On 31 March 2017 the manager of the company Stargate Maritime, Master Mariner Andriyan Evtimov, delivered an open lecture in Hall 11 at Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy. The purpose of the event was to acquaint the audience with the prospects and the problems facing the maritime industry. The students had the opportunity to receive competent answers of the questions of interest to them with regard to the state of the market of maritime personnel.