The Merchant Navy Training Board (MNTB) has launched a year-long Careers at Sea National Awareness Campaign to raise awareness of the shipping industry and the endless career opportunities available. The UK shipping industry supports 650,000 jobs and now is facing a shortage of new talent, with only 600 cadets joining the sector in 2023—far below the 2,000 required annually to…
Lucy Bosten, Head of Marketing and Communications at Carlton Packaging, explores matching packaging to its purpose and finding your place in a changing sector Where does inspiration for the next big thing in packaging come from? Get a room full of packaging designers together, and they may struggle to agree. The industry is a hotbed of innovation, with new technologies…
Persecuted Passengers Ponder their Position From earlier this week, it was all change again at The Strand Torquay. The Torbay Council posted the above notice on line accompanied by the appeal (above in bold) inviting readers to share the information. Presumably this exhortation is because there was no other source of the plans and lots of residents would not be…