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• 57% of women seafarers reported that the working environment is
not conducive for more women to join seafaring careers.

• Around 43% of women seafarers responded that Indian seafarers
find it difficult to accept a woman in the senior position as compared
to other nationalities.

• Women seafarers are not trained to handle sexual advancements/
harassment by their companies.

• The women seafarers suggest that the institutes should have a lady
warden and counsellor.

• Nearly 40% of the crew on cruise ships believe that the promotions
are slow in their company.

Crew on • Around 80% of the respondents report that their company does
Cruise Ships not have any retirement benefits policy like pension, gratuity and
provident fund.

• Almost 27% of respondents report that there is discrimination
based on nationality in the company’s hiring policies.

• Roughly 73% of respondents report that they have never been
subjected to bullying and harassment by other nationalities on
board.

• All the respondents accept that they are satisfied with the living
conditions on board.

• 18.4% of respondents feel that getting work done from the maritime
administration is very challenging, whereas 17.7% feel that new
procedures are difficult.
Maritime • More than 70% of officers are happy with the conduct of the MMD
Administration offices. However, one-third of the officers are not happy with the
professionalism of the COC examiners.

• Regarding the measures related to grievance redressal, nearly 85%
of the respondents believe that the measures taken by DGS are
effective.

• More than 80% of respondents rate the DG Shipping website user-
friendly.

• Regarding the Comprehensive Inspection Programme (CIP) for
grading the MTIs, around 60% of the respondents believe that the
CIP should be reviewed and the views of MTIs be considered while
framing the rules.

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