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What is Ship Management
REV
- functions of taking care of a ship on behalf of
the ship owner - Responsible for manning, maintaining, supplying
and insuring the ship - Ensuring that the ship is seaworthy
- Vessel available to the operators for the
maximum amount of time possible.
Ship management service provided by
i. A dept within a shipping company, eg. NOL
ii. Its subsidiary eg. NSSPL
iii. From a ship management company employed by the ship owner (independent ship managers)
Departments within a
Ship Management Company
ATOMS
Admin., Finance and Human Resource Department
Technical Department
Operation Department
Marine Personnel Department
Safety and Quality Department
Ways to arrange crew for ships
Direct employment of crew by the shipmanagement company.
Employment of crew through a national
organisation.
Employment of crew through a union.
Employment of crew through an agency.
A combination of any of the above.
Direct employment
company employs the sea staff directly
Advantages:
Total loyalty to the company.
Easier to maintain the standard of the sea staff
and they know the company culture better.
Disadvantage:
Extra cost to maintain the crew department
Employment of personnel through a national organization
All tasks formerly performed by the crew dept are done by the
organization.
Ship manager’s task to decide how he wants the ship to be manned and when he wants the crew to be changed.
Ship manager will have to pay for the services rendered
Advantages:
Save expenses on the crew dept.
More efficient manpower planning and distribution
Disadvantage:
Lack of loyalty or interest on the company’s
performance
Employment of personnel
through a Union
The union supplies the whole crew.
The ship manager or owner has little control
over who sails in his ships.
Employment of crew through
an agency
Agencies are usually used by ship
managers to provide crew from countries
other than the country of management or
registration of the ship.
Responsibilities of a crew department
MERAW
The manning onboard a ship
The establishment of the crew in the company
Recruitment
Arrange joining and signing of crew onboard ships
Welfare of the crew
Manning On Board Ships
number, categories and qualifications of crew required to sail depending on country of registry, unions, or additional operational requirement of the ship.
Establishment
total number of sea staff required to crew
all the ships in the company’s fleet and will include crew at sea and ashore.
may be based on 100% on the manning scales of all the ships plus allowance for leave, sickness, study leave, training and overlap when changing crew
Recruitment
incomplete or incompetent crew is unsafe and in the eyes of the law, unseaworthy
Due to intense competition, shipping lines have to operate with the least cost to have the comparative advantage.
Crew cost and flagging out are some of the areas being used by ship managers to maintain their competitiveness.
Choice of Crew
Usually as per the registry of the ship.
To bring down the operating cost, many owners
have opted for open registries which allow foreign
crew.
Foreign crew has its own problems namely:
Communication problem.
Religions and custom may vary widely.
Antipathy between certain races.
Different food, culture
Different quality and standard
Safety maybe compromised if not careful.
Arrange joining and signing of crew on board ships
Must be economical and practical.
Max no. of crew at the same time to enjoy larger
discount and repetition of similar effort.
Done close to where crew are engaged to
minimise cost.
Sufficient experienced staff remaining to guide the
new staff.
Avoid Arriving too early.
Avoid Arriving too late .
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Crew’s Welfare
Crew approach the crew dept for assistance when
they need help.
The spouses/next of kin also approach the crew
dept for assistance when they need to contact the
crew.
Send magazine, newspaper
Send letters on a regular basis
Bank in money on time
Make them feel important
