Job Prospects:



Candidates start as junior engineers. Advancement to the next level is depends on senior and on clearing relevant qualifying tests and receiving a Certificate of Competency. Through the above process, it will take 4-5 years approximately to reach the level of Chief Engineer from the Junior Engineer.

Examples of Places to work:

Great Eastern Shipping, Essar Shipping, Pelican Marine, G.N.P. Cruise Services, SESA Goa, Five Star Shipping, Blue Sky Shipping & Trading, Fleet Management, Karsab Inter Shipping, Bahman Marine Services, Gati Coast to Coast, Spar Shipping, Ashapura Shipping, Jebelco Shipping International, West Asia Shipping, Tradex India, Sea Eagel Shipping, Five Ocean Shipping, Hanan Shipping, Al Hufoof Shipping & Forwarding, Shipping Corporation of India, Varun Shipping, Wilco Ship Management & Transport, Mobil Shipping, Chevron Manning Services ltd., Mitsui OSK lines, Barber Ship Management ltd. Australia, Ravenscroft Shipping, Searland Ship Mgmt. Austria, Orinoco Marine Consultancy, Nortrans, Anglo Eastern Shipping Mgmt., Neptune Orient Lines, Chellaram Shipping, V-Ships Inc.

When a person become a Chief Engineer and put at least two years experience in that level, he has the option to leave the sea job and look for shore-based jobs as follows:

1. As Maintenance Engineers in Star Hotels/Big Industries for maintaining the diesel engine, which only the marine engineer would be able to do.
2. As Surveyors in any in Government Department, namely, Mercantile Marne Department, D.G.Shipping, Quality Survey organizations etc.; and
3. As Dean/Principal/Professor in any Marine Engineering College, worldwide.

Scholarships are available from Government of India merit scholarship, Government of India financial scholarship, Delhi Administration, Government of Haryana, Government of Kerala, Government of Maharashtra, Government of Rajasthan, Government of Uttar Pradesh, Government of West Bengal, Government of Orissa, Government of Karnataka, Government of Himachal Pradesh, Government of Assam, Calcutta Port Trust, M. A. Master Memorial, Ravenscroft Shipping Inc., Kishanchand Chellaram Educational Trust, Lloyds Register of Shipping

Colleges Overseas:

USA

1.)      Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California
2.)      United States Merchant Marine Academy, NY
3.)      United States Coast Guard Academy
4.)      World Maritime University
5.)      Texas Maritime Academy
6.)      Pacific Maritime Institute
7.)      Webb Institute
8.)      Great Lakes Maritime Academy
9.)      Maritime Institute of Technology and graduate Studies

UK

1.) London Institute of Shipping and Transport

2.) Aberdeen College

3.) The Marine Society.

4.) University of Glasgow.

5.) University of Ulster.

6.) The Centre for Advanced Maritime Studies.

Australia

1. Australian Maritime College.
2. Fremantle Maritime College.
3. Hunter Institute of Technology.
4. WA Institute of Maritime Training Centre.