Crewing companies and features of their activities

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

Crewing is a set of pre-trained people for sea or river vessels. This concept is usually understood as companies that invite seafarers to work.

Activities

Crewing companies engaged in:

• Selection of shipowners in accordance with the wishes of the customer.

• Search for sailors, checking their documents for such work.

• Decorating the ship's flag.

• Testing knowledge English and seafarer experience.

• Signing a contract.• Sending a seafarer on the road.

Some companies of this kind are engaged in crew training before sailing. Most often, crewing companies work only with certain shipowners and recruit all the personnel for their fleet.

The main criterion for seafarers when choosing a company are only 2 points:

• Wages.• Imprisonment timecontract.

But the following points (but no less important!), employees practically do not pay attention to before signing a contract:

• Services of an insurance company.

• Conditions in which seafarers will work.• Pay for overtime hours and performance of additional (overtime) tasks.

Main role

Crewing companies are most often intermediaries between seafarers and shipping companies. And, as a rule, the owner of the ship undertakes to perform these services. But sometimes crewing companies may charge seafarers for finding work for them. I would like to note that the vacation of such employees is not paid. Now there are countless companies on the market for such services in Russia that are intermediaries between seafarers and shipping firms. Marine agents assist with crew changes for a fee, which includes:

• Customs duties.• Shipping costs and more.

Culture Capital

Crewing companies in St. Petersburg can recruit, employ and train seafarers. They are designed to employ these specialists in most common ship-owning companies (sea and river fleets). Due to the spread of the Internet, companies now very often conduct online interviews via Skype and can also arrange a job for a seafarer without contacting the office. These companies also offer medical care for their employee and his family (during the flight), alsoa certain part of the salary goes to the country's pension funds, absolutely free medical examinations, assistance to a sailor in obtaining mortgages and loans.

Local specifics

Crewing companies in Odessa work in a similar way. A person looking for a job first comes to the office or writes an e-mail and finds out about the recruitment of vacancies (and whether hiring is carried out at all) for the speci alty of a sailor. If the crewing companies in Odessa want such an employee, then the person can go through a questionnaire, then a check for the presence of a "marine" education will follow, then there is an interview in the international (English) language and an aptitude test. In the event that the company liked the results of the checks, there is a vacant position and the person is satisfied with all the working conditions, then he can proceed to undergo a medical examination. He signs a contract. Then the sailor can wait for an invitation to the ship. This procedure can last a different amount of time - from 1 day to a week or even a month. Then you have to say goodbye to your family for a long time, which, at times, is a very serious test. Next comes the boarding of the plane, and the agent meets the sailor at the airport, and he sends him to the ship for a prearranged period of time (usually indicated in the contract).