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Career in Merchant Navy - Navigation [Ship Captain]

Ship Captain (a.k.a. Master) is the person in charge of the ship responsible for the navigation, discipline, safety of passengers, crew and cargo.  Captain falls under the Deck department of the Ship.

A Day in a Ship Captain’s Life

• Steer and operate ship vessels, using radios, radars, lights and buoys
• Compute positions, courses, speed using charts, plotters etc.
• Direct and co-ordinate with crew members or workers
• Maintain boats & equipments on board e.g. engines, navigation devices
• Inspect vessels to ensure efficient and safe operation
• Measure depth of water using depth-measuring equipment
• Monitor loading and discharging of cargo and passengers
• Signal passing vehicles
• Watching gauges/indicators to make sure machine is working correctly
• Guide, direct and motivate subordinates
• Getting information, making decisions and problem solving

Technical Skills Required

• Navigational and spatial orientation
• Depth perception and far vision
• Judgment and decision making
• Management of Personnel resources
• Monitoring and Supervising

Personal attributes Required

• Good physique with sound health
• Sporting, adaptive and adjustable attitude
• Love for adventure and challenges
• Urge to strive for higher positions
• Intelligent, intuitive and team worker
• Not be sea sick and work for long hours
• Long periods of solitude and away from family

Types of Merchant Navy fleet (Non-combatant commercial)

• Cargo ships
• Container ships
• Barge carrying ships
• Tankers & Roll on/off ships
• Bulk carriers
• Refrigerator ships
• Passenger ships

Job Avenues

• Govt. Shipping companies
• Private Shipping companies
• Foreign Shipping companies
• After retirement you can work as Surveyors of Ships, Marine  
• Superintendent, Lecturer in Training Academies

Career Map

Govt. Training Institutes (For pre-sea and post-sea training)

• Training Ship Chanakya, Navi Mumbai.
• Marine Engineering & Research Institute (MERI), Kolkata. And Mumbai
• Lal Bahadur Shastri College of advanced Maritime Studies and Research, Mumbai.

Growth Chart

• Ship Captain a.k.a. Master: Responsible for safe navigation of ship, safety of passengers, crew and cargo
• First Mate a.k.a. Chief Officer: Oversea all cargo planning, assists in navigation, allocate duties to cadets
• Second Mate a.k.a. Second Officer: In-charge of checking all mails, maintenance of navigation equipment and charts
• Third Mate a.k.a. Third Officer: Keeping safety equipments like lifeboats, firefighting, signaling in top condition
• Deck Cadet / Boatswain / Seamen: Assist in security of ship, cleaning, docking at ports

Promotion

• Process of rising from a Deck Cadet to Ship Captain takes minimum of at least 10 to 12 years
• Deck Cadet can apply for Second Officer Exam after 36 months of sailing
• Third Officer can apply for First Mate Exam after 18 months of sailing
• Chief Officer has to have 18 month sailing experience before applying for Ship Captain position

Salary Expectation

• Depends of type of ship, seniority and experience level
• Salary ranges from Rs. 20,000 to  Rs. 2,00,000 per month
• Free meals, accommodation, family trips, other perks like duty free, NRI tax benefits, four month leave per year
  
  
  

OM Parkash Bareta Marine Engineering

Marine engineering broadly refers to the engineering of boats, ships, oil rigs and any other marine vessel or structure. Specifically, marine engineering is the discipline of applying engineering sciences, mostly mechanical and electrical engineering, to the development, design, operation and maintenance of watercraft propulsion and on-board systems; e.g. power and propulsion plants, machinery, piping, automation and control systems etc. for marine vehicles of any kind like surface ships, submarines etc. Marine engineers and naval architects are similar professions. However, whereas naval architects are concerned with the overall design of the ship and its propulsion through the water, marine engineers are focused towards the main propulsion plant, the powering and mechanization aspects of the ship functions such as steering, anchoring, cargo handling, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, electrical power generation and distribution, interior and exterior communication, and other related requirements. In some cases, the responsibilities of each industry collide and is not specific to either field. Propellers are examples of one of these types of responsibilities. For naval architects a propeller is a hydrodynamic device. For marine engineers a propeller acts similarly to a pump. Hull vibration, excited by the propeller, is another such area. Noise reduction and shock hardening must be the joint responsibility of both the naval architect and the marine engineer. In fact, most issues caused by machinery are responsibilities in general.^[1]

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A proper Defination of Merchant navy

A merchant navy or merchant marine is the fleet of merchant vessels that are registered in a country. Seafarers on merchant vessels of various ranks and sometimes members of maritime trade unions, are required by the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers to carry Merchant Mariner's Documents.

King George V bestowed the title of the "Merchant Navy" on the British merchant shipping fleets following their service in the First World War; since then a number of other nations have adopted the title. The following is a partial list of the merchant navies or merchant marines of various countries. In many countries the fleet's proper name is simply the capitalized version of the common noun.

Canadian Merchant Navy[edit]

For more details on this topic, see Canadian Merchant Navy.

Canada, like several other Commonwealth nations, created its own Merchant Navy in a large-scale effort in World War II. Established in 1939, the Canadian Merchant Navy played a major role in the Battle of the Atlantic bolstering the Allies' merchant fleet due to high losses in the British Merchant Navy.

