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The analysis and assessment of the current reality and the future needs of the maritime education and training system, as well as the certification system in the international maritime society

Hisashi Yamamoto
Senior Lecturer, Istanbul Technical University, Maritime Faculty, Turkey

Yamamoto

Abstract

The heart of the current reality is the deterioration of the “quality” of the international shipping services, which is a merchandise provided by the shipping industry to the international shipping market. We have witnessed in the past three decades the process that the quality of the shipping services as a merchandise have severely deteriorated. While this deterioration of quality of shipping services in the international shipping market has developed on the one hand, the process of transformation, or even a collapse, of the reproduction system of the quality shipping services within the boundary of an individual traditional developed maritime countries has also simultaneously progressed. The challenge of today is, therefore, firstly to ascertain the dynamism behind such process, and secondly to establish a perspective into the task of how to reconstruct the reliable and efficient reproduction system of quality shipping services in the totally different environment called globalization.