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From low water on the rivers and difficulties hiring workers, to the costly fallout of inflation, leaders of the inland industry pulled no punches in describing the challenges that face their industry at a recent Marine Finance Forum organized by Marine Money in New Orleans on Nov. 30. Among the highlights: Finding workers will be a long-term problem. "People will be our biggest headwind going forward," said Lance Sannino, president, Enterprise Marine Services. The challenge will be "how do we bring new folks into the industry. We've relied generationally on families to push the business and that is ending." Training workers will be essential. "We're not going to pay our way out of this," said Mike Ellis, CEO of American Commercial Barge Line. "Our industry has a history of being a cycli- cal business and one thing that gets cut in a down market is training, and we've done a disservice by not training through down times. We've all learned a lesson that we must continually train. If we try to pay our way out, we'll just be taking people from other competitors and not fixing the overall issue of how to bring people into the industry." |