TITLE:
Skill Gap Analysis in the Ship Breaking Industry of Pakistan
AUTHORS:
Sayed Asghar Shah, Hadi Hussain, Mujahid Hussain
KEYWORDS:
Skill Gap Analysis, Ship Breaking Sector, Pakistan
JOURNAL NAME:
American Journal of Industrial and Business Management,
Vol.7 No.11,
November
30,
2017
ABSTRACT: Geographically
Pakistan gains much importance in the sea linkages as it intersects the three main
sea lines of communication (SLOCs). After the project China Pakistan Economic Corridor
(CPEC), there we see improvement in infrastructure of every sector which is linked
with it. But the Ship breaking sector located at Gaddani, Pakistan was still ignored.
And the main focus of our study is on the safety measures, education, health, and
demands of TEVT graduates in this sector. Data is collect through survey in 2016.
At start the ship breaking sector was on peak and become the No. 1 sector around the globe
but unfortunately this sector in performance getting down and down with time. There
are three main reasons, first, the high tax rate was imposed,
second, there was
no proper safety measures as we see deaths and injuries incidents are taken place,
no proper medical facilities are available and third there was no proper training
and education for the workforce which are engaged in this sector. All the needs of this sector
to make it Green are addressed in this study properly. If all the measures which
we addressed for the improvement of this sector is handled properly than this sector
will contribute much more to GDP in different ways as this sector in terms of employment, and will also
produce much more steel which not only fill the demand of steel domestically but
also we will export it to different countries.