Today, with the gradual implementation of the WTO provisions, the seafarers assigned to this service industry, which originally dealt with the international maritime industry a long time ago, will face a new test. As a Chinese seafarer who has served in this industry for many years, I y hope that the relevant government departments will not miss this rare opportunity to break away from the conservative concepts, in line with the pioneering and enterprising ideology, the reform and innovation of a large sum of money, as soon as possible to formulate and amend the relevant laws and regulations, and take the initiative to adapt to the international shipping industry as well as the world's seafarer's labor market operating practices, and to converge with them, so as to make the international seafarer's labor market, which China should dominate, to compete for it. In this way, it is beneficial to the country, and at the same time, it can also benefit the people.
So, this industry and the international market in the end there is how much distance it, in my personal opinion, must be elaborated from the following three aspects.
First. National policies and regulations are not coordinated, which is the most fundamental and important. At present, China's foreign regulations in the management of the maritime industry, is still the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation decree that foreign enterprises are not allowed to intervene or limited, conditional participation; and in the labor intermediary is even more refused to the door, replaced by domestic intermediaries. This originally in order to protect their own interests and invariably lead to the monopoly of the industry, the results of how, statistics show that every year, the number of Chinese expatriate seafarers exaggeratedly close to 30,000, and this 30,000, really involved in multi-nationality seafarers, I'm afraid that less than one-tenth of the team, the vast majority of them are a full set of people, the form of low prices to compete for some of the Southeast Asian shipowners market, and the vast European and American market is difficult to The vast European and American markets are difficult to enter. Not only do the figures reflect the international status of Chinese seafarers, but on the other hand, the impression of foreign shipowners on Chinese seafarers and their treatment shows that the status of Chinese seafarers is behind that of the Philippines, India, and Eastern Europe, and is only a little bit stronger than that of several poor countries in Africa. This situation is obvious in several major domestic seafarers' intermediary organizations, such as MASES (Beijing China Shipping), INMATESECO (Dalian International), COSCO (COSCO). I think this situation is not commensurate with China's current image and international status as a great power. The fundamental reason is that the country has long been too much control in this field, do not pay attention to the development of the cause. Looking back to our competitors, the Philippines can be said to be the oldest exporter of seafarers, so far the annual export volume of seafarers to remain at 200,000-300,000, occupying an absolute position in the world market. According to the information obtained from contacts, it is easier for their crews to go abroad and embark on ships, and all they need to do is to register with some well-known international seafarers' intermediary organizations. And the function of the state is only manifested in the supervision and management; a large number of labor force emigration, not only alleviate the employment pressure in the country, but also increase the country's foreign exchange reserves and tax revenues, while also enriching the lives of ordinary people, it can be said that this is a one-two punch, the name of a good thing. And then look at the rising stars of Eastern European countries, such as Poland, their seafarers, whether from the search for shipowners, or for documents, are much easier and faster than us. From the shipowners' point of view, whoever can provide crew of good quality and whoever is efficient and responsive will use their crew. Therefore, the relative lag in policy and some regulations reflecting the self-protection, self-enclosed consciousness, so that China has lost a lot of opportunities to interact with Europe and the United States with a developed maritime industry, it can be said that in the seafarer's labor market in these areas, the Chinese seafarers have almost no foothold. In my opinion, China does not improve the foreign policy in this area, not the introduction of competition, not to break the monopoly of the industry, not to form the flow of talent. One day it is difficult to enter the mainstream market in Southeast Asia and the vast market in Europe and the United States. In addition, it is worth mentioning that, if China wants to push its own seafarers to the international market in the future, the relevant international organizations such as the ITF (International Transport Federation) or SIU (International Seamen's Union) and so on sooner or later to deal with some of the relevant in the treatment of labor, rights and interests of the international conventions and norms are destined to be complied with. Because if you do not contact it, do not integrate into it, do not act according to the rules, you will be excluded, and will not get the corresponding international status.
