Are there many German seafarers nowadays?
Germany is one of the world’s largest suppliers of container ships, many of which are chartered to companies all around the world. The Port of New York and New Jersey has as many as ten German vessels a week. A typical German ship has two to six officers from Germany or another European Union country such as Poland. The other crewmembers are Filipinos, Kiribatis and other South Pacific islanders, Eastern Europeans and people of other nationalities.
