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Statement of Chairman Oberstar and Subcommittee Chairman Cummings from
today’s Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Hearing:
The Coast Guard’s Marine Transportation System study predicts maritime trade
to double or triple by 2020. The study also highlights the current downward
trend of available mariners, domestic and international, which if it
continues, the nation’s future shipping demand will not be met. With this
trend, I am concerned that the U.S. will not be positioned to handle the
increase in maritime trade. Although there may not be a current shortage of
mariners, the statistics of mariner’s age and the difficulty of recruiting
and retaining the mariners will eventually create a shortage. As 30 percent
of inland mariners are eligible to retire in the next seven years, and the
average age of a merchant mariner with a Master’s license being over the age
of 50, there is a foreseeable problem in the near future.
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