Study On The Strategy Of Seafarer’s Management Of SDSC

The time that Shandong Shipping Corporation started is the most serious winter of the shipping industry in history. It is not proper time to be born. However, as every Yin has its Yang, there are always both sides. Although the average profit is so cut in the winter, it also provides the opportunity to purchase ships under a very low cost. What is more important, the serious market situation makes Shandong Shipping change its original methods, adjust its construction, lower the cost and improve its core competitive capacity, in order to survive and then gain sustainable development.Shandong Shipping Corporation started at October 2010. In quite a few years, an ocean-going fleet has been set up. Business partners have been made, such as Vale, BHP Billiton, and Sinochem. Some success of Shandong Shipping, such as building up Shandong Shipping Union, running LPG carrier and issuing corporation bond overseas, has gain the company its reputation in the shipping industry. However, it’s in the very beginning of the business. While the company has gained some success, problems are also revealed.The article starts from the research of Chinese crew industry, and then analyzes the characteristic and contradiction of crew industry. With the study and research of Shandong Shipping, the problems that encountered recent years has been checked out and studied. While the number of ships is still growing fast, the growth of crew management can’t match the speed of the ships’ increment. Hiring third party crew management and taking non-contract crew have brought latent problems to the entire Shandong Shipping and will do nothing good to the long term profit.Based on the characteristic of Shandong Shipping, also with some good experience from other companies, the article comes up with a whole system of crew management of Shandong Shipping, including specific procedures of how to improve the crew management into crew industry, in order to solve the present problems and do good to the long term profit.Moreover, based on the practice of the author, the article provides a solution of calculating the amount of employing new cadets each year, under the situation that ships are purchased into the fleet every year.