The second thing is that the current domestic intermediaries are in dire need of consolidation because they are too unregulated and all have some degree of underhandedness and the corruption that comes with it. I believe they will be in a difficult position once foreign intermediaries join them in the future. In terms of management style and service consciousness, the current domestic intermediaries are fundamentally different from foreign ones. I have dealt with several large domestic intermediaries, I have a deep feeling that the original crew is the first productive force, is the main body of value creation, can also be said to be the intermediary agencies in the eyes of the "cash cow", however, in fact, most of the intermediary did not correct this relationship, but to "master" posture of self-importance, "the master", and so on. However, in reality, most of the intermediaries do not correct this relationship, but to the "master" of the posture of self-esteem, in the management of how you want to do how to do, without the slightest consideration of lawfulness and the feelings of the majority of the seafarers; in the service is far from international practice, for example, over the years, I have never seen which intermediary to the crew to show the crew of the crew of the contract of employment signed between it and the foreign owners as well as the relevant terms of the welfare of crew members, and even more so, I do not know what our real! "In other words, we don't know how much they "sold" us for. This is really not commensurate with the international practice of formal intermediaries to set out their prices clearly. This practice of covert operation has greatly jeopardized the interests of seafarers. At present, most of the domestic seafarers agent common practice is, on the one hand, to collect the shipowner to pay the crew management fee, on the other hand, it is privately with the dispatch of the crew to sign a contract, only 50% - 70% of the original contract wages paid to the crew, this practice and the international common shipowners to give how much, the crew will take how much of the principle of the difference is far from the harm is clearly manifested in the crew's opinion, but there is no place to complain, in the ship! The harm is clearly shown in that the crews have strong opinions, but have no place to complain, and work negatively on the ship, trying to find ways to find money, which inevitably leads to all kinds of crimes and accidents; the shipowners are dissatisfied with the ship, and once there is a problem with the operation, which causes losses to the shipowners, they will consider choosing the crews with high price from other countries to replace them; in addition, the prevalence of the expatriate seafarers signing the false payrolls, which blinds the international inspections, as well as the increase of the complaints from overseas in recent years, which causes a bad impact on the country's image and unnecessary international trouble. Furthermore, due to the shortcomings of the management system and the lack of a monitoring mechanism, crew members are forced to invite guests and pay bribes to officials in order to board ships; and the personnel of intermediary organizations also make use of their rights to extort and blackmail crew members in an ostentatious manner. Over time, this has resulted in the impression that Chinese seafarers are of poor quality, do not work hard and do not seek advancement in the eyes of foreign shipowners.
Third, the comprehensive quality of the seafarers themselves needs to be improved. Having contacted seafarers from the Philippines and Eastern Europe, I feel that there is still a big gap between us. This is manifested in three aspects, one is the lack of English communication skills and ship safety resilience. I feel that this is also an important reason why Chinese seafarers are difficult to enter the international market, compared with seafarers in other countries, this is our "congenital defects", although Chinese students are ahead of them in professional theoretical learning, but in the industry of English or the practical application of daily English is still out of touch with the reality of the crew's safety and emergency handling ability is not enough. emergency handling ability is insufficient. Secondly, the sense of professionalism and obedience is poor. In the past, we seldom dealt with the outside world, and our sense of "ownership" was too strong, but now it is different, we have to earn other people's money, we have to obey their rules, listen to other people's management, which is the "international practice". This is the "international practice". Being responsible and hard-working is the most basic quality of international seafarers. Third, learn to work with multi-national crew ****, enhance the adaptability. In the real expatriate ship, make good with foreign leaders, foreign colleagues of the relationship, especially important, because each other competition, will inevitably appear a variety of problems, only to maintain a harmonious working and living environment, get along well, will complete the task.
