Sponsors
Everyone accepted for training will be sponsored by one of our client companies.Wherever possible, these Ship Owners and Managers will aim to offer full time employment, on successful completion of the training programme.
All seagoing uniforms and safety clothing will be provided by the sponsor.
Africa Express Line Ltd operates refrigerated vessels between West Africa and Europe. The ships carry a range of perishable goods which are kept frozen or chilled for transportation.
Type of Company: Deep Sea
Length of Tour: 4 months approx
Trading Area: West Africa to Europe
Website: www.africaexpressline.com
Formerly known as Ocean Bulk Carriers, British Marine Plc is an international ocean freight transportation company which operates and owns supermax, handymax and panamax type vessels. The company headquarters is in London and has offices in Mumbai and New Delhi, India.
Type of Company: Deep Sea
Length of Tour: 4 months approx
Trading Area: Worldwide
Website: www.britmarine.co.uk
CalMac's modern fleet provides a quick, effective way of travelling to the islands and peninsulas of the west of Scotland. Trainees selected by CalMac will serve their training under the company name of ‘David MacBrayne Ltd’. The intention would be that each trainee would experience at least one Deep Sea voyage during their training through Northern Marine Mangagement Ltd.
Type of Company: Short Sea
Length of Tour: 6 weeks approx (Short Sea), 4 months approx (Deep Sea)
Trading Area: UK Coast
Website: www.calmac.co.uk
Chevron is a multinational energy corporation headquartered in San Ramon, California, with operations in more than 180 countries. Chevron is engaged in every aspect of the oil and gas energy industry including exploration and production, refining, marketing and shipping. Chevron is one of the world's largest oil companies and takes pride in its people, its ships, and its record of safely delivering product to its customers.
Chevron maintains a modern international fleet, safely carrying millions of barrels of oil, gas, and refined product around the globe each year. As a cadet you'll face complex and stimulating challenges every day and play a vital role in delivering innovative, high-quality support to our upstream and downstream business units. Chevron's cadet training programme not only prepares you to become a future deck, engine, or electro-technical officer, but also teaches you valuable skills that can be used throughout the Chevron Shipping organization. Sailing with Chevron, you'll find a dynamic career backed by a global energy company where you'll gain real world experience and put your maritime skills to the test. All this onboard one of the largest moving objects on earth — a Chevron ship carrying the vital energy the world needs.
Type of Company: Deep Sea
Length of Tour: 4 months approx
Trading Area: Worldwide
Website: www.chevron.com
CLYDE MARINE TRAINING TRUST was formed in 1998 with the aim of providing sponsorships for young people interested and motivated to become Deck or Engineer Officers in the Merchant Navy but who may not otherwise have the opportunity to enter the industry through a shipping company, due to lack of opportunities. Funding is by a levy paid to the Trust by shipping companies for the supply of marine personnel through Clyde Marine Recruitment Ltd.
Website: www.clydemarine.com
Dole UK Ltd operate a fleet of Open Top Reefer Container Vessels. The ships carry a range of perishable goods which are kept frozen or chilled for transportation. The state of the art vessels visit the exotic countries of Costa Rica, Colombia, Honduras and the USA.
Type of Company: Deep Sea
Length of Tour: 4 months approx
Trading Area: Worldwide
Website: www.dole.com
Euroceanica (UK) Ltd is a ship owning company located in the city of London. It operates a fleet of 12 Chemical and Dry Bulk vessels with a further 7 Chemical Tanker new builds being delivered 2008-2010.
Type of Company: Deep Sea
Length of Tour: 4 months approx
Trading Area: Worldwide
Website: www.euroceanica.com
The company's headquarters are located in Aalesund on the North West coast of Norway. In addition we have offices in Aberdeen in Scotland, Melbourne in Australia, Singapore and in Macaé in Brazil. Through a joint venture we also have presence in Angola.
The company's fleet currently consists of 29 AHTS, 24 PSV vessels and 3 subsea vessels. We currently have 2 AHTS vessels under construction at Norwegian shipyards.
In August 2009 the company had 19 vessels in the North Sea, 11 in Brazil, 25 in Australia / Far East and 1 in West Africa
Type of Company: Offshore
Length of Tour: 4/6 weeks approx
Trading Area: Worldwide Offshore Oil & Gas Locations
Website: www.farstad.no
Fletcher Shipping is a UK company which currently owns 2 UK flagged vessels. The vessels are operated in a unique self managed manner and work in the North Sea.
Type of Company: Offshore
Length of Tour: 8 weeks
Trading Area: North Sea
Website: www.fletchershipping.com
“Four Handy Limited” is a bulk-carrier operating company wholly-owned by Italian stock-listed Premuda Group.
Premuda SpA was founded in Trieste (North-East Italy) in 1907 and became a public company in 1917.
“Four Handy Limited” was incorporated in London on April 15th 2008 and operates under the UK Tonnage Tax regime.
Type of Company: Bulk Carriers
Length of Tour: 4 Months
Trading Area: Worldwide
Website: www.premuda.net
Graig employs a global maritime workforce drawn from the UK, China, the Philippines, Vietnam, India and Russia and has offices in Cardiff, London, Shanghai, Hovik and Hong Kong. Graig group staff bridge the gap between sea and shore, between east and west to bring the best in innovation, service and partnership to the global shipping industry.
