Marine Licenses

A licensed mariner is a person who holds a license issued by one or more countries to hold senior positions aboard ships, boats, and similar vessels. The International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watch-keeping for Seafarers sets qualification standards for masters, officers and watch personnel on seagoing merchant ships. Member states of the International Maritime Organization differ in the details of the implementation including the national government agency or department responsible for licensing and the local names of ranks and qualifications.

Licenses Merchant Marine in five categories:

Deck officers, engineers, staff officers, radio officers, and pilots

Deck officers License:

There are a wide variety of licenses for deck officers, with restrictions of geography and tonnage. Licenses without such restrictions are called unlimited as in Third Mate or Officer of the Watch, Unlimited. The grades of unlimited licenses are:

Master's License for masters and lower grades, Chief Mate's License for chief mates and lower grades, Second Mate's License qualifies the holder as second mate or third mate, Third Mate's License qualifies the holder as third mate.

Mariner licenses range from large to small vessels. Smaller charter boat operators may have a charter boat license or a certificate under the Large Yacht Code.

Marine Engineers License:

Licenses are issued in the grades of:

Chief Engineer, First Assistant Engineer, Second Assistant Engineer, Third Assistant Engineer, Chief Engineer (limited), Assistant Engineer (limited), Designated duty engineer, Chief Engineer (uninspected fishing industry vessels), Assistant Engineer (uninspected fishing industry vessels)

Staff officers:

Staff officers are issued a Certificate of Registry in the following grades:

Chief purser, Purser, Senior assistant purser, Junior assistant purser, Medical doctor, Professional nurse, Marine Physician Assistant (MPA), Hospital Corpsman

Radio officer License:

Pilot licenses:

Pilot licenses vary with tonnage and geography. Types of pilot's licenses are:

General routes (routes not restricted to rivers, canals and small lakes), River routes, Canal and small lakes routes

The BSc (Hons) Maritime Business and Logistics programme recognises changes taking place in the maritime business world in which, whilst the ship is still a critical part of the supply chain, other activities are also involved. Such activities include international logistics, port activity and intermodal operations. Work opportunities for logisticians are described as very good.

The Seaman Licenses document look like a small book that looks similar to a passport. Mariners that do not have a license are referred to as unlicensed mariners or ratings.

Merchant Mariner Credential, a US credential, Seaman Service Book, credential in Pakistan, Continuous Discharge Certificate, in India, Merchant Mariner's Document, UK and formerly US

The International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers (STCW), 1978 sets minimum qualification standards for masters, officers and watch personnel on seagoing merchant ships and large yachts. STCW was adopted in 1978 by conference at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in London, and entered into force in 1984. The Convention was significantly amended in 1995. The 1978 STCW Convention was the first to establish minimum basic requirements on training, certification and watchkeeping for seafarers on an international level. Previously the minimum standards of training, certification and watchkeeping of officers and ratings were established by individual governments, usually without reference to practices in other countries. As a result, minimum standards and procedures varied widely, even though shipping is extremely international by nature.

The Convention prescribes minimum standards relating to training, certification and watchkeeping for seafarers which countries are obliged to meet or exceed. The Convention did not deal with manning levels: IMO provisions in this area are covered by regulation 14 of Chapter V of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), 1974, whose requirements are backed up by resolution A.890 (21) Principles of safe manning, adopted by the IMO Assembly in 1999, which replaced an earlier resolution A. 481(XII) adopted in 1981. One especially important feature of the Convention is that it applies to ships of non-party States when visiting ports of States which are Parties to the Convention. Article X requires Parties to apply the control measures to ships of all flags to the extent necessary to ensure that no more favourable treatment is given to ships entitled to fly the flag of a State which is not a Party than is given to ships entitled to fly the flag of a State that is a Party. The difficulties which could arise for ships of States which are not Parties to the Convention is one reason why the Convention has received such wide acceptance. By 2014, the STCW Convention had 158 Parties, representing 98.8 per cent of world shipping tonnage.

Types of Ports and harbors: Home port, Fuelling station, Inland harbor, Inland port, Landing Outport, Port of entry, Trust port, Dry port, Anchorage, Wharf, Natural gas terminals, Oil terminals, Coal terminals, Container terminals, Free port, Naval base

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