Jobs for seafarers

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JOBS FOR SEAFARERS - GLUT OR GLOOM

BY:

Sanjeev S.Vakil,

Chief Executive Officer,

Hindustan Institute of Maritime Training HIMT)

SATURDAY, 28

TH

SEP 2013 AT NAUTICAL INSTITUTE UK) SOUTHERN BRANCH

TUESDAY, 20

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MAY 2014 AT SEAFARERS CLUB, CHENNAI


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DISCLAIMER:

The views presented in this presentation are of

my own and not the organization I represent.

Most of the information has been as feedback

from the students and Shipping fraternity

including various websites.

Truth is Bitter


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INTRODUCTION

Post sea Training

was set up on

September 1998

Presea Training

campus was set up-September 2003


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JOBS FOR SEAFARERS-GLUT OR GLOOM

The growing shortage of jobs forseafarers has become an issue of globalconcern.

Nostradamus Prediction for Shipping-???

According to the BIMCO/ISF Manpower

Update 2005 - shortage of 27,000maritime officers worldwide wasforecasted by the year 2015.


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CHARACTERISTICS OF SHIPPING JOBS

Characteristic of Shipping jobs is like a Sine

curve peak and depression

How long would be the Recession ???Only answer - shipping will pick up next year.


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CHARACTERISTIC OF SHIPPING JOBS

According to the current scenario only one

statement is going around.

NO JOBS, NO JOBS, NO JOBS


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ALTERNATE ROUTE TO GET JOBS

Agents:-

Few agents place theaspirants on board atan exhobirant fee

ranging from 2- 6 lakhsand that too withoutany assurance of beingable to complete seatime.

292 RPS holders as on1stMay 2014.


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Political Pressure:-

There is a great pressure from the Ministry on

shipping companies requesting to place cadets

who have completed

their Pre-sea training.


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Influence from senior Mariner:-

Many of the senior Chief Engineers and

Masters have their relatives aspiring to join a

vessel and they request the companies which

they serve for

placement.


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Fear Factor:-

Many companies are

under pressure from

Unions and other such

Associations and hence

are bound to provide

the placement underfear


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JOBS BASIS ON MERIT

Campus Interviews

Till 2008 Shipping companies were in race toselect the best requesting the first slot for

selecting the cadets 90% of the cadets were placed in 2ndyear of their

Pre sea Training Course.

The abundance of entry level jobs in shipping has

significantly diminished and the number ofcompanies visiting the academy campuses havedrastically reduced.


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JOB CRUNCH

If the ships are sailing why are there no jobs??

Young cadets curse the shipping industry for it,

but no one tries to find out the reason and try

to work towards providing a solution.


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REASONS FOR JOB CRUNCH

Advertisement:-

Many institutes give misleading and false

advertisement stating 100% jobs will be

provided, high salary, Adventures at Sea etc to

attract young cadets.


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9 institutes in 1998 have grown to 147

institutes in India as on May 4

12 Universities -Maritime Courses

4 Deemed Universities

1 Central University IMU)

4 Shipping Companies owned Presea

Institutes

TOTAL PRESEA - 86

ONLY POST SEA - 61

Institutes are expanding and will be

over 220 by 2020 as DGS has been

allowing to open branches and

considering to lift the ban for Presea

courses.

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136 147

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50

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250

1998 2004 2010 2014 2020

SURPLUS OF TRAINING INSTITUTES:-


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Sl.

No.

COURSE Annual Intake Number of

Institutes

83 years Polyvalent (Dual certification)course leading to B.Sc.