Eventually thousands of Canadians served in the Merchant Navy aboard hundreds of Canadian merchant ships, notably the "Park Ship", the Canadian equivalent of the American "Liberty Ship". A school at St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia trained Canadian merchant mariners. "Manning Pools", Merchant Navy barracks, were built in Canadian ports.

Greek Merchant Navy[edit]

For more details on this topic, see Greek Merchant Navy.

The Greek maritime fleet is today engaged in commerce and transportation of goods and services universally. It consists of the merchant vessels owned by Greekcivilians, flying either the Greek flag or a flag of convenience. Greece is a maritime nation by tradition, as shipping is arguably the oldest form of occupation of the Greeks and a key element of Greek economic activity since the ancient times.

Indian Merchant Navy[edit]

The birth of the modern Indian merchant navy occurred before independence from the United Kingdom, when in 1919 SS Loyalty sailed from India to Britain.^[3] Since independence the Indian maritime industry has grown, but not up to expectations. Today, India ranks 22nd in the world in terms of total DWT ranking.

India currently supplies around 12.8% of Officers and around 14.5% of ratings to the world seafaring community. This is one of the highest of any country .^[4]

New Zealand Merchant Navy[edit]

In December 1939, 3000 seafarers were employed 186 merchant vessels were on the New Zealand Registry (many larger New Zealand vessels were however registered in London for insurance purposes). Some foreign vessels were impressed, including the 4 masted barque, Pamir. New Zealand like several other Commonwealth nations created a merchant navy. Although some ships were involved in the Atlantic and North Pacific trade, mostly this involved domestic and South Pacific cargos. New Zealand owned ships involved in trade with the United Kingdom (84% of all New Zealand exports in 1939) and the majority of New Zealand seamen had served with the British Merchant Navy. Over the course of the war, 64 ships were sunk by enemy action on the New Zealand-UK route.^[5]

Pakistani Merchant Navy[edit]

For more details on this topic, see Pakistan Merchant Navy.

The Pakistan Merchant Navy was formed in 1947. The Ministry of Port and Shipping, Mercantile Marine Department and Shipping Office established by the government of Pakistan were authorized to flag the ship and also ensured that the vessel was sea worthy. All of the private shipping companies merged and formed the National Shipping Corporation (NSC) and the Pakistan Shipping Corporation (PSC) and as a result they had a common flag. Among these companies were theMuhammadi Steamship Company Limited and the East & West Steamship Company.

In an Indo-Pak war of 1971 Pakistan suffered a great loss of its Merchant Vessels at the hands of Indians. On 1 January 1974 President of Pakistan Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto nationalized the National Shipping Corporation and Pakistan Shipping Corporation, and formed Pakistan National Shipping Corporation (PNSC) with the intent of reestablishing the Pakistan Merchant Navy. Later, the Company was incorporated under the provisions of the Pakistan National Shipping Corporation Ordinance of 1979 and the Companies Ordinance of 1984 respectively.

Today Pakistan National Shipping Corporation is the national flag carrier managing a fleet of 09 vessels. The Corporation's head office is located in Karachi. A regional office based in Lahore caters for upcountry shipping requirements. The Corporation also has an extensive overseas network of agents looking after its world wide shipping business. Pakistan National Shipping Corporation also has several subsidiary companies.^[6]

Polish Merchant Navy[edit]

Main article: Polish Merchant Navy

The Polish Merchant Navy (Polish: Polska Marynarka Handlowa, PMH) was created in the interwar period when the Second Polish Republic regained independence. During World War II, many ships of the Polish Navy joined the Allied merchant navy and its convoys, as part of the Polish contribution to World War II.

After the war, the Polish Merchant Navy was controlled by the People's Republic of Poland and after 1989, by modern Poland. As of 1999, the PMH controls 57 ships (of 1,000 GT or over) totaling 1,120,165 gross tonnage (GT)/1,799,569 tonnes deadweight (DWT) including 50 bulk carriers, 2 general cargo ships, 2 chemical tankers, 1 roll-on/roll-off ship and 2 short-sea passenger ships.

Swiss Merchant Marine[edit]

For more details on this topic, see Merchant Marine of Switzerland.

Switzerland, despite being a landlocked country, has a civilian high seas fleet of merchant vessels, whose home port is Basel, on the Rhine. The first ships were purchased and operated by the government in order to ensure the supply of critical resources during World War II. After the war, a privately owned merchant fleet emerged, spurred in part by government subsidies that paid for the fleet's operation up until 1953. As of 2006, 26 ships (mostly container carriers) totalling 479,624tons, operated by five shipping companies, fly the Swiss flag.

United States Merchant Marine[edit]

For more details on this topic, see United States Merchant Marine.

The United States Merchant Marine is made up of the nation's civilian-owned merchant ships and the men and women that crew them. The merchant marine transports cargo and passengers during peace time. In time of war, the merchant marine^[7] is an auxiliary to the Navy, and can be called upon to deliver troops and supplies for the military.

The people of the merchant marine are called merchant mariners, and are civilian except in times of war, when, in accordance with the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 they are considered military personnel. As of 2009, the United States merchant fleet numbered 422 ships^[8] and approximately 69,000 people. Seven hundred ships owned by American interests but registered, or flagged, in other countries are not included in this number.