Program Trains Next Generation Of Maritime Workers

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The port of Baltimore is one of the largest of its kind in the country. Fourteen thousand people owe their livelihoods to coming and going of ships at our docks.
To work at the port you need special training and certification, and that can be hard to get. With the thousands of people working at the port, it’s a workforce that is getting older.
But now, within sight of the port in Cherry Hill. The New Era Academy is the only public high school teaching the maritime t