碩士 / 國立臺灣海洋大學 / 商船學系 / 104 / Taiwan, a typical island country surrounded by seas, is situated in a pivotal position of East Asia's shipping network, which endows it with the advantages of developing maritime transportation. Over the past decades, maritime transportation has played an important role in Taiwan’s rapid economic development. Shipping companies of Taiwan have very outstanding performance in the history of global shipping industry.
According to statistic report of Taiwan’s Ministry of Transportation and Communications, the average age of Taiwanese seafarers is over 45 and of Taiwanese Seafarer Rating is over 50. One of the most urgent challenges of the development of Taiwan’s shipping industry is to face the shortage of Taiwanese seafarers, especially Taiwanese seafarer rating. Through reviewing related literatures and conducting interviews, the study has revealed these problems.
This study aims to improve the quality and quantity of Taiwan’s seafarer ratings through providing constructive advices for the government, marine companies, and seafarer training institutions of Taiwan.
In contrast to all existing studies focusing on seafarer officers, the paper focuses on Taiwan’s seafarer ratings. By using the approach of Semi-Structured Interviews, the research is based on interviews with 17 employees who directly deal with human-resource affairs in Taiwan’s marine shipping companies. Through the interviews, the investigation collected and analyzed those marine companies’ needs and challenges of hiring seafarers, especially the seafarer ratings.
These interviews show that the senior seafarer ratings such as Boatswain (Bosun) and Fitters have dominant influence on the maneuvering and maintenance of merchant ships. Therefore, Seafarer Rating is playing a significant role for shipping companies and maritime industry of Taiwan.
The shortage of Taiwan’s seafarer ratings has indicated an increasing gap in experience and skill.
It’s a great waste of marine educational resource that Taiwan’s graduates from vocational marine high schools have rarely chosen to work at sea as seafarer ratings these years. Ironically, the students of Seafarer Rating Course, who provide steadily talents for Taiwan’s marine shipping industry, don’t receive any financial assistance from the government or marine shipping companies.
The final suggestions are proposed as follows:
1.The government and marine shipping companies of Taiwan should provide more subsidies and opportunities of Maritime Practice for the students of Seafarer Rating Course.
2.In order to make Taiwan’s seafarer training more effective and efficient, the training facilities and devices of Taiwan’s seafarer training institutions should be upgraded
3.Seafarer rating’s training courses of safety awareness and practice should be improved.
4.Taiwan’s government should conduct re-assessment of competency for seafarer ratings in terms of the existing standards for seafarer officer. Since the academic test is not enough to evaluate the competency of seafarers, practical and technical tests are necessary additions in the process of re-assessment.
5.Most importantly, the study suggests that the government reform the requirements of subsidy eligibility for seafarer training. In order to reduce the waste of marine education resources, the government should make sure the subsidies in relevant training are only applied for seafarers who actually work at sea.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/104NTOU5728009 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Creators | Chen, Kuang-Yen, 陳光彥 |
| Contributors | Tien, Wen-Kwo, 田文國 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 140 |
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