{"id":79,"category_id":4,"image":null,"title":"Tapping Potential of Global Demand for Seafaring Officers: An Agenda for Bangladesh","slug":"tapping-potential-of-global-demand-for-seafaring-officers-an-agenda-for-bangladesh-1","author":"M Nazmul Hassan","publisher":null,"description":"

Abstract<\/strong>
\r\nThe growing shortage of seafaring officers fuelled by the rapid growth of global fleet opened up opportunities to tap the potential of global demand of seafaring officers for populous and unemployment abundance countries like Bangladesh. Besides, the numbers of HSC passed students, having potential of becoming seafaring officers, are also on the rise in Bangladesh every year. By producing more seafaring officers out of these youngsters and marketing them effectively for manning the commercial fleet around the globe, Bangladesh could have reaped benefits of earning huge remittance and thus ensured her socio-economic development. To examine the potential of the global demand for seafaring officers and to formulate agenda for Bangladesh, the researcher looked for the answers of the primary research question as to what is the current status of Bangladeshi Seafaring officers and how she can maximize the accruing from the global demand. The study also examined present manning situation and supply capability of seafaring officers in Bangladesh. Finally, the paper recommends courses of action for Bangladeshi seafaring stakeholders to tap the potential from the global demand for seafaring officers.
\r\nKeywords:<\/strong> seafaring, potential, fleet, demand and agenda.<\/p>","file":"\/files\/econtents\/647564373a2f6bmj-article6-jan-2018.pdf","downloaded":0,"created_at":"10\/1\/2023 9:53 PM","updated_at":"30\/5\/2023 1:49 PM"}