Abstract:
This research project is about the Halal food onboard ships and
its availability amongst Malaysian ships. This study will be discussing
and focusing on the knowledge of seafarers about Halal food onboard
ships and the availability of Halal foods. onboard Malaysian ships. The
religions, nationality of seafarers and nationality of the companies are
among those criteria used to evaluate and identify the two objectives of
this research. For the purpose of this research, a few readings of
journals, articles and statistics plus the survey questionnaire have been
done to obtain the required data and information to relates between
Malaysian seafarers with the knowledge of Halal and non-Halal foods
and the availability of such foods amongst Malaysian ships. This
research resulted in the findings that many of Malaysian seafarers do
have high knowledge about Halal foods. Besides that, the findings lead
to the fact that, none of Malaysian ship provides non-Halal foods as
daily meals. The conclusion is that both objective were partly met even
though the result is very close, because further research needs to be
done in order to obtained more accurate results.