In summary, despite the fact that there are so many thorny difficulties, and that the cost of solving them may be high, and that the efforts made may not be effective in a short period of time, there is really no better way to go. The fact that we have succeeded in bidding for the Olympic Games and successfully entered the WTO is sufficient proof that the Chinese people, relying on their own strength, are able to overcome the obstacles on the road ahead. In the face of the present and future international seafarers labor market opportunities in our favor, we can no longer be at a loss, only *** with the efforts of the real work, on the one hand, to change the government functions, on the other hand, to improve the quality of seafarers themselves. Only in this way can we get things done and reverse the current unfavorable situation.
When writing the title, the heart will be a little drift. The company's business is a very important part of the company's business," he said, adding that the company's business is a "very important part of the company's business.
There is one thing that comes to mind. Perhaps the competition is fierce, perhaps the camera is always on the yellow earth, black earth even their own tired,
Want to make some fresh play, a TV station to find an ocean-going company, a "want to shoot a reflection of the spirit of the seafarers of the television product
", so that the company is grateful to be grateful to be promised to sponsor and to take care of the grandpa-like. The company has arranged for the TV scriptwriters to go on an ocean-going ship to collect material and experience life. The scriptwriters were on board the ship, and the ship docked at the pier to enjoy the exotic scenery. A few months down, the "sea
Tour" ended successfully, the writers left the ship, and then closed the door to hold a few days, out of a stack of things called scripts, sent to the ocean-going company to
For advice. The ocean-going company took a look, what is a seafarer? All of them are smugglers, sellers, pornographic books, red-light districts, and even drug addicts and drug dealers
. It's not easy to find a character who is often in deep thought, but still keeps his head down and wonders if the one at home has put a branch of red apricot sticking out of the wall
. The whole script is just short of the line: I'm a seaman, who am I afraid of?
Naturally, the TV series was not filmed, and Oceanic did not have so much money that it had to trample on itself, or hurt itself. The writers were used to the idea that only a crime
would be dramatic and sellable, and stimulate the people's calloused nerves, which were getting thicker and thicker. So, they put in
which corner of the hunt, or even or happened to their side or happened to them to steal the people and things to come. This is not
Seaman. However, looking through the literature, especially the great works, about seafarers are really few and far between. Foreigners such as Lawrence splashed
Ink rain in the miners, countrymen such as the comedian Zhao Benshan parody of the blind are in the hundreds of millions of people staring at the stage with a bamboo stick. A seafarer can
Can't help but ask, when is it our turn to show our faces?
Perhaps it is a submerged dragon in the abyss, the world does not know much about seafarers? In China and abroad, it is not uncommon to find writers who came from seafarers' backgrounds and then went ashore to become writers
They understand seafarers. They understand the seafarers, but almost all of the big works written have nothing to do with the sea. Perhaps they have a hard time, but always inevitably make people
feel that their reluctance to touch the sea experience, like the ex-prisoners who do not want to tell or others mentioned in the number of stayed in the situation
shape. Those who know don't want to talk about it, and those who don't want to talk about it.
It's better to have a few than a lot, that's what we seafarers comfort ourselves with.
What is a seafarer? In fact, we seafarers ourselves know best. Magellan, Columbus, and Zheng He are not seafarers. They were just
explorers, or navigators, who sailed the seas. Although we seafarers consciously or unconsciously have the slightest idea of bringing
them into the fold, we know in our hearts that these are two different things. Seafarers are seafarers, not "family". A seafaring man is a man who
has to earn his living on the sea, and earns his wife and children a living through hard labor on the sea. It is often said that farmers face the soil
back to the sky. Seafarers? Feet on the side of the "ground" is still wobbly, occasionally stepped on the dirt, like a car refueling like
Riveting hard to suck the "ground", grasp the time to return to the body's vitality. Wang Shuo wrote a masterpiece, the title is half of the flame is half of the
sea water, although not written seafarers, we seafarers can make him the title of righteousness. There is an old sailor, in the crew did more than ten
Months, to home, to the family of that desire to fry him, how much want to return to land to make their own recuperation. However, when he thought
of his three children, two of whom are in college and one in high school, and his wife, who was laid off from work, it was hard for him to get his legs off the ship. The seafarer's brother did the math for
He figured that to support his wife and children, he'd have to stay on the boat 365 days and nights a year. So, eating lobster and drinking
With "Napoleon" and other foreign wine is not seafarers, although the seafarers live in the sea of shrimp soldiers and crab generals, and often stepped on the foreigners
Land, but they can not swing that. At night when they think of their wives and children, they pour a glass of old wine on the flower
Raw rice is eaten at a leisurely pace.
