PakistaniMariner eGroup - Professional Information Exchange for Pakistani Seafarers.
PakistaniMariner eGroup has been created to provide a platform for professional information exchange and mutual interaction among Pakistani seafarers.
It is a medium that will bring your voice on the internet and on the search engines. Where others, fellow sailors and non-seafarers, may learn how things have been going in the seafaring career of Pakistani seamen.
Man learns from others experience, you will find ideas and inspiration from others posts and vice versa. It is a matter of increasing awareness about the situation of seamen and merchant navy in Pakistan. If you will not tell what is happening, no body will ever know what Pakistani seamen are going through and ultimately the situation will remain unchanged.
Seamen are ripped off at job offices and mishandled onboard ships. Employment search is the major concern after every ship for many. Even some educational institutions are and have been charging heavy amounts for training that has no demand on the merchant vessels. There are no job securities after completion of well paid training.
I emphasize and will continue to suggest mariners to practice expression. You do not need to identify your self. Yahoo groups, where PakistaniMariner eGroup is hosted, allows to make as many personnel profiles as one likes. I persuade you to participate in this eGroup for your own benefit.
Merchant Shipping employees spend 6-9 months at sea and when they come back on leave there is so much to do at home that they are not bothered by what is going round them - until they need a new job.
Merchant Navy Employees and Seamen in Pakistan do not have a forum or any other source of getting current information - a magazine solely presenting information about trends in local shipping and ship job market. Had there been such a affective source of information present, many young men with pre-sea training for GP3 rank would not have wasted there time and money for qualifications leading to non-existent jobs at sea for Pakistani nationals.
What is the use of a qualification that would not, end of the day, qualify one for a job. Lot of, rather all - yes all, serving seamen knew that there was grim scope for Pakistani GP3s onboard merchant ships but no one was bothered and there was no way of expressing or knowing the truth in the media. Result was that ignorant young boys, and their anticipating parents, paid sky high tuition fees for gaining pre-sea training with no output in sight.
How misleading were the false promises and the colored pictures of future painted at the time of admission to the worthless courses !
It is the middle class that opts for jobs in merchant navy and populate ships. These educated boys, from families where 100,000 rupees are a big amount, spent their parents hard earned savings - provident funds, pension loans and similar to pay off the nautical colleges fees in the hope of earning ‘big’ from the sea and in the quest of seeing the world.
Had someone guided these boys of the true condition of Pakistani seamen, had they read in a forum the problems of ship employment for Pakistani seafarers, had they even knew the nature of job at sea, much of their parents hard earned money would have not been wasted.
I am a seafarer like you and cannot offer one a job in merchant navy, though to facilitate the same Database of Pakistani Mariners has been introduced and some more resources have been added to the pakistaniMARITIME.Com.
I have added a list of manning agents in Karachi and will soon add a list of shipping companies that hire Pakistani nationals to the ‘Maritime Links’ section. I do suggest [ and request :) ] your submissions to these resources. They are for you and may help to change your financial future.
I would welcome everyone to participate and suggest improvements to this initiative meant solely in the interest of our merchant navy employees and the ones who intend to join Pakistan shipping to earn a living.
Send me your opinion in any form: as an article, essay, letter, email and I will upload it to the appropriate section.
Send me your resume web sites and I will upload them on my hosting server.
If you get your resume site uploaded in the Resume Web Site Section, it can be 'spidered' quite fast, since pakistaniMARITIME.Com enjoys very frequent visits from Goggle, Yahoo and Msn spiders. Getting indexed in search engines will enable your resume to appear in internet searches comparatively in less time.
If you find yourself overwhelmed or have queries about any thing please email me and I will be more than happy to answer, provided it lies within my knowledge and ability.
All services at pakistaniMARITIME.Com are free and open to everyone interested in sea and merchant navy with emphasizes on Pakistani seafarers and Pakistan shipping. Let me make it clear that I do not have any monitory interests involved in ‘PakistaniMariner eGroup or from pakistaniMARITIME.Com web presence.
For this forum to work in the interest and benefit of us all, the Pakistani Merchant shipping employees, we need to maneuver it ourselves by participating and initiating useful information that could benefit all of us.
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