In the next few years the shipping it will need a greater number of officials and less municipalities



BIMCO and International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) have announced that in 2025 in world-wide the mercantile fleet there will be almost 150,000 officials in less of the necessary one, deficiency that currently it is of about 16.500 officials (2.1% in less regarding the question) and that - second the two international shipowning associations - is destined to grow of others 147,500 units within that date.

The previsional data is included in the Manpower Report, the last quinquennial relationship on the occupation in the introduced field of the shipping last night from the two organizations to London near the center of the International Maritime Organization (IMO). The study explains that this deficiency will not increase because of a reduction of the number of officials, that instead is previewed in increase, how much because such increase will not be however in a position to satisfying the increase of the question of officials.

According to estimated how much, last year on the 68,723 ships of world-wide the mercantile fleet 1.647.500 marine, of which 774,000 officials and 873,500 municipalities worked, against a question estimated in 1.545.000 marine, of which 790,500 officials and 754,500 ratings. In the period between the 2005 and 2010 number of officials it has grown of +34%, while in last the five years the increase has been of +24%. In particular, in the 2005 total number of marine it was of 1.187.000 units, of which 466,000 officials and 721,000 ratings, while in the 2010 total number it was gone up to 1.371.000 units, of which 624,000 officials and 747,000 municipalities. The document realized from the BIMCO and the precise ICS that the estimated number of marine for 2015 is not directly comparable to those indicated in the quinquennial relationships precedence as are changed to the used definition and the data modalities of collection of in order to draft the relationship.

The last relationship of specific BIMCO and ICS that the staff insufficiency characterizes in particular some categories of officials, between which those of the officials of car with functions directives and of officials for specialistic ships which chimichiere and the ships for the gas or which liquified natural gas transport of liquified oil.

The document explains that, even if in last the five years the field has completed remarkable steps ahead in increasing the recruitment and the levels of formation and in reducing the rate dispersion of the staff, for example withholding the marine ones characterized and increasing the number of years of job in sea, the increase of the question of marine could generate a serious deficiency in the necessary number of officials to world-wide the mercantile fleet.

If the deficiency of officials is destined to grow, the relationship evidences that vice versa currently there is a surplus of about 119.000 municipalities (15.8% in more regarding the question), with a question for these professional figures that a limited increment of +1% about from 2010 has recorded.

The relationship finds moreover that it considers that China has exceeded the Philippines as main source of marine characterized employed in the international services, even if the Philippines are still the main source of ratings, but specifies that however the data supplied from the international companies of navigation suggest that the quota marine Chineses available for employs in international marine services could be more limited, while the Philippines and Russia quickly turn out primary sources of origin of the officials continuations from Ukraine and India.

More precisely, the specific relationship that in the directory elaborated on the base of information supplied from the national authorities the five main nations source of marine turn out to be in the China order, the Philippines, Indonesia, Russia and Ukraine, while the first five source of single officials are China, the Philippines, India, Indonesia and Russia and the first five source of single ratings are Philippine, China, Indonesia, Russia and Ukraine. According to how much instead reported from the shipowning companies, China, Filippine and Russia would turn out all and the three first sources of marine continuations from Ukraine and India.