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Marine shipping industry needs more women

Today, women represent only two percent of the world’s 1.2 million seafarers. To help increase these numbers, Canadian shipowners as well as international shipping organizations have launched new initiatives to highlight career opportunities for women as well as the contributions they are already making in a wide range of maritime professions.

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Shipping capitalizes on new free trade agreements with Europe and Trans-Pacific

For many years, Canadian federal governments have been attempting to reduce the country’s overwhelming reliance on its giant neighbour to the south as an export market through trade diversification strategies.

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