which lacks reference figures. Numerous research centres and specialized companies - specified the youth representation of Confitarma - estimate a reduction of between 5% and 9% of ship's officers over the last two years at the with a possible long-term impact on the whole of the maritime sector, and the Sea Plan shows that in Italy, in the Over the next five years, there will be a demand for more than 10,000 seafarers.

"Seafarers," d'Amico stressed, "are fundamental for the efficiency of units, routes and structure economic itself. Raising awareness of this sector therefore becomes decisive, because the figures on board are often very better trained, paid and protected than many others similar to earth. And we need to push for accurate information on this sector is a common topic, between professional choices or of the study of the new generations".