(Maritime Science) Degree

31 1

94 years B.E/B.Tech(Marine )

Degree Course2286 29

101 year Marine Engineering Course for

Graduates [GME]1690 23

112 years Marine Engineering course for

Diploma holders [DME]356 8

122 years course for Marine under

Alternate Training Scheme (ATS)68 2

134 Months Electro-Technical Officers

ETO) Course 720 7

ALL INDIA CAPACITY OF PRESEA TRAINING- AS ON 1STMAY 2014


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ANNUAL INTAKE CAPACITY OF STUDENTS: ZONE WISE

COURSE EASTERN WESTERN NORTHERN SOUTHERN TOTAL

1 year Graduate MarineEngineers (GME)

140 780 60 710 1690

2 years Presea for

Diploma Holders ( DME)24 40 - 292 356

Alternative Training

Scheme course- 20 - 48 68

4 years B.E/B.Tech

(Marine ) Degree Course326 600 40 1320 2286

1 year Diploma in

Nautical Science ( DNS)230 1517 360 1206 3313

3 years Degree B.Sc

(Nautical Science)160 365 - 650 1175

3 years B.S (Maritime

Science) Dual course- 31 - - 31

4 year B.S

(Nautical Technology) - 80 - 120 200


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COURSE EASTERN WESTERN NORTHERN SOUTHERN TOTAL

B.Sc (Maritime

Hospitality studies)- 40 - 40 80

Electro-Technical

Officer course

(17week)

120 280 - 320 720

6 Months General

Purpose Rating (G.P)520 1760 544 2160 4984

6 Months certificate

in Maritime Catering

(Saloon Rating)

160 756 - 160 1076

NCV Deck Cadet

(Dredger)- 80 - - 80

18 days Orientation

course (OCCP) - 80 80 400 560

ANNUAL INTAKE CAPACITY OF STUDENTS: ZONE WISE


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COURSE

Intake

Capacity

Admitted intake

2011 2012 2013

1 year Graduate Marine Engineers

(GME) 16901245 1001 934

2 years Presea for Diploma Holders

( DME) 356238 144 79

2 years Alternative Training

Scheme course ( ATS)68

23 23 14

4 years B.E/B.Tech (Marine )

Degree Course2286

1775 1490 1450

1 year Diploma in Nautical Science

( DNS) 33132815 2447 1453

3 years Degree B.Sc(Nautical Science) 1175

846 546 611

3 years B.S (Maritime Science)

Polyvalent (Dual )course 3123 0 21

4 year B.S

(Nautical Technology)200

80 79 79

PRESEA COURSES ADMISSION IN LAST 3 YEARS


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COURSE

Intake

Capacity

Admitted intake

2011 2012 2013

NCV Deck Cadet (Dredger)80

40 79 79

4 months Electro-Technical Officer

( ETO) Course760

60 247 323

6 Months General Purpose Rating4984

4728 4469 4674

B.Sc (Maritime Hospitality studies)

Degree course40

35 32 25

6 Months certificate course inMaritime Catering (Saloon Rating)

1076

904 920 808

18 days Orientation course (OCCP)560

95 68 95

ADMISSION OF PRE-SEA COURSES IN LAST 3 YEARS


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Number of vessels not increased proportionately to

Institutes.

Few Maritime institutes today are more interested in quantity

than quality.

Owners moving to cheaper Nationalities- Angola, Ethiopia

Slowing down of the growth of World economy.

Fluctuating market conditions in the industry.

Indian delegation to STCW 2010 recommended compulsory

training berths on board ships, but this was not accepted by

others governments.


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Negative Propaganda- Seafaring profession

Media IMU Story / Agents

Piracy Issues

Criminalization of Seafarers

Wages in Land based jobs I.T sector in par

with Shipping Tough Examination system in India in

comparison to UK / Australia etc.


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Remedy to overcome

Job Crunch


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GOVERNMENT INITIATIVES

Government must take up the placement issue as a Nationalprogram and buy training ships and provide training berths basis onmerit.

Government not to grant permission for new institutes till the existingbacklog is cleared

Strict action to be taken by Institutes run unprofessionally

Comprehensive Inspection program ( CIP)

Initiatives like Section 406 & 407 of MS Act -15% of crew shall betrainee crew from Nautical /Engineering branch

Coastal Tanker sea time reduced from 18 months to 15 months

Government should also resolve the tax issues

Government to pump in money in the Human resources andalso research work in the field of Maritime Education andTraining, rather than investing on Infrastructure.


