Cash ‘not answer to crewing crisis’ 23 March 2007 Lloyds List PAYING “top dollar” seafarer salaries does not guarantee loyalty and is not the answer to the industry’s crewing crisis, according to a panel of experts, writes Rajesh Joshi. The way to redress the problem is to foster lifelong “contracts...

Greg Hayden from California, offers us his insight as an engineer a few years back in a recent Marine L list post... "1960 I shipped out in the fcsle, got my Original Thirds March 1966. Mid year 1967 I got a Temporary Second, my Permanent Second in 1968. Temporary First, 1969. Permanent First 1...

Funny. I have never heard the Japanese complaining of crew shortages. Yet they are actually doing something about, it instead of blowing hot air and crying for attention. - Martin MOL Training Vessel SPIRIT OF MOL Launched Tokyo July 2, 2007 - Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. yesterday launched its first t...

Crew recruitment in state of crisis By Denzil Stuart, 11 July 2007 Lloyds List CREW recruitment, training and retention is no longer a problem — it is in a state of crisis, according to Ole Wikborg, director of the Norwegian Hull Club. Speaking at a recent Nordic marine insurance seminar organised b...

Union goes head to head with owners By David Osler, 17 July 2007 Lloyds List NAUTILUS UK — the British officers’ union — has criticised what it brands shipowner and flag state pressure to introduce greater flexibility between deck and engine departments, and between officer and rating grades. The is...

Shipping lines must be allowed to hire foreign crew to tide over the manpower crisis The Hindu Business Line, Shubhra Tandon, N. K. Kurup 22/07/07 One of the major issues Ms Kiran Dhingra has been trying to tackle ever since she took over as the Director-General of Shipping more than a year ago is t...

Capt. Harman Sandhu offers some insight from Canada in a recent entry to this Marine L email list... "In my opinion there is no shortage of officers in the merchant fleet any where in the world. Otherwise no seafarer would be at home trying to find employment. The shortage is of cheap (inexpens...

Training the trainers 30 July 2007 Lloyds List THE industry is facing a serious manning crisis, without a doubt. It has not appeared suddenly, like a tsunami, but has been forecast for many years, not least by the International Shipping Federation-BIMCO studies and their five-yearly updates. These, ...

IMEC report sheds light on officer crisis David Osler, 2 August 2007 Lloyds List SHIPPING’S officer shortage has now reached “formidable” proportions, an unpublished report from the International Maritime Employers’ Committee suggests. Some shipping companies are even recruiting officers that had be...

Below is another article I received by email from a friend, its from the Business in Vancouver, Issue #853 - February 27-March 6, 2006 B.C. shipping trade issues distress signal Krisendra Bisetty The province’s marine industry is in danger of running aground in an increasingly shallow labour and tal...

Mark Wilson, in the Canadian Sailings May 08, 2006 edition follows up on the above article and writes... Get serious about human resources, marine forum told Triple-A approach needed: attract, advance, attach Rick Bryant, president of the Chamber of Shipping of British Columbia, told a recent forum ...

MARK WILSON, in Sailings Magazine, March 06 2006 edition writes... Forum looks at greying of B.C. marine workforce Manpower shortfall looming The greying of British. Columbia's marine workforce and the threat this poses to a now-vigorously expanding sector of the B.C. economy will be the subject of ...

From Lloydslist.com, September 25th 2006
Recruitment shine dulled by tarnished image

SHIPPING’S poor image means it will not attract its share of the best and brightest young people to ensure quality in the future, senior industry officials told a World Maritime Day parallel event in Singapore.

The topic of the day lately or it seems, is the issue of crew shortage. All over the industry and the media, even the mainstreams papers, I hear of this crew shortage this and crew shortage that. I had committed to "paper" my opinions of this shortage in my article of last year "Cries...

Having an Avatar is a bit of trend in the online world. It is a graphic that represents you online. It could be your picture, or it could be something like a toilet bowl or superman icon, whatever you want. Mine, as you can see, is the ship on the left. <----- On this bulletin board, I have uploaded...