The seafarers also have a sense of dignity, which is centered on the bridge, and on the flag that flies at the ship's transom.
When wearing a
uniform and standing on the bridge with binoculars, his home is not in his thoughts, the worries of the world are not in his thoughts, and his eyes are only left with the front
and the world is at his disposal. At this time, the king and the generals, wind, rain and snow, as long as he is willing, he can be put aside to do what I do,
Doing his or penetrate the storms or sailing through the rapids and shoals of the hook. On a ship, the captain is king, president and ambassador. The authorities of the port
port countries, no matter how high you are, as long as you are willing to go on board the ship will not fall out, the captain meets with you, is the diplomatic
reciprocity. So, the ship can't be offended, it has the dignity of the country on it.
However, the prestige and dignity of seafarers lies mostly in theory, in the childhood pride of their sons and daughters
. The captain of the ship is also good to do, people hear that is an official, if it is the chief engineer, the big pipe wheel and so on, it is repeatedly explained, people
still confused, the old ghost (rail)? The second ghost (rail)? There is such a position? In the end, how much of an official? The world only
recognizes the director and section chief. So we seafarers just intentionally or unintentionally in front of their wives and children to talk about how the ship is so big, how the sea is so
how wide, how they overcame one devilish storm after another, to get a little admiration from their own families, like a family singing karaoke
OK.
This is a layer of windowpaper, a poke and then broken.
Two
"Fall in love with someone who doesn't come home." It was a popular song, but never for seafarers. A seaman's woman would never sing such a
song. The singer on the stage is singing new lyrics about sorrow, and the young boys and girls off the stage don't know the taste of sorrow, the whole thing is a mirage.
Real life
Life, seafarer's woman, "fell in love with a man who does not go home", is full of pain, blood and tears.
Seamen's women have a thousand reasons to vent their grievances, but every time they rushed to the harbor on the ship, what they saw and heard, grievances and
turned into pity. They saw their own man stepping on the steel plate all day long, like a hot pot on the ants.
"All my life I have thought about women the most and touched them the least." One seafarer put it this way. Without women around
the seafarer is lonely. The hardest thing for a man at sea to deal with is also loneliness, and the lonely man then spends all his free time thinking of home and his
wife and children. "Loneliness and outstanding literary creation form an unbreakable bond"; "If you review the spiritual history of mankind,
you will find that loneliness has always been the companion of outstanding thinkers, philosophers and even scientists." Scholar-writer Li Yuanluo has this pithy
assertion. However, he does not understand seafarers. Seafarers are not thinkers or philosophers; they are too common, and their solitude produces then
a primitive yearning in their temperament. Their loneliness so that their emotions are washed clean and clean, love will be used exclusively, with a deep, but also
with a sensitive and fragile.
Sunset, the sea and the sky at the junction of the clouds turned pink, seafarers will love to pad slippers sitting on the bow of the ship, this time of loneliness
the heart is not wide, only tolerate their own home, but also specializing in missing the woman. Day after day, that emotion will be distilled and accumulated into a
flood of blue water, canoeing also, a handful of wash dust also, the seaman's woman will feel the sea's width. However, the devil also
tiptoed over. Because emotions accumulate for a long time, just like the higher the water level, the more fragile the dam becomes, and sometimes, a small
ant hole, a small rat hole, may make the dam burst a thousand miles. At gatherings, people always ask carefully what is a seafarer's pet peeve
. It's eating fish that can't be turned over. The seafarer then smiled, that look love flip strike. What is the most taboo? The seafarer's heart is clear
Clear. So, the seafarer's woman is also unusually strong, wait for the in-laws, coiling lessons, roll up the sleeves to take care of.
