A Shipboard Museum to Highlight American Commercial Maritime

Public Presentation: A Shipboard Museum to Highlight American Commercial Maritime by Rik van Hemmen.        

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Rik van Hemmen has been involved in American maritime all his professional life. Maritime strength has created strong beneficial trade boosted to an incredible level by containerization. However, American maritime, both naval and commercial, is suffering from high vacancies and low recruitment. 

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His presentation focuses on both aspects: the use of an early pioneering container ship as a floating museum to tell the maritime history, spell out maritime career benefits, and attract recruits to maritime. He will describe an alternative approach to raising maritime awareness by focusing on the industry as it exists today.

Museum ships are an extremely difficult financial proposition and it is unclear if they actually have an effect on the general population’s awareness of maritime. Most museum ships refer to past history and the public is not aware that maritime continues to be a vital, but generally ignored, component of national and New Jersey's wealth, and continues to offer individual opportunities to enter the middle class. 

Navesink Maritime Heritage Association

Navesink Maritime Heritage Association is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to engaging Eastern Monmouth County with maritime and water related historical, skill building, environmental, and recreational activities, and encouraging responsible use of the Navesink estuary through its Discover, Engage, and Sustain approach.

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