SIRI PETTERSEN STRANDENES Global seaborne transport Shipping is essential to the functioning of the global economy and the related international merchandise trade. Shipping facilitates trade by moving ...
... is a master mariner with more than 20 years of experience in the maritime industry, including sailing as senior officer aboard merchant ships worldwide. He holds a Master’s degree in maritime affairs with ...
... at the School of Applied Psychology, University College Cork. Joanne's PhD focused on psychosocial factors in merchant seafaring, commissioned by Shell International B.V. She has presented at several international ...
... and in Theology from the Ateneu Universitari Sant Pacià, has a PhD in Civil Marine Science from the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya and is a Captain of the Spanish Merchant Navy with 8 years of seafaring ...
Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Jensen PROFESSIONAL PROFILE 5 years ship officer in merchant navy. Professor at the Flensburg University of Applied Science. ...
... Examination of Seafarers. He is actively involved in formulating medical standards for maritime industry stakeholders and collaborates with the worlds’ major cruise lines and merchant shipping companies ...
... in 2011 his research work has been awarded with a PhD - In situ study of the significant parameters governing corrosion in ballast tanks on board merchant vessels. For further info on research and publications ...
ALF MAGNE HORNELAND Military navy Working on naval vessels differs a lot from working on merchant ships. Naval ships cannot change flag like a merchant ship, unless they are decommissioned and sold ...
... ability to work, to see and to hear, came earlier in the military navies than in the merchant navy. Already during the 17th century, one can find traces of such requirements in naval history[3]. In the ...
... sailing areas where seafarers could possibly work. Instead, the chapter will cover principles for medical selection, using the merchant navy as an example, whilst always keeping in mind the need for individual ...
... In addition, diving takes place on merchant or cruise ships allows inspection for damage beneath the water line, in a water hull survey, cleaning of the hull and security inspections. Offshore divers are ...
... MARGARETHA HOLTENSDOTTER LÜTZHÖFT Passenger vessels differ in their crewing from other merchant vessels. In addition to the required deck and engine crew present on all vessels, they also carry a variable ...
... from a single country and numbers, jobs and demographic information are available. By contrast, merchant seafarers and fishing industry employees are often on casual or other non-standard contracts and ...
TIM CARTER Introduction There has only been a limited amount of investigation into the health of merchant seafarers and those who work in fishing. This contrasts with the long history of investigations ...
... and a means of treatment. It was to be over one hundred years before lemon juice was used effectively on merchant ships. Further information on the fight against scurvy is available in Ch 2.3.3.1. Similar ...
CHRISTOPHER PETRIE Introduction A ship and its crew do not normally carry uninvited guests. Merchant vessels sail the world’s oceans in a distinctly self-contained and self-sufficient environment, ...
... to innocent passage of international commercial vessels. In the spring of 2019, Iran conducted limpet mine attacks against several merchant vessels in the Gulf of Oman. In July 2019, it seized a UK-flagged ...
... zones have the highest overall number of recorded seafarer deaths at sea.[5] However, the numbers of dead seafarers should be taken in the context that an estimated 400,000 seafarers work on merchant ...
... care professional, for example a paramedic, on board. On normal merchant vessels medical care is provided by a nautical officer with limited training [10]. More information on the medical training of seafarers ...