Manning · Shipboard audit · Marine training
Learn · Lead · Sail Beyond
We crew ships and we train the people who sail them. Manning to the STCW standard, shipboard audits carried out by master mariners and chief engineers, and eight online courses covering the competencies a certificate takes for granted.
A training division of Aastranova Maritime OPC Private Limited
About us
We are a manning and crew management agency staffed by master mariners and chief engineers. We put properly certificated people on ships, we audit how those ships are run, and we teach the competencies a certificate assumes you already have. We say what we find and we quote what it costs.
To be the manning agency an owner can rely on without checking the crew list twice. Every seafarer we supply meets the international STCW requirements for ship manning and administration — that standard is the floor we start from, not the target we aim at, and the habits of quality and efficiency we work to are built on it.
Crew management done properly: client care, ethics and professionalism carried by real management policies, real training and qualifications that are genuinely held. The quality of a crew shows up directly in how a ship performs — so we search hard for officers and ratings, select them carefully, and keep looking after them once they have joined.
Our services
Take us on for crewing, for an audit, or for training your people. Whichever it is, the work is done by master mariners and chief engineers, and reported to you straight.
The academy
Examination support, practical shipboard knowledge, value-added modules, rank development and the soft skills a senior officer needs — taught by masters and chief engineers. Plus eight short courses that run online.
Online value added courses
Our team
58+ years at sea between them, on tankers, bulk carriers and container ships. Now teaching, auditing and crewing.
18 yrs at seaMaster Mariner
Eighteen years at sea on oil, chemical and container vessels, and long experience teaching in the maritime sector since. Seafarers come to him for advice on where a career can go and what it takes to get there.
14 yrs at seaChief Engineer
Fourteen years at sea, most of it in the engine rooms of oil and chemical tankers — the ships where procedure is least forgiving.
14 yrs at seaMaster Mariner
Fourteen years at sea on oil and chemical tankers, with deep experience of tanker operation and the certification it demands.
12+ yrs at seaMaster Mariner
More than twelve years at sea on bulk carriers, across the trades and the cargo work that go with them.
Why choose us
Our instructors are master mariners and chief engineers with years on tankers, bulk carriers and container ships. What they teach is what they did.
Every session is built around work a seafarer will do on the next voyage. Participants leave able to do the job, not just describe it.
Our programs lead to industry-recognized certification — the kind that holds up in front of an owner, a charterer and a port state inspector.
We work to international best practice while understanding what Indian officers and ratings actually face — in recruitment, at sea and ashore.
Ranks change, rules change, ships change. We keep the crews we place in touch with the training that keeps them current.
Fleet & operations
Contact us
An enquiry reaches a manager, not a queue. If it concerns a vessel underway, say so and we will treat it as operational.
