The merchant navy mainly deals with transporting cargo and occasionally passengers by sea. It has different fleets composed of passenger vessels, cargo liners, tankers, bulk carriers, car carriers, containers as well as the other special types of vessels. Merchant navy is the backbone of international trade, carrying cargo across the globe for import and export business. Merchant navy is known for transportation. Plus point of merchant navy is the highest paid salary. Moreover it is totally tax-free. You can save the total salary since all your expense in borned by the shipping company.
Shipping companies offer these positions on contracts for a period of 6 to 9 months. After finishing the contract period, the officers can enjoy leave whenever they want to join back, the company will absorb them immediately. Presently the demand for Marine Engineers Deck officers are high worldwide. The shipping companies are facing great shortage for the Deck Engine officers. Hence the trained persons are getting immediate job opportunities all over the world.