Halls, bars, they are not that idle, the second is not willing to go to stimulate the nerves of the sea of men. Seafarers heart solid, on the
boat a small ingestion of a ingestion of a drink of old wine, before disembarking, listen to a brother's unintentional advice: "Buddy, take it easy,
don't revenge like." The company's main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers.
The seafarers are all good cooks. In the boat hard work they, into the door did not think to enjoy a good time, more think
What is to make up for the wife and children. After leaving the ship without any specialties, they practiced cooking.
The real seafarers are not seasick, but can come up with a few small dishes.
"I'm not sure if it's a good idea for me to be a part of this, but I think it's a good idea for me to be a part of this," he said. When human civilization has progressed to the point where emotions can be spilled with the wind
When it comes to the naturalness of the heavenly way, this ancient song signals that there is still a true love on the water. The seafarer's emotion is sensitive or fragile
It is all true and simple.
As for a sailor who learns that his father will die soon, he cuts off a strand of hair and mails it to his bedside, which reminds us of the Southern Song Dynasty
Mother Yue's stabbing of the word, which is too grand, seems not to be our seafarer's business, not to mention it.
Three
People originally live on land, hard to hold to the water, can be normal? This is the truth, but we seafarers
don't like to hear it. Because it sounds like pity. It is true that seafarers are a vulnerable group in terms of numbers, and there are only a few million of them in the world,
not to mention that they make up three-quarters of the world's workforce.
But no one says small seafarers. I'm afraid no one can underestimate the energy of seafarers.
Now people are talking about what the global village, the world has been so small that the village of this end of the voice of the village to hear clearly, as if
Buddhist world just a small mouse, as long as the finger pointing, the village of the east of the bread and butter on the west end of the table.
Without the seafarers, however? I'm afraid that people in the east end of the global village would say that the puttanesca in the west end is sour. The world would have collapsed by
three quarters, and the Earth would have been as remote as the universe. The city worker still occasionally points to a tall building and says, "I built this. The seafarer can point to something on a shelf in a supermarket and say, I shipped this?
Seafarers have never felt remarkable. Nowadays, people who are well fed and clothed are so keen to feel a sense of achievement that the value of life seems to have shifted away from
money and money and towards performance. What about seafarers?
One old machinist, the day he retired, came down from the ship to the company by himself, one door at a time, into the cover killing
children, and then quietly boarded his own train home (in fact, it is not intended to be low-key). He looked at the city where the company was located and
shed a tear, not of resentment, but of disenchantment. Can this old mechanic be accomplished? Or is he an old factory worker, maybe
there will be a tea party or a thermos flask with "Honorable Retirement" written on it. This is what seafarers do, they face loneliness at work and even more so when they leave the sea. In her hometown to pick up the old mechanic's daughter-in-law, looking at a deflated bag has been born Chinese hair Gong
gong tears, she for the Gong Gong so lonely left the sea for which he fought all his life. But she did the math in her heart, Gong Gong in
wind and waves around the earth sailed 50 times! The sea is really big, so big that we seafarers have no trace of our life's struggle.
And on land? The footprints of the Yuanmou Yuan people in Lantian are still visible after thousands of years.
The seafarer's lack of fulfillment is also demonstrated by the phrase: "Apart from being able to drive a ship, what else can I do?" As if the easiest thing under the sun
children is to drive a ship. They never ask people, "Can you drive a boat? So, in the "logistics" more and more developed, the taste of life more and more to
highly sophisticated development of the moment, people more and more feel that the seafarer's no taste, life lack of interest. This is no one's fault, it is our seafarers cocoon
self-fettered, in the vast sea to build bridges, so that high-quality life fast flow, and in the end to move a stone to stone their own feet.
The wind and rain together, said the seafarers brotherhood between the deep friendship, that strength is what difficult buddy to you to carry.
