To keep their engineering teams staffed and up to snuff, ports are leveraging an array of workforce development strategies.
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You’re Not Alone! Building Your Sustainability Team
Because ecosystem challenges, especially in supply chains, often cross jurisdictions, no single organization can make the type of systemic changes necessary to reduce economic, societal and environmental stressors. The best approach to sustainability may be to develop partnerships.
Read More »Partnerships Make Green Investments a Reality for Seattle/Tacoma Ports
From The Front Lines By John Wolfe, The Northwest Seaport Alliance The Northwest Seaport Alliance (NWSA) is an innovative marine cargo partnership of the Port of Seattle and Port of Tacoma. Since our inception, we’ve learned that working together creates greater opportunity and outcomes for our ports and the communities we serve. Our maritime industry works together to keep global ...
Read More »Powering Workforces with Partnerships
Ports continue to forge deep connections with industry partners, labor unions, government, schools and communities to ensure a talented, upskilled and diverse workforce for the future.
Read More »Ports Beyond the Public Eye: Seaport’s Hidden Heroes
Sometimes heroes are hidden, but other times their accomplishments even earn recognition from outside organizations. Here are just a few of our 2019 hidden heroes.
Read More »Ports Beyond the Public Eye – Careers: Custom Careers
These maritime-related jobs are somewhat unusual, but it’s hard to imagine how we could live without them.
Read More »An Enterprising and Ambitious Approach to Sustainability
Ports Are Aggressively Pursuing Creative Solutions to Make Their Operations More Environmentally FriendlyBy Tom Gresham Seaports operate on the front line of climate change. Consequently, the port industry has proved ambitious in its attempts to take a leadership role on critical sustainability issues, often exceeding expectations and regulations while pushing for impactful and innovative new ways of operating. Through the ...
Read More »Apprenticeship Programs: Tried, True and Effective
Apprenticeship Programs: Tried, True and Effective A centuries-old method of training skilled workers could help supply ports and their maritime partners with the modern workforce they need. * By Mary Lou Jay * Apprenticeships have long been a well-established and well-respected route to good jobs, but for a time they fell out of favor because of the perception that college ...
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