Abstract
THE ROLE OF ITF AUGMENTING QUALITY IN SHIPPING BUSINESS AND TURKISH MARITIME UNIONSIM
Importance of sea transport is known very well everyone in the world. % 80 volume of Cargo Transportation is held by ships nowadays all over the world. Within this huge traffic, our country does not take enough role although we are surrounded by seas along three side. Why we are not so strong within this competitive and aggressive sector , I would like to tell that weakness of national union structure is one of the major reason. It could be said that; in Turkey, unions can be organized in private sector almost none. And as a result of this situation, seems some barriers are set of against development of our national maritime sector. It is rather difficult to take an important role in global sector, without well qualified and unionized maritime labor supply to worldwide shipping companies. Our country will have a voice over the world if can found a justice on maritime labor organization. We need to establish good relations and work closely with International Transport Federation (ITF). It’s one of the oldest federations in the earth and has very significant power and sanction within shipping sector all over the world. So far, they took very important steps and had roles in development of social rights of sea farers. Our shipping will enable shipping industry of Turkey to develop faster by establishing unionization among maritime labor and coordination with ITF.
Keywords
Deniz İşletmeciliği, Lojistik, Çalışma İlişkileri, Kalite ve Emniyet Yönetimi.
