However, simply manual labor is needed for the ship’s limited area. There’s no area for such technology, and requires regular welding and human work”, he explained.
LACK OF LOCAL Ability
When there is n’t a large pool in the first place, Mr. Tan said, it’s also challenging to rely more on Singaporean talent.
” In the past, we actually hired locals, but a lot of them, just halfway through the training, they just quit in two or three months, because they find that the external conditions are very harsh, and they do n’t like to be in the sun and rain all day sometimes”, he said.
ASMI is urging the government to concentrate on attracting locals to the sea sector in order to enable firms find enough employees to avoid ending up.