Digital transformation and automation in the shipping industry is resulting disruptive changes to ship design, operations, and manning that aim to enhance safety, efficiency, and the environmental sustainability of maritime logistics. While there is growing research interest in these areas,...

The shortage of seafarers continues in the global shipping market. In particular, the retention of skilled officers has not been maintained. One of the reasons why the number of officers working on merchant ships is because of the working conditions onboard the ship. For instance, there are...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a fairly new philosophy to the shipping industry. The shipping industry, by its very nature, is the most globalised and highly regulated industry of all. Compared to land-based industries, the shipping industry has a long list of stakeholders in its...

The shortage of junior seafarers in China in recent years raises a salient question as to how international shipping companies can improve retention rates among Chinese crews. This issue has become increasingly prominent in the context of a global lockdown resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic....

Nowadays, most shipping companies are aware of the importance of analysing seafarers' work performance. Thus, improving seafarers' work performance or finding out the ways by which seafarers' work performance can be enhanced is becoming one of the decisive factors for the success of any shipping...

The importance of shore leave and Port-based welfare service and facilities (PBWS) for seafarers have been widely acknowledged by the maritime industry and appropriate requirements have been included in Part Four of Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC 2006). According to the Convention, as a...

The 2014 amendments to the Maritime Labour Convention entered into force on 18 January 2017. The primary drive of the amendments was to introduce a financial security certificate which would guarantee payment of seafarers' wages and repatriation costs in the event of abandonment by shipowners....

Cette navigation, à bord d'un porte-containers, mettra l'eau à la bouche à tous les voyageurs cherchant à échapper au tourisme de masse ou aux vols long courriers qui effacent toute notion d'éloignement. Quelques traits insolites des escales, entre Nouméa et Rotterdam, sont esquissés,...

The analysis of tanker accidents shows varied degrees and forms of involvement of local inhabitants at the different stages of specific events. The aim of the paper is to gauge, through a pilot survey, the potential of marine incident information networks among coastal or island populations...

"This volume investigates the ambition of the Red International of Labour Unions to radicalize the global waterfront during the interwar period. The main vehicle was the International Propaganda Committee of Transport Workers, replaced in 1930 by the International of Seamen and Harbour Workers...

Chapter 1: Introduction; HRM in maritime shipping - a framework; The human element; Drivers for good HR practices; Structure of the book; Chapter 2: The structural transformation of the shipping industry; Flagging out and the globalisation of shipping; The shipping regulatory regime; The trend of...

This book contains three Conventions relating to the maritime sector and several documents relevant to their implementation: the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, as amended (MLC, 2006); the Seafarers’ Identity Documents Convention, (Revised), 2003, as amended (No. 185); the Work in Fishing...

"This book sheds light on the nature and causes of the issues and challenges in human resources in shipping and proposes fresh recommendations to manage them. It explains the multiple forces at play, including the global regulatory regime, national institutional frameworks, industrial practices,...

The aim of the dissertation is to shed light on the complex determinants of tie formation. Extant research has linked similarity and dissimilarity (respectively homophily and heterophily) and different proximities types to the likelihood of tie formation in a linear way. However, there are...

Motivation is a voluntary and consistent effort to act in a certain way or to achieve some goals. It is essential and even critical for solving contemporary problems of the human element at sea. Especially those of attraction, recruitment, and retention in the profession, wastage and turnover...

Workplace injuries are a serious public health problem, potentially leading to loss of earnings, medical expenses, disability and even death for working people. Maritime transport workers – seafarers – are exposed to higher risks of workplace injuries than is the general land-based...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a fairly new philosophy to the shipping industry. The shipping industry, by its very nature, is the most globalised and highly regulated industry of all. Compared to land-based industries, the shipping industry has a long list of stakeholders in its...

Climate change is opening new sea routes in the Arctic Ocean. The Northern Sea Route (NSR), along Russia's Arctic shore, is particularly important in this regard. While in recent weeks some shipping companies have pledged to refrain from shipping through the Arctic, due to the environmental...

The analysis of tanker accidents shows varied degrees and forms of involvement of local inhabitants at the different stages of specific events. The aim of the paper is to gauge, through a pilot survey, the potential of marine incident information networks among coastal or island populations...