当前航运业的竟争日趋激烈,特别是集装箱运输业.各公司竞相降低运价,以求生存.公司内部则尽量压低成本,于是船越造越大,而船员却越来越少.船员减少一是因为船上的设备日益先进,二是降低营运成本的要求.这种趋势导致了单人驾驶台值班体系的形成.单人驾驶台值班是否可行,一直是在航运界有较大争议的问题.以丹麦为首的一些北欧国家包括德国、瑞典、挪威、荷兰和英国一直是单人驾驶台值班制度的支持者.而美国等一些国家因考虑到安全因素而对此制度一直是反对的,但他们在具体执行中也持较宽容的态度.作为此项制度的倡导者,丹麦船东协会一直在担心海上安全委员会会暂停单人驾驶台值班的试验.因为在国际海事组织的第六十五次会议上,许多成员国要求立即停止单人夜间驾驶台值 The current competition in the shipping industry is becoming more and more intense, especially in the container shipping industry. Companies are vying to reduce their freight rates in order to survive. The company keeps its costs as low as possible, so the bigger the ship, the fewer the crew. Because of the increasingly advanced equipment on board and the requirement of reducing operating costs.This trend has led to the formation of a single bridge duty watch system.It is always a controversial issue in the shipping industry whether the single bridge cab is on duty or not. Some Nordic countries headed by Denmark, including Germany, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, have been the proponents of the single-operator bridge duty watch system, while some countries, such as the United States, have been opposed to the regime for security reasons, but they As a proponent of this system, Danish Shipowners Association has been worried that the Maritime Safety Committee will suspend piloting of a single bridge deck because at the 65th International Maritime Organization At the meeting, many member states called for an immediate halt of single-night bridge deck values