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Indian Ship Building Gets Boost from Ship Equipment Makers

It's heartening to note that Indian shipbuilding is poised to grow at around 15 per cent from the existing 0.4 per cent currently. India's shipbuilding has grown from Rs.150 crore in 2002 to about Rs.15,000 crore in 2006, according to the Union Shipping Minister, Mr. T.R. Balu. According to some estimates the actual growth would be 30 per cent each year. Mr. Ramesh Singhal, Director, I-Mariti...

The Sea Still Lures Young Persons for a Dream Career ...By Capt. S.K. Anand and Devi Leena Bose

Merchant Navy as a career has always had an exotic appeal among all the students and young community in India. Indians have made a name for themselves in International Shipping Forum on the basis of very talented and hard working seafarers. This lure has always attracted young students to decide on sea as their career option. Though in the recent years, the rush to join sea has ebbed a bit becaus...

Good Shore support ensures smooth sailing of Indian Flag Ships

Managing Indian shipping companies have traditionally been a big challenge. Here is a company that has taken the challenge and proved that it is worth taking. Managing an aging fleet is not an easy thing. It is difficult to attract the right kind of talent to run them especially in these days of stiff competition and the boom in the shipping industry. Senior Vice President of Five ...

“Bring back the 3-month Deck Cadet Course” - “Firebrand” President of METIA, Capt. K. Vivekanand, speaks out to “The Marine World” -

Maritime Education and Training is without doubt the watchword for sustaining excellence and growth of the shipping industry. Capt. Vivekanand who has represented this industry for the past 43 years, responds to an email interview to The Marine World in his inimitable style on maritime education, foreign affiliations for maritime courses in India, and his views on the examination system in India ...

Professional Certificates is a Must for a seafarer to come ashore - Capt. Isbah Syed

As if the current shortage of officers is not acute enough, there is a new way lashing out in which many an officer is looking to settle with a career ashore. There are reasons to believe that there are more opportunities on shore for engineers than deck side officers. Dashing young entrepreneur and erstwhile master, Capt. Isbah Syed who has weathered many storms including ones on shore to bring...

AET Takes Giant Strides On the Way to Become The World’s Leading Petroleum Tanker Operator - By S. Sadanand

A growing force in petroleum logistics, AET operates a young and technologically advanced fleet of tankers to move crude oil and clean products for the world’s oil majors and traders. With operational headquarters in London and regional centers in Singapore, Houston and Kuala Lumpur, AET’s fleet transports crude oil across the globe and performs specialist lightering operations in the US Gulf an...

MOL Sets Sail Campus at Sea - By S. Sadanand

We have heard of ‘Ship in Campus’ for a long time now, but setting out sail as if on a merchant voyage with a shipload of cadets on training is surely a giant leap in the future. Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. (MOL) has launched its training vessel, the Spirit of MOL, at the Tsuneishi Shipbuilding Company in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture. Capt. Birendra Kumar Jha, General Manager, MOL (I) Ltd. Says, ...

K Line Maritime Academy (India) to Train, as Well as Motivate - By S.Sadanand

“We must accept the reality that shortage of officers is going to become more acute with the projected increase of world shipping fleet at a rate of 30%.” Says Capt. Takehiko Ibusuki, CEO, K Line Ship Management (India) Pvt Ltd. He adds, “Our company, K Line has announced its maritime training facility at Mumbai, named as “K”-Line Maritime Academy (India), in keeping with the requirements for qua...

Mumbai – Shipping and Logistics Hub - By Chanderjit Yadav

The Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry had organized a Seminar on 'Mumbai Shipping and Logistics Hub,' on June 27, 2007, 11.30 a.m. at Bombay Chamber Conference Room, Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The seminar aimed at highlighting the perspective of the shipping, maritime & trade fraternity with respect to the “Demand and Challenges” concerning the Mumbai Port vis a vis the ...

Merchant Navy Then And Now - By S. Vijayaraghavan

The author has sailed as a senior officer in the Merchant Navy During the past decade or so, the life of seamen and the shipping industry as a whole has seen a sea of changes. Marine industry has adapted to the ever changing and increased needs of its customers and stringent rules and regulations that come into force from time to time. Communication: The single most important advancement in...

A Few Dollars More Matters At the Lower Ranks - By Mohammed Adnan (Able Seaman)

Unlike officers nakhras, seamen have very few demands. The only reason is that the market is flooded with seamens. I completed my Pre-Sea Training in 2003 and I had to wait for almost two years for a break. But I consider myself lucky the break came when it came. Immediately after completing the required sea time I passed my watch keeping. Life of a seaman is very tough. First, work is hard and...

Miles to go Before I Sleep - By Chanderjit Yadav

In these days of modernism and high competition, shipping companies dish out a variety of services to satisfy their sailors. There is hardly a company that wants to say that they cannot go the extra mile to make their seafarers happy. It would be wonderful if seafarers were being treated so well. But, we also come across instances when the crew is not given so much importance as compared to off...

You can take a person out of the sea But you can’t take the sea out of a person - By Capt Sudhir Anand & Devilina Bose

India’s impressive GDP growth has been attributed to performance of Indian Professionals both in IT and other sectors. It is a well known fact that Indian maritime community had made its mark in international arena long before that and had been a major contributor in Nation GDP as well so these two communities; IT and Marine communities are two major sunshine communities of India. There are man...

For an employer efficiency in terms of Time and Money are Important – Shyam Sunder Sharma

The Marine World also interacted with Mr. Shyam Sunder Sharma, Regional Manager, Delhi, ATZ Shipping Trade and Transport headed by dynamic lady Ms. Zanita Machhado. Mr. Sharma comes forth his views on questions posed by The Marine World readers. TMW: Please give us salient features that attract persons for a career in this industry. Mr. Sharma:Firstly, there are various levels one can en...

Professional Qualifications can give you the edge for Compensation negotiations -Joby Varghese

The Marine World has received thousands of e-mails from various parts of India in the last few weeks from aspirants to the Shipping and Logistics industry. We have interacted with experts in the field for their opinion and suggestions. Mr. Joby Varghese, General Manager Projects at AFL provider answers to a few prominent questions from our readers. What in your opinion is the most compelli...



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