This is a centuries old method of providing workers with an opportunity to learn a skill through on-the-job training.
What is an apprenticeship?
100
People who have this job arrange and track incoming and outgoing shipments of cargo.
What is a Cargo and Freight Agent?
100
This person stands watch on the bow or wing of the ship's bridge looking for obstructions in the ship's path, measures water depth and turns the wheel.
What is an able seaman?
100
This is the acronym Southeast Maritime and Transportation Center.
What is SMART?
100
She is the first woman to have earned both of the highest licenses available on merchant cargo ships?
Who is Captain Carol Curtiss?
200
Registered Apprenticeships are registered through this part of the government.
What is the Department of Labor?
200
People who hold this position work at major ports, loading and unloading containers with a mechanical boom, a tower, and cables.
What is a crane operator?
200
This person is responsible for the safe and efficient operation of a merchant vessel.
What is a Captain?
200
Unique colleges that offer students degree programs that allow them to work as a maritime officer?
What are Maritime Academies?
200
This type of secondary schools partner with SMART Centers.
What are community colleges?
300
In addition to valuable hands on experience, these are what you receive while working a Registered Apprenticeship.
What are pay and benefits?
300
These employees drive and control equipment that moves materials around warehouses, factories, and on ships. The equipment operates by a hydraulic lift.
What is a forklift operator?
300
This person guides ships into harbors, rivers, and ports, but is not a part of the ship's crew.
What is a pilot?
300
These type of secondary schools partner with SMART Centers.
What are community colleges?
300
She is the current Executive Director and Principal Investigator of SMART Center.
Who is Barbara R. Murray?
400
In addition to the hands-on experience, you are also required to receive this type of instruction to complete an apprenticeship in order to learn the theory and knowledge of the skills practiced.
What is classroom instruction?
400
This person prepares customs documents and ensures that shipments meet all applicable laws for import and export.
What is a freight forwarder?
400
This category of jobs include deck and engine room positions?
What is Vessel Operations?
400
These are pathways for those who have served in the armed forces to become employed in maritime jobs.
What is a Military to Maritime Career Pathway?
400
This ship was constructed of 24 tons of scrap steel and has the motto "Never Forget".
What is the USS New York?
500
Upon completing a Registered Apprenticeship program, students receive this card, which allows them to work anywhere across the US.
What is a Journeyman card?
500
There are more than 360 of these across the nation, which provide employment for more than 23 million Americans.
What is a commercial port?
500
This category of jobs includes skilled trade, dock and warehouse, and professional positions.
What are land based jobs?
500
Port of Baltimore, Port of Galveston, Port of Houston, Port of New Orleans, Port of Virginia, and Port of Long Beach
What are Port Partners?
500
This act requires that American flagged ships be built and maintained in the US and crewed by Americans.