Training and development is the foundation to producing and sustaining highly skilled and confident seafarers, for our company and clients, but also the industry at large. At the same time, it ensures stronger loyalty and higher crew retention rates, thereby making seafarers far more established, specialised and experienced, which is no doubt pivotal for safer and better-quality work output.
In addition to our traditional crew recruitment channels and upgrading training matrix, we have been working closely with leading training centres in our key seafarer source locations for over a decade now to further develop new talent into competent maritime professionals, namely in the Philippines, Ukraine, Russia, as well as in Germany and the EU.
Our approach with a structured Cadet Training Programme and the Continuous Proficiency Development provides trainees with a well-established, dedicated and assured career path, and allows us to be closely engaged with their progress to help better nurture their development.
Essentially this entails the selection, further education and training of university and college maritime students. Importantly, it includes sea-going work practice, thereby fully preparing trainees for their job at sea, and providing the invaluable, and necessary, experience to help advance in rank in good time and reach levels of command much earlier.
First, cadets must express their willingness to join one of our programmes by completing an application. A pre-selection is then done by the respective academy, based on academic results in accordance with our strict criteria. Cadets must then undertake various tests, including psychometric, as well as our own specific tests in each respective maritime field, before qualifying for a final round interview stage.