SECTION 3. PROMOTION OF CREW POLICY
The total number of crew employed continues to indicate a trend of declination.
For seamen that lose their jobs because of fishing boat decreases due to international
restrictions, the provision of grants is being continued. As for ocean-going shipping,
employment policies such as the promotion of distributive manning of Japanese
seamen on foreign ships are being improved. As for coastal shipping, the averge
age of seamen is high and the acquisition of young seamen is a top priority. For
this, consideration is being given to the setting up of the "Problem of Seamen
Shortage Conference". Regarding the employment of foreign seamen, mixed manning
ships will be run according to the agreement reached among concerned parties in
the fields of ocean going shipping, passenger ships and deep sea fishing.
As for seamen education facilities, carrying out changes such as shifting
the emphasis of the curriculum of the schools for sea men for training ocean going
seamen to become coastal shipping seamen, education according to a new system
will be carried out.
And as for the modernization of the seamen institution, the necessary measures
for making use of the modernized ships system such as the making the P ship and
mixed-manning ships practical, must be formulated.
And towards early realization of a 40 hour weekly average labor system: besides
promoting the reduction of working hours, the revision of government-ordinances
and ministerial ordinances necessary for the enforcing of the revised Mariner's
Law will be carried out by April 1st 1993.
