The Ship's Electro-Technical Officer: Essential at Sea, Optional on Paper

Fuente: International Business Times

Vadym Dudych Over the past decade, merchant ships have been fitted with new layers of electrical and electronic equipment. Scrubbers, ballast water treatment plants, shore-power interfaces, dual-fuel engines with electronic fuel-injection control, cyber-hardened bridge systems: each additional layer means more programmable controllers, more sensors, more high-voltage components. Yet the position responsible for keeping all those electronic systems alive at sea is still not required by the International Maritime Organization to be on board.