Change can be painful, but it can also force us to see old concerns from a new perspective. The expensive and doom-laden reports of officer shortages can now be discarded because senior deck officers and engineers are available to operators with ships still active. It's actually good news for shipping.rnThe supply of officers had become so tight that many were moving from one employer to another in a matter of months, barely gaining knowledge of procedures and rarely adding experience. Knowledge without experience is a dangerous thing, as insurers were finding out, and charterers have made few apologies for assessing the quality of the tonnage offered not by the age and characteristics of the ship itself but by the crew matrix.
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