| Abstrakt: |
According to data provided by IMO thousands seafarers jobs throughout the world are reported vacant. Shipping companies are trying to find various solutions to this problem. Going deeper into the problem and discussing it with the owners of shipping companies one more important item was revealed. According to forecasts done by shipping industry a very substantial growth in cargo shipment by sea is expected by year 2010 reaching 600 millions t. only in Baltic. Being cost effective, clean and safe mode of transport shipping industry is developing very fast. New shipping companies appear on the market and the old ones are trying to strengthen their position. Some shipping companies change their owners and shareholders. Often the new owners are not professionals in shipping and they think that to run shipping company is like to manage a milk processing company, for instance. Such policy leads to unnecessary over employment of seafarers, communications problems and finally- accidents at sea. As the result many well educated and highly qualified seafarers decide to leave the fleet. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
