Welcome to ELMO

Our nations’ maritime industry is finding it increasingly difficult attracting enough quality young mariners’ to replace their retiring veterans or crew their expanding fleets. It is a nationwide problem, which has manifested itself over the last few decades, by way of labor disputes, marine incidents, government intervention and unrelenting public scrutiny.

The reason for this lose of interest in our once sort after profession, is multifold and no one party holds the full blame. In truth the manning crisis has gone past the point where the need to identify exactly who is responsible is of any use to either. What is important is that all entities actively acknowledge a problem exists, what its causes are, and not attempt to diminish the seriousness of their consequences.

The ELMO society believe that if a positive solution is to be found, which will reverse this decline of merchant seamen, the maritime industry must with honesty, evaluate what is causing this mounting disinterest in a career at sea. As difficult as these findings may be or how costly they may be to improve; only through their understanding will a lasting solution to our industry’s employment problem become a reality.