Study On International Seafarer Market And Maritime Education

With the rapid development of the world economic integration, international economy and trade is mounting up with full speed, which accelerates mostly the development of shipment and seafarers. The supply of seafarers from developed shipping country decreases apparently, and the developed country enrolled seafarers from the developing shipping country. This trend prompts the international exchange and the international labour market for seafarers .China is the biggest developing country in the world, which has a population of 1.3 trillion and is rich in the resource of labour. Since the reformation and open policy carrying out, China improves her political and economic position in the world. She has also becomes a great shipping country and a commissioner in ISO. While the quantity of the oversea seafarers and the share of the world seafarer market is very low, which is not proportioned to the great power of population and shipping.The seafarer export market is a stable market relatively. The demand of senior-seafarers is increasing. Many new seafarers go into the world seafarer market every year. With the " developing country supporting more and more seafarers, they will face great chance. On the other hand, they will have to face great challenge from some developing country such as Filipino and India. The synthetic makings of them is the key to the seafarer competition. This paper analyze the present situation and the future of the international seafarer market, and also analyze the status quo of maritime education. In order to adapt to the situation of seafarer market, we should improve the level of maritime education. According to our country's status quo, we should also enlarge the scale of seafarers and improve the market occupancy to make our country a big seafarer export country.