[নোঙর 2016] Global Mariners’ Groups : Baten (18)

When Singapore marine community grew, we realized that we need to have a virtual common platform, we all need to be connected with each other, primarily sharing our professional knowledge & exchange our professional ideas, then on 06 July 2009, we developed our “Yahoo Groups” & since then we are all connected together through our common “Yahoo Groups”. We developed a very strong means to keep all of us in touch, share our feelings & remain bonded together as a big family.

Looking forward, we realized that, not only in Singapore, we all fellow professional mariners around the world need to be connected globally. To integrate all of us around the globe, with very simple vision of bringing all our fellow mariners under one big umbrella. View Singapore’s success story, on 21 May 2014, we developed our “Google Groups” for all our fellow professional mariners residing around the globe, primarily at 6 major hubs, like Bangladesh; Far East (includes Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar & Singapore); Middle East (includes Kuwait, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa & UAE); North America (includes Canada & U.S.A); Oceania (Australia, Papua New Guinea & New Zealand) and U.K.

Our “Google Groups”, known as “Global Mariners Groups” is for all Bangladeshi origin professional mariners around the globe, all will be treated & accommodated equally, irrespective of their academic background & religion, no discrimination between marine academy and non-marine academy professional mariners (direct entry/fisheries/etc.) now sailing or earlier sailed in foreign going ships.

This is not an organization, it is a simple internet communication tool to remain connected & united forever, an effort to create global bonding for all our fellow professional mariners. It is totally independent, impartial from all our present association/society/organization/etc. which we are now running & continue to run around the globe.

With this, we all can now directly post email to “Global Mariners Groups” using bdmariners@googlegroups.com, which will reach all our fellow professional mariners. We all will share & exchange our views, information, bulletin, shipping/marine journals which are common & intended for our entire global marine community.

We invite all our fellow mariners around the globe to participate, irrespective of our attachments with various other organizations and wish all of us to enjoy all the topics from our fellow professional mariners, and this will keep all of us on-board intact. Everyone to continue sharing with their meaningful thoughts. All our fellow mariners are expected some sort of self-censorship mechanism for sensitive issues which may disturb our community and social harmony or can undermine our professional dignity and merchant navy traditions. Our fellow professional mariners will refrain from bullying, criticism, indecent language, posting political or religious topics considering that among us we have fellow mariners of different religion groups. We are confident that everyone will feel great & proud to be part of this Groups.

We shall follow our simple basic Code of Conducts:

What can be posted (including photographs/videos):
1.    Reunions, gathering, party
2.    Employment/business opportunity
3.    Education/training opportunity
4.    Migration, visa information
5.    Sickness/death/obituary
6.    Holidays
7.    Travels
8.    Innovation (Shipping, IT)
9.    Medical facility
10.    Taxation
11.    Investment
12.    Retirement
13.    Legal matters on shipping, investment, property, family issues
14.    House, vehicle purchase/sell
15.    Sea faring experience/incidents
16.    Good health tips
17.    Safety/security at sea and ashore
18.    Engagement/marriage/proposals
19.    Humor/jokes
20.    Newsletter, information, bulletin from alumni, association, unions, societies, extracts from Shipping/marine journals.
21.    Fund raising appeal for mariners in distress

What cannot be posted
1.    Any political, religious views, comments, extracts from media, religious books
2.    Any non-marine related fund raising, such as appeal for educational institutions, mosque, orphanage, charity etc.
3.    Bullying, criticism
4.    Indecent language
5.    Advertising/promotion of services and products for self & of commercial nature.
6.    Posting with false identity. Group approved ID signature must be entered.

Role of Group Moderator:
1.    Screening and approving entry to the group and acceptance of code of conduct.
2.    Periodic  appeal /promotion/ research to enhance attractiveness of the group to induce   more mariners to subscribe
3.    Periodic status update of subscribers: entry/exit matrix
4.    Review “Can” & “Cannot” periodically and amend, reflecting subscribers requirement and long term sustainability.
5.    Warning/ termination of subscription in case of breach of guidelines
6.    Subscribers to  be encouraged private email ID as business email could be jammed with very large number of email traffic
7.    Mediate & close prolonged discussion/dispute for a single issue, avoiding excessive email traffic and causing annoyance to other subscribers.
8.    All email ID of individual must be kept confidential

Finally, every single fellow mariner is very important & shoulder’s huge responsibility for our entire marine community’s pride. And standing in the cross-road, let’s build our golden bridge to connect all our respected seniors & beloved juniors. Let’s all try our level best to keep all our fellow mariners around the globe together & united forever.

All our collective vision is to help our professional mariners & their family members during their needs. Our main focus shall be our mariners’ family’s welfare by keeping entire Marine Community around the globe connected together through this groups. As an individual, we will not think what community can give us, rather we will always think what we can contribute for our marine community.

For the greater interest of our entire marine community, all our fellow mariners around the globe will be there with this great team to support each other & participate with all our collective efforts, effective guidance & motivation. Let’s hold each other & uphold our marine community, high. Let’s take this golden opportunity to unite all our fellow professional mariners and we all work as a big family. All our combined effort to keep all of us united, that should be our top priority & our ultimate goal, our younger generation’s future.

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Baten; 18th Batch, Marine Academy; School & College, Faujdarhat Cadet College; CoC Class 1 & 2 (Engineering) from U.K.; Residing in Singapore since 1996, now serving Ocean Tankers as Technical Manager.

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