Government doubles financial support to train UK maritime cadets

The UK government has announced a £15m “funding boost” to train an extra 400 seafarer cadets annually.

The move doubles Whitehall funding for young people to £30m a year through its Support for Maritime Training (SMarT) programme,

As a result, the annual intake of cadets will rise from 750 to 1,200, and multinational shipping companies, including Carnival UK, BP, Shell, Maersk and Stena Line, have pledged to create an extra 450 training positions onboard ships.

Newly appointed Maritime Minister Nusrat Ghani (pictured above) said: “We are ...