| Seafarers lead an important action in the economy of a country. One of the IMO officers said that" the half of the world would be cold, and the another half of the world would be hungry if no seaman's work". So it is necessary for special protection on the proceedings and action for personal injury during services to seafarer.Seafarer's personal injury compensation has the character of the general personal injury compensation. According to the law basis by which the litigant launched proceedings, seafarer's personal injury compensation could be divided as the personal injury compensation by contract and by tort. Meanwhile which dividing is not unconditional, because in most situations there will be the concurrence of by contract and by tort.There are mainly 3 standard for trial practice in our country about seafarer's personal injury compensation. One is , another is , the other is . Meanwhile, will become effective from the date of September 1 ,2007, the aim of which regulation is to strengthen the management and improve the working quantity and protect the legal rights of seafarer, also to improve the protection of the safety of water traffic and environment. Above mentioned regulation is undoubtedly the advancement of legal protection for the seafarer.Through the civil legal practice, with reference to the legislation of other countries and international convention, we would like to special mention the which was adopted on twenty-third day of February 2006, used reference to the clauses concerned, we put forward our suggestion of legislation for seafarer's personal injury protection of our country.
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