These words can only
Said at sea, the seafarers' family's difficulties are often on land. This time we seafarers have no way. The human condition, other people on land
Spider weaving web like the relationship to create a well-connected, invincible. Seafarers have also shown themselves to be incompetent in this area, and it is extraordinarily difficult for seafarers
to get things done at home.
But human society is constantly progressing. From the agricultural society to the industrial society, and then to the knowledge-based economy and society, people recognize the farmers
people, workers, intellectuals. With greater openness between countries, one day, one will recognize seafarers, both geographically
and mentally. At that time, the work about seafarers is a big production, because there are three-quarters of the world's background; that
Then "seafarers" has become a concept, shelved to the Nasdaq, can not help but not a hot hand, doubled it a few times.
Close to the seafarers Understanding the seafarers Concerned about the seafarers
Looking at the development of the global economy, no one can ignore the enormous contribution of the maritime industry, which is responsible for 90% of the international trade traffic. As the Secretary General of the International Maritime Organization has said, "We live today in a society supported by a global economy that could not function without ships and maritime transport." While we are y proud of the maritime industry, we naturally cannot ignore a special group of people - seafarers. Let us, together, go close to seafarers, understand seafarers and pay attention to seafarers. Occupational characteristics of seafarers: driving a ship across the sea, seafarers are a special occupation, the practitioners have a fairly high professional quality requirements. Their occupation is technical, independent, teamwork, arduous and risky. These characteristics, determine the seafarer not only to have a strong body, skillful professional skills, but also have a good psychological quality, strong ability to adapt to the environment and to deal with emergencies and resilience. Seafarers job division: seafarers occupation according to job level division, divided into senior seafarers and ordinary seafarers two categories. Senior seafarers are engaged in ship driving, management and other technical requirements of the work, training cycle is long, high cost, high treatment; ordinary seafarers engaged in general technical work, training cycle is short, quick results. According to the division of professional nature, there are two professional positions, which are specialized in nautical technology (also known as ship driving) and engine engineering technology (also known as ship engine). Navigational technology (ship driving) seafarers can be divided into: captain, pilot (first mate, second mate, third mate), duty sailor; engine engineering seafarers can be divided into: chief engineers, engineers (chief stewardship, second stewardship, third stewardship), duty engineers. Seafarer's professional knowledge: different positions of seafarer work, need to have different content, level of professional knowledge to support. Nautical technology should master: nautical science, ship cargo, ocean transportation business, marine meteorology, ship communications, marine instrumentation, water craft, shipping laws and regulations and other theoretical and practical knowledge of the main courses. Engine engineering class occupation should master: ship and ocean engineering, electrical engineering, engine engineering materials, ship main propulsion power plant, ship auxiliary engine, ship electrical equipment and system control, engine maintenance and repair, engine automation and other knowledge. In recent years, new technologies and equipment applied to ships are emerging, shipping management mode, management concepts are constantly updated, as well as the degree of ship automation is increasing, which requires seafarers to have higher knowledge of disciplines, such as management science, computer science, network knowledge and so on. Professional quality of seafarers: the characteristics of seafarers' profession determine that seafarers need to have higher comprehensive quality, which generally includes: corresponding scientific and cultural knowledge and professional knowledge, good physical and psychological quality, excellent language expression ability, excellent adaptability, solidarity and teamwork, appropriate interpersonal skills, keen observation. Decent work for seafarers: In February this year, the 94th General Assembly of the ILO held in Geneva adopted the international "Consolidated Maritime Labor Convention, 2006", which makes provisions for seafarers in terms of their working environment conditions, medical care, welfare, social security, wages, vacations, and living and working conditions to guarantee that seafarers are able to have decent work. Our country, like other countries in the world, has provided many guarantees for seafarers' decent work. The vast majority of China's sea-going vessels are able to meet the requirements of international conventions, and the wages of seafarers are much higher than the average wage level of other types of workers on land.