Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣海洋大學 === 航運管理學系 === 97 === Shipping industry acts as an important role for Taiwan’s economic development in past decades. An effective shipping development policy must contain those projects of seafarers’ training, employment, and welfare scheme. All these measures have to be adopted through legislative efforts which will rely on the efforts of government and private sectors. In view of Taiwan’s seafarers’ policy has faced some challenges and needs to be reviewed in order to provide solutions to the difficulties, this study export certain problems of seafarers’ employment scheme through documentary analysis and interviews with the key persons in charge of seafarers affairs in Taiwan’s shipping industry.
It discusses the difficulties of employing qualified seafarers, the imbalance of seafarers’ supply and demand, the problems arising from insufficient provision of seafarers, such as impact on navigation safety, etc. This study suggests the government and the private shipping companies to adopt certain measures to improve current difficulties, including the improvement of welfare, training and other employment conditions. It aims to produce win-win result for shipping companies as well as seafarers. This study intends to provide reference to government, shipping companies.
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