Future Shipping Operations and Transitioning Maritime Higher Education: An Activity System Perspective

8 pages•Published: January 5, 2024

Aditi Kataria, Gholam Reza Emad and Jiangang Fei

Abstract

With a rapidly evolving shipping industry, and the prospect of autonomous vessels on the horizon, there is a critical need for a workforce equipped with updated skills. However, research indicates that current Maritime Education and Training (MET) falls short in meeting the dynamically evolving requirements of modern and future ship operations. Despite the existence of an international Convention dedicated to MET, marine accidents continue to occur, necessitating a comprehensive examination of the changing landscape of maritime education. MET is currently undergoing a transition to cope with and cater to future shipping requirements. Furthermore, the shipping industry has been known to be reactive and regulation has traditionally been backward looking, legislating for improvements after major disasters. However, the technological changes in Industry 4.0 are rapid and require proactiveness to deal with them. Following the completion of the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) regulatory scoping exercise, the MASS Code is currently under development. Against this background, this paper is timely; it draws upon ethnographic research on the MET process, and advocates for a holistic exploration of evolving MET through the lens of Activity System (AS) analysis. AS provides a theoretical framework to envisage, and comprehensively understand the interconnected components of the maritime higher education AS. This paves the way for a more effective and responsive approach to training the maritime workforce to overcome the challenges posed by Industry 4.0.

Keyphrases: activity system, boundary object, chat, industry 4.0, mass, met, stcw

In: G. Reza Emad and Aditi Kataria (editors). Proceedings of the International Conference on Maritime Autonomy and Remote Navigation 2023, vol 2, pages 20-27.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/3gx3
	https://doi.org/10.29007/l6h9

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{ICMARNAV2023:Future_Shipping_Operations_Transitioning,
  author    = {Aditi Kataria and Gholam Reza Emad and Jiangang Fei},
  title     = {Future Shipping Operations and Transitioning Maritime Higher Education: An Activity System Perspective},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Maritime Autonomy and Remote Navigation 2023},
  editor    = {G. Reza Emad and Aditi Kataria},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Technology},
  volume    = {2},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2516-2322},
  url       = {/publications/paper/3gx3},
  doi       = {10.29007/l6h9},
  pages     = {20-27},
  year      = {2024}}

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