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Maritime Shipping - Essays and Articles. Maritime Shipping Article List.
Following articles may provide some information on how the life at
sea affects those working onboard and what they come across in the
process of performing their duties.
A ship master's views on merchant navy as a profession.
Feelings and observations of a seafarer when his ship reaches U.S.A. after a long voyage.
From Ship to Shore Job - Describes how my resume web site won me long awaited maritime shipping related shore job.
The requirements for the shore job by seafarers need additional skills, some of which they use to a lesser degree during their career onboard ships: Administration, management and advanced (or may I call it tactful) communication skills being few of many.....................
Why serving on merchant ships has become so frustrating-just few factors among many!
Some thing strange that I came across when serving onboard. Was he a ghost on ship or my imagination?
The writer, a signal man onboard an Australian Navy ship, describes his experience when he went up a ships flag deck and felt the presence of someone else.
I can figure out similarities in the above account and my experience as described in my article
Ghost onboard or was it not ?
Considerations advocating need of resume web site for merchant navy employees.
Now that you have a web site for your maritime shipping related concern, it's time to show it exists on WWW
Guidance for young men joining merchant navy. Information for GP3 onboard merchant ships and the training needs.
An article by a seafarer analyzing factors behind a seaman's urge to shift to shore employment, even though serving at sea has advantages of it's own.
Warnings issued by the International Trade Federation ( ITF ) in response to large number of frauds affecting seamen in securing employment onboard merchant ships.
I have to start out by saying that we did'nt mean to steal the elephant. It just sort of happened........
Seamen and seafarers come across interesting incidents when they go out on foreign lands. An interesting overview of a misunderstanding.
Many people ask me what is the worst storm I have been in. Of course typhoons and hurricanes are more dramatic than what meteorologists call a "mid-latitude cyclonic depression", but the latter are far more frequent and can be just as lethal.....
I have always thought it unfair that seamen have such a bad reputation for womanizing. They are supposed to have a girl in every port. Until recently they worked in an exclusively male environment, and are mostly shy and reserved around women........
A piece of prose full of light humor that will keep you smiling throughout.
This article provides information for Pakistani young men interested in joining merchant navy as deck cadets. The idea is to tell them in clear words what is in the future from their intention of joining the sea to the end of cadet ship so that they may not feel trapped in a profession which is, no doubt, very rewarding but for only those whom it suits.
When one remains at sea for long time, he loses his contacts, his qualities to deal with people, expansion of his view of the world. He serves for months at time on ship and goes back on leave for short duration.
He earns good salary and is able to provide better living conditions for the one’s he cares about. A seaman’s own life do not get benefits of luxuries within his buying power, he instead works like a machine – neglected , in many cases and dealt as a money making machine. Over time the seafarer forgets himself and points his planning towards others only...........
I frequently receive emails from young men seeking information about merchant navy.There are articles listed in the Essays and Articles Section which the new comers will definitely find useful.Here they may get an introduction to merchant navy and what it is all about to be able to decide for them whether this highly skilled and unique profession suits their life style.
Are you not interested in providing few drops from the sea of your
experience for the benefit and guidance of
fellow seafarers and the one's leaping forward to join merchant navy? We need your help in putting forward
some words of advise that certainly you can provide just by spending few moments for others...........
A source of repairing our minds!!! Something other than sea and ships and employment worries - our life....
The interest in WWW is certainly beneficial to serving mariners in job search and otherwise for general info about the sea and the merchant navy. Seamen must present themselves in the open market by using internet. Having a resume web site is not a big deal, but how many of us are presently having one?.....
During our sailings we come across many incidents that bring back smiles and memories of good old days.Description of a shore leave that never remained an ordinary outing. Humour? but sure in good taste.
Revelation of selfish attitudes, where personal interests does not see the safety of others.
Human life is no more than a business deal. We are not talking about criminals, it is about individual
self gains and compromising on human life in daily life.
It is a common observation that seamen though getting paid much higher than land lubbers do not succeed in saving for their retirement effectively. Seamen, most of them, do not think of their retirement while they are working onboard vessels until very late in the career. I have seen large number of seamen who did not save for the future and there career at sea came to a halt abruptly without sufficient notice, causing them and there families difficulties in managing day to day living.
Working ashore or at sea – difference is not much so far as the working conditions and hours at duty are concerned, especially if one is employed in transportation sector of which shipping is a part.
...Look forward, back, left or right, it's all water, salt water... Up there is the sky, ..and during the night, while looking at the stars, they try to recollect the sweet memories of their life... I just dream of my mother's 'Xitt-Koddi' (rice-curry)...
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