Total ShipManagement (TSM) provides crew management, payroll and training services which includes marine personnel selection and deployment onboard marine vessels.
Criteria and methods needed for effective operation, control and monitoring these processes are established and are identified in relevant procedures. Performance of each important process is monitored / measured and analyzed.
The Marine Personnel Team is responsible for the selection, recruitment and promotion of officers and ratings in consultation with the appropriate owner’s representatives. Each personnel officer is responsible for assigned vessels/Clients.
Personnel officer is responsible for updating, keeping and maintaining of all records, documents and papers of crewmembers working on assigned vessels/Client. All personnel recruited are suitably qualified for the positions to which they will be appointed and the requirements specified for each rank are met.
Senior Officers, once selected for interview pass an English test or Marlins test and are in possession of marlins certificate (with the required pass mark) prior to attending interview with Ship Managers, as applicable; also pass CES test on shipowners’ demand.
All seafarers hold a current medical certificate which will remain valid for the intended tour of duty. For TSM managed vessels, it is a requirement that all prospective new employees are subject to pre-employment Drug and Alcohol (D&A) Testing. Other medical fitness certificates are applied in accordance with relevant Flag State Requirements.
Where crew members are deployed by TSM we maintain in our Data Base copies of all appropriate STCW ’95 certificates, passport details, Flag State licenses, medical certificates, vaccination records, any trainings/courses passed, all sea service records, references from previous employers etc.
All our seafarers hold certificates valid under IMO Convention on Standards of Training, Certificate and Watch keeping ("STCW") for Seafarers 1978, as amended by STCW 2010 (Manila Amendments) and complying with MLC 2006.
As crew managers we undertake the full scope of management operations required by our ship-owner clients, ensuring that each vessel we are responsible for is manned with qualified and well-trained officers and ratings.
Total ShipManagement (TSM) provides crew management, payroll and training services which includes marine personnel selection and deployment onboard marine vessels.
Total ShipManagement is duly licensed by relevant state authorities & international classification societies for the provision of seagoing and offshore personnel and crew management services in accordance with ISO 9001: 2008 & MLC standards.