Impact Assessment of Seafaring Occupation using Fuzzy Aggregation Method

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10.2991/isci-15.2015.85How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Maritime Labour Convention;2006 MLC2006; Fuzzy Aggregation Method; Impact; Seafarers’ Rights Protection

Abstract

The worldwide shortage of quali ed seafarers indicates that occupational attraction of seafaring career is dropping. The importance of seafarer rights protection is increasingly recognized by the international communities. The Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, which is widely recognised as the “seafarers’ bill of rights,” entered into force on 20 August 2013. The Convention establishes minimum working and living standards for all seafarers working on ships, which will have an important impact on the seafaring occupation in China. The aim of this paper is to investigate and evaluate impacts of the rights protection improvement through implementation of MLC2006. It was found that seafarers regarded the income as the most important factor in seafarers’ rights protection, and attractiveness of the seafarer occupation may be increased by 16.8% through implementation of MLC2006.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Leilei Xia
AU  - Pengjun Zheng
AU  - Geren Gao
PY  - 2015/01
DA  - 2015/01
TI  - Impact Assessment of Seafaring Occupation using Fuzzy Aggregation Method
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Symposium on Computers & Informatics
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 639
EP  - 646
SN  - 2352-538X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/isci-15.2015.85
DO  - 10.2991/isci-15.2015.85
ID  - Xia2015/01
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