New vocational training to the Danish ports

A new port and terminal program provides trained workers in the Danish port companies. The program is offered at AMU North Jutland, EUC Northwest Zealand.

Freight moved increasingly from the roads onto water. It creates new and more complex needs for planning and handling of goods in Danish ports. A new port and terminal program provides skilled workers with technical and logistical skills to the port companies that handle the goods. Education Minister Troels Lund Poulsen has approved AMU North Jutland, EUC Northwest Zealand to provide the training. It is offered in both Jutland and Zealand in order to ensure geographical diversity and proximity to the companies that the program is aimed. Minister of Education welcomes the offer of the training. "The new training can help to create growth and jobs in all parts of Denmark. Maritime has always been one of Denmark's commercial hallmarks. For a small country like Denmark's trade with foreign countries a clear prerequisite for growth and prosperity. Therefore, we ensure that we continue to have the necessary technical and logistical skills to carry on a Danish maritime tradition, "says Troels Lund Poulsen. Ports and terminal education is an education that both target young people who have the desire and interest to work in a port, and against experienced port employees who will have more skills and a journeyman's certificate as proof of their ability. It covers an industrial area, which employs 2,000 port employees, but a serious lack of skilled staff. There is initially expected an intake of about 30 students annually. Source: UVM.dk