Organizational stages of training of marine specialists in the system of continuous professional education

one of the main conditions for the functioning of maritime transport is the safety of navigation. Therefore, graduates of a maritime university are required to meet a number of requirements related to the ability to navigate in any difficult or emergency situation, quickly make competent decisions, ensuring the least risk of losses. The main task of a modern maritime university is to ensure a high professional level in a developing society, changing labor market needs through effective training and high quality of the educational process of continuous training of personnel. This article examines the process of organizing professional training for specialists in the maritime industry on the basis of the Federal State Educational Institution of Higher Education «Admiral Ushakov Maritime State University», which includes such main stages as secondary, secondary vocational and higher vocational education, postgraduate training, and retraining of specialists. The authors establish and describe characteristic relationships in the structure of training: school-college-university-additional vocational education. The article focuses on cooperation with maritime enterprises and companies, which allows one to prepare for upcoming professional activities. Based on the analysis carried out, the basic principles of continuous training of specialists of seafaring per-sonnel and the sphere of management of maritime activities are identified. Within the framework of the described stages of continuous education on the basis of a university, the process of managing the educational space is studied, taking into account the functions of the activities of educational subjects and the integration of the content of professional training. As a result of conducting and analyzing a survey of crew members of sea vessels, the authors came to a conclusion about the feasibility and effectiveness of the described structure of professional training of specialists in the maritime industry in the system of continuing education.