Factors influencing job satisfaction among merchant seamen

This paper explores the occupational and extra-occupational sources of job satisfaction in merchant seamen. Data were collected using a survey instrument from a sample of 302 seamen, both officers and crew. Factors determining variance in levels of job satisfaction are examined using a multiple regression technique. Several factors were found to have a significant impact on the degree of job satisfaction, particularly shipboard status and marital status. Collectively, the independent variables predicted over 63% of the variance.     

Sea daddy: an excursus into an endangered social species

This paper examines the stereotypic image of the American merchant seaman. The persistence of this stigma has made attempts at higher social status for seamen problematic. A typology of seamen is constructed on the basis of two dimensions: primary identification either with seaman subculture or shore-side society; and response to the stigma of the occupation. Ninety-five interviews were conducted with seamen, union officials, and relatives of seamen. Participant observation is used to supplement the data obtained in the interviews.     

Triple doses: a view of seamen's health

The health of seamen of all nations has long been a subject of concern. In this paper Brian Nolan stresses the specific social and economic situations of life at sea which produce their own injury, disease and death, and highlights the need for greater concern and actions by unions and employers to lessen the present high cost of seafaring to seamen.     

Maritime legislation: new areas for safety of life at sea

This study reveals areas where IMO regulations of safety of life at sea can be improved upon. After examination of 5389 mortality and 3559 accident cases of UK seamen and 6878 fatalities of worldwide seamen, it finds fatalities due to personal accidents on board ship constitute ～90% of all mortality cases. Therefore, prevention of personal accidents should be given a higher priority. It reveals also that accidents involving coastal (domestic) ferries were another concern in the safety of life in shipping, e.g. in 1996 alone more than 2562 fatalities occurred in this sector. As a case study, the nationalities of 364 deceased seamen in bulk carrier disasters (1990–1998) are identified. Fatalities to British and worldwide seamen are based on the data obtained from various sources. However, fatalities to seamen working on board open registry ships are the best estimation, based on the information available to the authors.     

Maritime legislation: new areas for safety of life at sea

This study reveals areas where IMO regulations of safety of life at sea can be improved upon. After examination of 5389 mortality and 3559 accident cases of UK seamen and 6878 fatalities of worldwide seamen, it finds fatalities due to personal accidents on board ship constitute ~90% of all mortality cases. Therefore, prevention of personal accidents should be given a higher priority. It reveals also that accidents involving coastal (domestic) ferries were another concern in the safety of life in shipping, e.g. in 1996 alone more than 2562 fatalities occurred in this sector. As a case study, the nationalities of 364 deceased seamen in bulk carrier disasters (1990?1998) are identified. Fatalities to British and worldwide seamen are based on the data obtained from various sources. However, fatalities to seamen working on board open registry ships are the best estimation, based on the information available to the authors.     

影响中国船员走向国际劳务市场因素的研究

提高船员的整体素质和参与全球船员劳务市场竞争的能力,可以向海外市场输出大量优质的海员,加快中国海员进军欧美劳务市场的步伐,进一步增强我国海员走向国际劳务市场外派行业的竞争力。     

Maritime industrial relations: concepts and consequences

British merchant seamen cannot legally strike while their ship is at sea or in a foreign port: neither could they, until 1970, legally strike while working on ships in UK ports. Difficulties of union organization, conservative union leadership in the period spanning the turn of the century and the 1914-18 war, the authority of lawful command, and an over-supply of seamen are some of the factors that have made industrial relations in the British Merchant Navy unlike those of any other industry.     

Maritime industrial relations: concepts and consequences

British merchant seamen cannot legally strike while their ship is at sea or in a foreign port: neither could they, until 1970, legally strike while working on ships in UK ports. Difficulties of union organization, conservative union leadership in the period spanning the turn of the century and the 1914–18 war, the authority of lawful command, and an over-supply of seamen are some of the factors that have made industrial relations in the British Merchant Navy unlike those of any other industry.     

中国远洋船员总体心理健康状况的研究

中国远洋船员总体心理健康状况较普通人群要差,心理症状阳性检出率远高于普通人群,总体心理健康状况不容乐观。导致目前我国远洋船员心理健康水平较低的主要原因有:工作上的压力;海上特殊风险产生的不安全感;单调、寂寞的船员生活及相对艰苦的工作环境;信息闭塞与社会支持匮乏;人际交往的局限性以及人际关系的不协调;事故后心理得不到及时有效的调适;性需求得不到满足;生物钟节律经常被破坏,等。     

海员避碰行动各指标相关性的多元回归分析

在获取大量海员避碰行动样本的基础上，通过建立多元线性回归的数学模型，分析了转向时机、转向幅度、目标船舷角、会遇两船的船速比等4个指标与目标船最后通过距离之间的相关性大小，结论对海员避碰行动决策有一定的参考价值。由于样本是在对海员进行航海模拟器训练中获得的，从而说明了用航海模拟器来研究避碰行为的可行性以及STCW公约强化模拟器训练的必要性。     

