Maritime human resources training to serve the sustainable maritime economic development strategy: Status, Challenges and Countermeasures for Vietnam

Abstract

Vietnam is a coastal country, with more than 3,260 km of coastline and about 4,000 islands, 28/63 provinces, coastal cities. In the context that Vietnam is striving to become a maritime power nation; achieving basic criteria of sustainable maritime economic development; increasing capacity to respond to maritime security threats in the face of the 4.0 industrial revolution and globalization’s challenges today, the training and developing of maritime human resources is important and breakthrough for the country’ development. Human resources are a decisive factor in the success and progress of a country and are the main measure to evaluate the level of progress, equality and sustainable development of society. This article focuses on analyzing and interpretating the following issues: i) Overview of the theoretical issues of “maritime human resources”; ii) Inadequacies and challenges in Vietnam's maritime human resources training; iii) Challenges and disadvantages in the esucation and training of Vietnamese maritime resources; iv) Countermeasures for Vietnam.