Review article
Market competitiveness of Croatian seafarers
Emil Marinov
; Vessel Traffic Monitoring and Information Service
Lovro Maglić
orcid.org/0000-0002-7923-0938
; University of Rijeka, Faculty of Maritime Studies Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
Juraj Bukša
; Secondary Maritime School Bakar, Bakar, Croatia
Abstract
Competitiveness of Croatian seafarers can be determined according to the criteria of economy,
competence and numerosity. It is very challenging to assess the quality of education and training as
well as the influence of seafaring tradition in coastal countries all over the world in order to be able to
claim that certain nationality seafarers are more competitive than others. The International Convention
on Standards of Training, Certification & Watchkeeping for Seafarers (STCW) is applied globally with
the aim of having the same quality of seafarers, the only difference being the fact that certain seafarers
acquire knowledge faster and more successfully than others. It is hard to say that the system of education
and training in one country is better than in another because each signatory to STCW Convention should
have a standard education procedure setting the minimum needed seafaring competency. This paper presents an analysis of the current structure and number of Croatian seafarers as well as that of seafarers in other coastal countries around the world, as well as an analysis of the most prominent indicators of competitiveness such as current and the most common terms of agreement and wages. In addition, an assessment of the demand for seafarers in the world and in the European Union has been made as well as the assessed competitiveness of Croatian seafarers on the world market.
Keywords
Seafarer; Competitiveness; Seafarer’s wages; Number of seafarers
Hrčak ID:
140263
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Publication date:
30.6.2015.
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