海事行业综合门户网站——中国海事服务网

<正>中国海事服务网(英文简称CNSS)成立于2006年,是集行业资讯与用户应用体验于一体的海事行业综合门户网站。经过几年的发展与完善,目前中国海事服务网已实现全方位覆盖整个海事行业,设有船员、船舶、航运、港口、游     

Some unsettling maritime terms: the interpretation of found, cargo, ballast and voyage

This paper examines the meaning of four common maritime and admiralty terms: found, cargo, ballast and voyage . These terms are problematic because their definitions are elastic which makes application of the terms difficult. The four terms are important because significant legal consequences are attached to each of them, particularly for seamen on flags of convenience (FOC) and crews of convenience (COC) vessels in US ports. The findings of the author are based on personal experience as well as research conducted in preparation as an expert witness in several maritime cases in both the US District Courts and in Louisiana State Courts, personal interviews with seamen on FOC/COC vessels, interviews with legal and economic experts on the international maritime industry and officials of national and international labour organizations.     

《中国海员》——关注海员文化生活

《中国海员》杂志面向海内外发行，为双月刊，刊号为ISSN1005—9067／CN31—1034／C，其读者主要是水运系统的150万职工和水运企事业单位。杂志内容反映水运系统企事业单位的发展，以及水运企事业单位职工的工作和生活，包括远洋海员、国内船员丰富多彩的文化生活、海内外见闻、海上航运安全、水运企事业经济发展等，主要栏目有“港口阳光”“海内外”“交通人征文”“生活潮”“国际航运专递”“当家人论坛”等等。     

Labour relations in the Hong Kong merchant navy

This paper discusses the role of ratings' and officers unions, and that of boarding-house keepers, in relation to the recruitment and supply of seamen for the Hong Kong Merchant Navy     

某船冷库降温困难的原因分析与思考

根据某船冷库降温困难的故障现象及故障发展过程,介绍了轮机部人员对故障的排除过程及对故障原因的探讨与分析,指出轮机人员工作上的疏忽是造成故障的根本原因。通过对此次故障原因的思考,提出了加强船员管理,建立有效的船员工作考核机制,对保证船舶的正常营运具有重要的意义。     

宁波船舶工业:机遇与对策

通过对走锚船的受力分析,得到走锚船走锚时的运动轨迹。这对驾引人员在对船舶安全控制和港口管理人员对港口水工建筑物的安全管理方面有着积极的参考价值。     

基于未确知AHP的船员疲劳因素定量分析

提出了船员疲劳因素分析的指标体系，建立了基于未确知信息的层次分析模型。基于三值互反标度法及相关变换原则，得到属性判断矩阵，并给出了其一致性检验方法和权系数的简明计算公式，得出了各个子因素对船员疲劳因素的影响系数，为建立科学、合理的评估体系提供了理论支持。     

Factors Controlling the Development of the Aquaculture Industry in New Zealand: Legislative Reform and Social Carrying Capacity

The New Zealand aquaculture sector, consisting of mainly mussel, oyster, and salmon farmers, has been expanding over the last two decades. The increasing demand for water space for marine farming has prompted a process of community consultation and legislative reform resulting in the Aquaculture Reform Act 2004. Despite efforts to develop more effective legislation and improve the application process, marine farmers have often been relatively unsuccessful at gaining the water space that they desire for the expansion of the industry. However, social factors such as landscape and amenity values, recreational and navigational use, and alienation of public space are the most frequently cited reasons for the refusal of marine farm consent applications. An analysis of resource consent decision records from the past decade demonstrates this conclusion that the main factor limiting the further expansion of the aquaculture industry in New Zealand is the social carrying capacity, in the context of a period of legislative transition.     

红旗漫卷万重浪——记中国海员工会

<正>1921年4月6日,由孙中山先生亲笔题写会名的中国海员工会前身"中华海员工业联合总会",经过海员工人运动先驱苏兆征、林伟民等人的不懈努力,冲破重重阴霾,率先在英国殖民统治下的香港宣告正式成立,不仅很快就成为强烈动摇帝国主义在中国殖民统治的重     

融合电子海图的AIS综合模拟器的研究与开发

船舶自动识别系统(Automatic Identification System,简称AIS)是一种新型的船舶辅助导航设备,国际海事组织已通过AIS强制性安装议案。为加强远洋船员对AIS设备操作的培训,利用计算机网络开发了AIS综合模拟器。实现对AIS信号采集处理后与计算机局域网络的信息转换,并且将电子海图与AIS显示完全融合在一起。该模拟器的研究与开发,不仅减少了设备投入,节约经费开支,提高培训的效果,而且适应了航海技术对AIS的发展需求,使教学具有超前性和先进性。