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MARITIME INSTITUTES RESPONSIBILITY

Maritime Institutes should produce better Qualityofficers and Ratings in comparison to othercountries.

Join hands with other Institutes to plan the intake Discipline and Loyalty to be inculcated among

Cadets.

Voluntarily Reduction of intake by the training

institutes for courses- DNS and other courseswhich has churned out thousands of unemployedyouth.


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SHIPPING COMPANY SUPPORT

Shipping companies must come forward andemploy trainees directly from campuses.

Shipping companies must recognize trainees

as future officers. Todays Surplus of cadets and ratings would

become tomorrows surplus of Officers.

Long Waiting period of Officers would result inmaking them look for other companies.


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CANDIDATES AND SEAFARERS RESPONSIBILITY

Candidates need to develop right attitude to goto sea and provide loyal service to thecompany.

Seafarers should become Mentors androle-models for the younger generation.

Seafarers should encourage institutes who arecommitted to training and ban going toinstitutes who just sell certificates and arebringing down the name of the country.


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The name of great institutions like IIT, IAM has reachedthe Top not because of their Infrastructure and facilities,but because of the students passing out from suchinstitutions have brought in revolutionary changes in the

industry they work. Thus, students passing out from ourInstitutions have the greatest responsibility of provingthe world that Indian officers and ratings are the bestand to achieve so they need to excel in their attitude,

discipline, academic knowledge and above needs to besincere, so that Indians become one of the mostpreferred nationality in the world

CANDIDATES AND SEAFARERS RESPONSIBILITY


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MEDIA RESPONSIBILITY:-

It is unfortunate that Media has created a negativeadvertisement on Shipping- Whether it is Piracy orcriminalization, the amount of mileage the TV channelsare interested to raise their TRPs is high and damaging

the growth of this industry, as the general public hasnow started considering that shipping is no moreadventurous and is now the last option to be chosen byan individual. It is high time that all the stake holders

could being the positives of shipping in the lime light forthe growth of this sector.


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PROSPECT FOR FUTURE GLOBAL

DEMAND/SUPPLY OF SEAFARERS


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ESTIMATE ON THE DEMAND FOR SEAFARERS

Calculation on the demand for seafarers in 2010,assuming empirically that a back-up ratio is 50 %,the demand for officers is 445,055 and for ratings648,914.

Therefore the annual average growth rate innumber of the world fleet between 2010 and2020 was set at 0.7%.

With this figure, the number of the world fleet andthe demand for seafarers in 2020 was calculated.

Officers 477,208 Ratings 695,795


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PROSPECTS FOR SUPPLY OF SEAFARERS


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FORECAST OF THE WORLD FLEET IN 2020


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FORECAST 2020

The McKinsey report projects global cargo growth at 5 -7 % on 3% global GDP based on current World economicoutlook for 2010-2020.

India can aspire to strong growth in Officers and Ratings

by 2020.The share of high-quality Officers can increasefrom 6.3 in 2009 to 9.0 per cent in 2020, whereasRatings could see a moderate growth from 7.5 per centin 2009 to 9 per cent in 2020 by significantly improvingtheir quality. This implies an additional 65,000 Officers

and 45,000 Ratings taking in to consideration annualattrition, which will require expanding annual trainingcapacity from 5,600 to 15,000 Officers and from 4,600Ratings to 9,000 Ratings.


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CONCLUSION

Though the forecast for 2020 brightens the

outlook, the big question remaining is how to

handle the present Maritime Industry slump

and to improve the situation. Though the statefor the young yet-to-graduate cadets who

dont have anywhere to go looks GLOOMY in

todays scenario we must not lose hope. Buttake solace in the fact .


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FOR EVERY DARK NIGHT, THERES A

BRIGHTER DAY AHEAD.


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