U.S. Adds 16 Maritime Training Centers Amid Shipbuilding Push

The U.S. Maritime Administration has designated 16 additional maritime training institutions as Centers of Excellence, expanding a federal program aimed at building the nation’s maritime and shipbuilding industries workforce.

The new designations bring MARAD’s Centers of Excellence network to 48 institutions operating across 87 training facilities in 28 states and territories. MARAD said the centers collectively train about 58,000 mariners, apprentices and students each year.

Among the newly designated institutions are the University of Michigan’s Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, Northwest Maritime Center in Washington, Chapman School of Seamanship in Florida, Bunker Hill Community College in Massachusetts and Webb