Management services

A named superintendent is assigned to each vessel and attends her at least twice a year, plus every dry-docking and major repair. Between attendances the ship is managed through a class-approved planned maintenance system, monthly machinery performance review, lube oil and vibration trending, and a defect register that nothing drops out of.

• Dedicated superintendent and minimum two attendances per year
• Class-approved PMS with condition-based maintenance
• Monthly OPEX reporting against bottom-up budget
• Defect and deficiency register tracked to closure
• Survey, class and statutory certificate management
• Spare parts strategy and critical-equipment redundancy review

We recruit, train, employ and pay our seafarers directly through crewing offices and partners in China, the Philippines, Indonesia and Myanmar. Contracts follow MLC 2006 and the applicable CBA, wages are paid on a fixed monthly cycle through a Singapore-administered payroll, and allotments reach families on schedule.

• Direct employment, no labour brokers in the chain
• MLC 2006 compliant contracts, wages and welfare
• Relief dates confirmed three months in advance
• Training matrix, simulator and upgrading courses funded
• Rest-hour and certificate compliance monitoring
• Cadet programme with a documented path to command

Our operations desk handles voyage instructions, laytime and statement of facts, bunker procurement and stem planning, port agency appointment and disbursement control. Performance claims are defended with weather-routing data and noon-report analysis rather than correspondence alone.

• Voyage instructions, laytime and SOF review
• Bunker procurement, quality claims and stem planning
• Weather routing and speed-consumption performance defence
• Port agency appointment and disbursement account control
• Charterparty review support and warranty compliance
• Post-fixture operations reporting to owners and charterers

We place a resident site team at the shipyard covering hull, machinery, outfitting and electrical, supported ashore by plan approval review and maker-list negotiation. The brief is simple: the ship you pay for is the ship you receive, and it is a ship we would be willing to manage afterwards.

• Plan approval and maker-list review before steel cutting
• Resident site team: hull, machinery, outfitting, electrical
• Weekly progress, photo and non-conformity reporting
• Sea trial, gas trial and delivery protocol attendance
• Punch-list close-out and warranty claim management
• Crew familiarisation and first-voyage support

The safety management system is certified to the ISM Code and integrated with ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001. It is deliberately short: procedures that a duty officer can actually follow at 03:00, checklists owned by the person who signs them, and findings tracked to closure with a name and a date against each one.

• ISM certified SMS integrated with ISO 9001 / 14001 / 45001
• 24/7 DPA hotline and annual full-scale emergency exercise
• SIRE 2.0, RightShip and charterer vetting preparation
• Near-miss reporting culture with fleet-wide lessons learned
• CII, EEXI and MARPOL Annex I–VI compliance monitoring
• IMO-aligned cyber risk management for shipboard systems

Spares, stores, lubricants and services are purchased through a controlled requisition workflow with a minimum of three quotations above threshold. Prices are benchmarked against fleet history, and owner nominated suppliers are honoured without margin.

• Controlled requisition workflow with three-quote rule
• Price benchmarking against fleet purchase history
• Owner nominated suppliers passed through at cost
• Per-vessel critical spare inventory levels
• Lube oil, chemicals and gas supply agreements
• Port-by-port delivery coordination and customs clearance

Dry-docking starts twelve months out with a specification built from the defect register, class survey status and the owner's intentions for the asset. We tender to pre-qualified yards, negotiate the repair list line by line and place a project superintendent on site for the full docking.

• Docking specification from defect register and survey status
• Tender to pre-qualified yards with line-by-line negotiation
• Full-time project superintendent on site
• Daily cost, growth-work and progress reporting
• Coating, BWTS retrofit and energy-saving device projects
• Final account audit and warranty follow-up

We support owners in placing hull and machinery, P&I, war risk and loss of hire cover, and we handle casualty response, surveyor appointment, evidence preservation and claim documentation through to recovery.

• H&M, P&I, war risk and loss of hire placement support
• Casualty response and emergency surveyor appointment
• Claim documentation, evidence preservation and recovery
• Pre-purchase and condition inspection reports
• Sale and purchase delivery / redelivery attendance
• Charterer dispute and off-hire claim support