Lack of qualified specialists in the sphere of marine transport is still a relevant problem irrespective of the recession and reduction of staff in numerous companies. Development of intermediate vocational education would be able to help solve the problem. As per the experts’ opinion, maritime colleges and technical schools graduates are demanded more than those of higher educations. Besides higher percentage of them stay s in their profession. Nevertheless, the number of graduates of institutions of intermediate vocational education is several times less than that of higher education institutions.