Skills, Careers and Diversity Strategy

This five-year strategy, updated in January 2026, demonstrates how PSS is leading on skills in the port sector, focusing on all the elements that support a strong, future-proof, highly skilled workforce. This includes understanding the long-term career needs for both new entrants and the existing workforce, promoting the sector by developing skills which allow port workers to maximise their employment opportunities and helping train the workforce to stay safe.

The PSS Skills Strategy 2023 – 2028 document was the first skills strategy by the organisation, launched to detail how PSS would reposition itself over the five years as the main port skills organisation, working alongside other wider maritime organisations.