CREW MANAGEMENT & TRAINING

Vinmarine JSC is continuously searching, recruiting, training and managing marine officers and seafarers with deep professional experience and high skills. These people are all committed to complying with all values of the company, the ship and the needs and requirements of the Owners & Charterers. We maintain and set clear policies, rules and objectives to maintain and ensure the highest efficiency for the set standards.

We are always adheres to and keeps the team spirit, trust, and spirit of the market at work, as well as family values, and the health and welfare of crew members and employees in the company as a top priority. leadership in retaining the crew.

We operate a thoughtful and thorough screening and recruitment process to find the best candidates for our vessels to manage and supply.

Our ashore management team, with a dedicated, experienced team, ensures to provide professional services to our shipowners/ship management and crew. Always directing the highest core values and optimizing services that bring the highest value to customers and crew.

Crewing management services:

  • Certification control: Ensuring all Crew meet STCW, Flag State, MLC requirements, and any specific requirements by Owners
  • Recruitment / Selection / Training/ Planning and Deployment
  • Requesting, monitoring and managing regular and NON- Routine, appraisals and monitoring retention figures
  • Maintaining accurate personnel file records, and database
  • Training and improvement to our crews for maritime talents and skills
  • Transporaation
  • Payroll  and Welefare of crew and shore staff
  • Insurance 

MLC-2006
The Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (MLC) is an international agreement of the International Labour Organisation (‘ILO’) which sets out seafarers’ rights to decent conditions of work. It is sometimes called the ‘Seafarers’ Bill of Rights’. It applies to all seafarers, including those with jobs in hotel and other passenger services on cruise ships and commercial yachts. It is considered to be the 4th pillar complementing the existing maritime conventions that is the SOLAS ,STCW and MARPOL regulations Course Objectives: • Be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the Maritime Labour Convention. • Understand the Company’s commitment with MLC 2006 and prepare the crew onboard according the MLC inspections schedule.

ISPS Code
The International Ship and Port Facility Security Code (ISPS Code) is an International code that was conceived following the September 11th 2001 terrorists attacks in the USA.

It primary purpose is to identify and counter any terrorist threat to the Maritime Industry particularly against ships and ports. The code also serve’s to improve security against armed robbery, theft and piracy. The code came into force in 2004 and prescribes responsibilities to:

STCW
The International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers (STCW), 1978, was adopted by the International Conference on Training and Certification of Seafarers on 7 July 1978.

The 1978 STCW Convention entered into force on 28 April 1984. Since then, amendments thereto have been adopted in 1991, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2018

MARPOL
The International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL) is the main international convention covering prevention of pollution of the marine environment by ships from operational or accidental causes.

The MARPOL Convention was adopted on 2 November 1973 at IMO. The Protocol of 1978 was adopted in response to a spate of tanker accidents in 1976-1977. As the 1973 MARPOL Convention had not yet entered into force, the 1978 MARPOL Protocol absorbed the parent Convention. The combined instrument entered into force on 2 October 1983. In 1997, a Protocol was adopted to amend the Convention and a new Annex VI was added which entered into force on 19 May 2005. MARPOL has been updated by amendments through the years.

The Convention includes regulations aimed at preventing and minimizing pollution from ships – both accidental pollution and that from routine operations – and currently includes six technical Annexes. Special Areas with strict controls on operational discharges are included in most Annexes


SOLAS
The International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) is an international maritime treaty that sets minimum safety standards in the construction, equipment and operation of merchant ships. The International Maritime Organization convention requires signatory flag states to ensure that ships flagged by them comply with at least these standards.

The current version of SOLAS is the 1974 version, known as SOLAS 1974, which came into force on 25 May 1980. As of April 2022, SOLAS 1974 has 167 contracting states, which flag about 99% of merchant ships around the world in terms of gross tonnage.

SOLAS in its successive forms is generally regarded as the most important of all international treaties concerning the safety of merchant ships.

SOLAS has 14 Chapter.