Malaysian Overview on the Maritime Industry: Maritime Education and Training in the Shipping Sector

"Malaysia boasts a well developed transportation and communications infrastructure. However, it will have to overcome significant challenges to reach its goal of becoming a fully developed nation by 2020. Bottlenecks persist in the supply of labour, shortfalls in training and technology are apparent1...". This assessment by the United States Department of Commerce aptly describes the situation
we are in now. Before we look further at the maritime education and training in the shipping sector, perhaps it would be prudent to ask a few questions in order to set the right tone for our deliberation.