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Philippines 211,000
China 165,000
India 120,000
Ukraine 77,000
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Russia 65,000
Poland 40,000
FIG 2.5: MANPOWER SUPPLY TRENDS OF INDIAN SEAFARERS[6] maritime studies like oceanography, maritime
history, maritime law, logistics and supply
40400 chain management and related areas as
82300 2000 shown in Fig 2.6.
46600 (h) Maritime industry has very high global
72100 2005 manifestation in all aspects of its operations,
YEAR and there is an urgent and compelling need
53200
75800 2010 to augment pool of high quality seafarers in
right quantities, at the right time. Maritime
61000 education, training and research should
76200 2014 now be aimed at improving the quality of
maritime education and skill sets through
Officers high levels of standardisation across India.
Ratings
(i) Significant increase is predicted in the demand
(d) In recent years, the ships have become for Indian officers in the future, especially in
technologically very much advanced and specialised sectors of LNG, LPG, Very Large
the knowledge and skill sets required to Crude Carrier( VLCCs), and oil & chemical
man and operate these complex ships have tankers. While China may continue to train
accordingly undergone radical changes. more number of seafarers, the phenomenal
Shipping is now a knowledge based and growth of Chinese shipping industry is unlikely
skill driven industry more than ever before, to allow too many officers for global supply.
making the role played by training institutes, Therefore, India and Philippines will continue
administration and shipping companies in to be major crew supplying nations in Asia in
grooming these seafarers fit for the job, very the foreseeable future and policies need to be
significant. framed accordingly.
(e) Piracy and criminalisation of seafarers have FIG 2.6: TRENDS PRE-SEA TRAINING IN INDIA[7]
made the maritime industry less of a choice
for best of the Indian talent to opt as a 4400
career. Further, most of the seafarers, more 3281
so the officers are choosing to quit sailing 2658
and find alternate employment ashore within 2477
6-8 years of their sea career as against 15-20
years in the 90s. This has created an acute 4719
shortage of senior level officers. Although 3741
the size of the world fleet has increased 3128
considerably, the supply of quality seafarers 2214
has not increased proportionately. Shorter
career span of seafarers have made this 760
challenge even more acute as shown in Fig 60
2.5 above. 247
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(f) The Ministry of Shipping has taken a number
of steps to meet this challenge. Presently, 4984
there are 131 approved Maritime Training 4728
Institutes in India, imparting pre-sea and 4469
post-sea training to maritime personnel 4674
(Directorate General of Shipping).
1076
(g) Indian Maritime University (IMU) has also
been established as a central University 904
under Ministry of Shipping to promote 920
maritime education, training and research 808
and also facilitate other emerging areas of Capacity 2011 2012 2013
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