Pelaut dunia yang terlatih saat ini masih kekurangan. Dengan banyaknya pemesanan kapal akhir-akhir ini. India tampaknya menangkap peluang in dengan baik, dengan mendirikan sekolah tinggi pelaut yang.
Bagaimana bangsa kita menagkap pelauang ini? ============================================================= This article has been sent to you by Capt. Darul M ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ============================================================= Source: blThe Hindu Business Line (http://www.blonnet.com/2008/11/03/stories/2008110350990600.htm) Crew shortage — a distress signal for shipping Not enough trained crew? The new ships to be delivered could very well lie idle as ship managers may not be able to find enough competent crew-members to man them. Santanu Sanyal Reports have it that Gateway Terminals India Pvt Ltd (GTI), the APM Terminals-Concor joint venture that owns and operates a modern container terminal at Jawaharlal Nehru port, recently announced the launching of its Talent Development Centre on its campus. Equipped with state-of-the-art training facility, the training centre, the reports suggest, is to provide hands-on experience of work in the terminal environment for developing world-class maritime professionals. A sizeable investment must have gone to set up the centre and create the training facilities, and that at a time when the global financial crisis continues to bite and rumours of shipowners and operators in financial trouble are swirling in the market. The last few years witnessed an unprecedented level of investments in manpower training by many individual owners as well as others in several countries and these investments were made against the backdrop of a boom in shipping, with ship owners having placed huge orders for new buildings with the world’s major shipyards, fuelling speculation that the demand for crew will virtually skyrocket when the shipyards start delivering the ships. Turbulent scene With the shipping bubble, which saw dry bulk freight rates and asset prices hit record levels a few months ago, now truly burst and reports of cancellation of new building orders pouring in from shipyards, one might wonder if the projected demand for crew will really materialise. There have been reports of casualties also. A Ukraine-based bulk carrier outfit is the first to go down and reports suggest that the list of potential casualties in not short. Also, as a Korean shipowner has warned, extended charter party trains, with multiple sublets of a single vessel, makes serial defaults a distinct possibility. The problem is compounded by the fact that the bankers who were friendly to shipowners till recently have now become rather less friendly. Anyone hoping for leniency in repayment schedules is likely to draw a blank. There is another problem. There is a lurking fear that if the present situation continues, many shipowners in distress might choose to walk away from their contracts with the crew. Some may even use bankruptcy legislation to avoid paying what they owe to others. If past experience is any indication, in a situation like this, even the biggest and best-established businesses may disappear overnight. Some analysts have expressed apprehension that the weeks ahead might see dozens of crew stranded in various ports around the world, thousands of miles away from home, and without any money to buy a plane ticket. The question all this throws up is: will it be worthwhile to make investments in training if money is tight and shipping markets continue to be hit by a cyclical downturn? The answer is yes, even as the shipping industry frets over the prospects of large-scale new building cancellations. Daunting shortage The reason is simple: there may be fewer newbuildings but there will be even fewer new competent seafarers if training programmes get hit. How the industry is going to man those ships that do actually get delivered remains a major concern. It is feared that ships could very well be lying idle as ship managers will not be able to find enough competent crew to man them. With an estimated 4,00,000 seafarers and 45,000 new officers required to man 10,000 vessels, crew shortage remains a daunting and worrying prospect. Philippines initiative The Philippines is a major supplier of crew to world shipping and the manning industry in the Philippines, according to a report, has urged ship-owners to work with it on a national basis to develop seafarers for the future, the way Japanese ship-owners have done now for many years. According to a report in Lloyds List, the representative bodies from the manning industry in the Philippines are going out to the villages to explain to teenagers the benefits of a career in the maritime industry. In Singapore, with much larger focus on shore-based careers, both the authorities and industry are trying to reach out to young people through various programmes. The International Maritime Organisation Secretary-General, Mr Efthimios Mitropoulos, said recently that his organisation proposed to launch a worldwide campaign to bolster the image of the shipping industry. 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