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

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Fews App Post Time 6h ago

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.

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