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Industry – Maritime Seminar
Manpower Planning
Shipmanagers’ Perspective
Capt. Navin Passey
Chairman, FOSMA
Managing Director,
Wallem Shipmanagement (India) Pvt. Ltd.
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Manpower Planning
Global Shipmanagers’ Perspective
CONTENTS
1. Five Wise Questions
2. Global Skills Shortage – Cause & Effects
3. The Way Forward – Critical Success Factors
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Five Wise Questions
WHY ?
To maintain Demand & Supply balance.
To facilitate planning of Career Path from grassroots level.
To bolster seafarers’ social wellbeing, perception in
public opinion and personal professional pride.
To make “Seafaring” a “Career of Choice”.
All above, to build a highly skilled, motivated and
dedicated work-force as the bedrock of marine
transportation.
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Five Wise Questions
HOW ?
By accurate prediction of swings in world trade,
their effects on world tonnage and demand for
seafarers.
By investment in creation of captive pipeline for
supply of future officers – Structured Cadetship
Programs.
By creating awareness of importance of “seafaring
profession” on the value chain of marine
transportation and world trade.
By recognition, respect, remuneration, rewards and
commitment to continuous value addition.
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Five Wise Questions
WHEN ?
NOW is already too late !
As long as there are consumers there will be world
trade, as long as there is world trade there will be
ships, and as long as there are ships they will need
skilled manpower.
People move cargoes, not ships, and not stock
markets.
It must be recognized that Manpower Planning is a
long term business; linking it to vagaries of stock
markets is commoditization of our “Seafarer Assets”
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Five Wise Questions
WHO ?
Every stakeholder in marine transportation
Regulators – ILO, IMO and National Administrations
Ship owners, Ship managers, Ship operators
ITF and affiliates
Industry Bodies – G4, IMEC, IMMAJ, InterManager, Nautical
Institute
METs
Shipping Finance Sector
Underwriters
Classification Societies
Research Groups e.g. Warwick University, MAIB, etc.
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Five Wise Questions
WHERE ?
Seafaring is, historically, espoused in underdeveloped
economies.
Seafarer breeding grounds have, historically, moved away with
industrialization and increase in per capita GDP of crew
supplying countries.
Following in OECD footsteps, the major crew supplying
countries - Indian Subcontinent, Eastern Europe, Philippines and
China are fast becoming unreliable and expensive.
Reconnaissance of alternate crewing markets, establishment of
training infrastructure and development of crewing resources
need to be considered with some urgency.
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Global Skills Shortage
Cause & Effects
CAUSES
Radical changes in world economy.
Resultant mercurial growth in world merchant fleet.
Speed and volume of increase in world merchant
fleet not matched by production of skilled seafarers.
Shipping industry taken by surprise with enormity of
officers shortage.
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Global Skills Shortage
Cause & Effects
EFFECTS
Consequences of “People Asset” negligence
grossly under-estimated.
Effects of reversal of Demand & Supply equation.
Depletion of skills and competence.
Industry forced into dangerous compromises.
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The Way Forward
Critical Success Factors
1. Grass-root Recruitments
2. Training & Best Practices
3. Retention
4. Image of Shipping
making “Seafaring” a “Career of Choice”
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The Way Forward
Critical Success Factors
Grass-root Recruitments
Legislation for mandatory carriage of cadets
Investment in Creation of additional Global Cadet
Training Capacity
Identification of upstream crew supplying sources
Emphasis on English Language proficiency
Allocation of nationality quotas
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The Way Forward
Critical Success Factors
Training & Best Practices
Modernization of existing training infrastructure
Training for Trainers
Best Practices
Continuous Competence Management
Consolidation of Private Sector Investment
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The Way Forward
Critical Success Factors
Retention
Paradigm shift from “Contract Labor” to “Long Term
Careers”
Competitive Wage/Benefit Packaging
Better Bonding
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The Way Forward
Critical Success Factors
Image of Shipping
making “Seafaring” a “Career of Choice”
Industry campaigns in public media
Career awareness campaigns in schools & colleges
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Manpower Planning
Global Shipmanagers’ Perspective
Thank You !
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