Type of Company: Deep Sea
Length of Tour: 4 months approx
Trading Area: Worldwide
Website: www.graig.com
Gulf Offshore N.S. Limited serves the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry. The company operates a fleet of 26 vessels, which are predominately Offshore Supply Vessels. It also has specialised vessel types within its fleet, including DP (Dynamic Positioning), AHTS (Anchor Handling) and Safety Standby. The majority of cadet training is fulfilled on vessels operating out of UK ports, but the company also has several vessels working internationally in locations such as the Mediterranean Sea, India, Gulf of Mexico and West Africa. Gulf Offshore has a well established cadet training program in place which is supported by its vessel personnel. The company is committed to offering careers to those cadets who successfully complete their cadetships with it and it continues to support their career development through its paid study leave program.
Type of Company: Offshore Support Vessels
Length of Tour: 8 weeks approx
Trading Area: Mainly North Sea Area
Website: www.gulfmark.com
The company is the owner of the Muirneag which is a Ro-Ro freight ferry trading between Stornoway and Ullapool. ASP manages the vessel allowing the trainees a number of deep sea opportunities.
Type of Company: Harrisons (Short Sea)/ASP (Deep Sea)
Length of Tour: 4 weeks/4 months approx
Trading Area: UK Coast/Worldwide
Website: www.aspships.com
Henty Oil operates three oil terminals, all of which are sea fed. Henty Oil is logistically situated to supply the whole of the UK with both Marine and Industrial Fuels. With a fleet of road tankers, bunker barges and a variety of vessels.
Type of Company: Deep Sea
Length of Tour: 4 months approx
Trading area: Worldwide
Website: www.hentyoil.co.uk
Hover Travel is the worlds longest established commercial hovercraft operator. Operations commenced on 24th July 1965 using an SRN6 hovercraft which carried just 38 passengers. Two modern 98 seat hovercraft now run between Ryde and Southsea, and over 20 million passengers have used the service to date.
Website: www.hovertravel.co.uk
Based in the city of London, Imperial Shipping Ltd are the owners of 15 vessels which includes the fleet of the well known Swedish Orient Line. They use the services of ASP Ship Management for the operation of their vessels.
Type of Company: Deep Sea
Length of Tour: 4 months approx
Trading Area: Worldwide
The Isles of Scilly Steamship Company operates a seasonal passenger service from Penzance, in the English county of Cornwall to the offshore Isles of Scilly, together with a year round cargo service. The name of the company's principal ferry, the Scillonian III, is perhaps better known than that of the company itself.
Type of Company: Short Sea
Length of Tour: 4 Weeks (seasonal)
Trading Area: Penzance to the Isle of Scilly
Website: Not available
Both "K" Line Bulk and LNG companies, based in London, were set up in the early 2000's as an off shoot from "K" Line Europe, fast evolving into two independent companies, within the Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha ( "K" Line) Group. KL Bulk and KL LNG specialise in operation of bulk carriers and LNG gas carriers respectively, on a world wide basis, but predominantly within the Atlantic area. The bulk carrier vessels are mainly modern Cape Size vessels, with some Panamax and few handy and wood chip carriers. The LNG vessels are all modern MOSS type and membrane type LNG vessels.
Type of Company: Deep Sea
Length of Tour: 4 months approx
Trading Area: Worldwide
Website: www.kline.com
Knutsen originates from Haugesund Norway and presently operate one of the most sophisticated and modern fleets of shuttle tankers, chemical tankers and product tankers in the world. Over 25 vessels are managed between their Norwegian Head Office in Haugesund and their UK base in Aberdeen. All vessels have been purpose built to the highest specifications and trade world-wide.
Type of Company: Deep Sea
Length of Tour: 8 weeks approx
Trading Area: Deep Sea
Website: www.knutsenoas.no
Trading as Gearbulk, the Company operates the worlds largest fleet of open hatch gantry craned vessels. These geared general cargo vessels are designed and equipped to transport forest products, non-ferrous metals, unitised general cargo and bulk cargo and trade worldwide.
Type of Company: Deep Sea
Length of Tour: 4 months approx
Trading Area: Worldwide
Website: www.kgjs.no
Latsco (London) Ltd operate a fleet of product carriers and very large liquefied petroleum gas carriers. The company is hoping to expand their fleet in the clean and gas sectors and continue to transport environmentally friendly products.
Type of Company: Deep Sea
Length of Tour: 4 months approx
Trading Area: Worldwide
Website: www.latsco.com
Lomar Corporation is a ship owning and management group and a member of global conglomerate the Libra Group. The company had a fleet of 32 bulk carriers, container ships, reefers, offshore vessels, and LPG, products and chemical tankers.
Type of Company: Deep Sea
Length of Tour: 4 months approx
Trading Area: Worldwide
Website: www.lomarshipping.com
London Ship Managers Ltd currently manages 11 vessels. All of their managed vessels are refrigerated cargo vessels trading worldwide, a number on regular trades between Brazil and the Arabian Gulf, and the Philippines and Arabian Gulf, with the remainder ‘spot’ trading. Cargoes carried range from frozen chicken to most types of fruit, frozen fish and in some isolated cases car carrying.
Type of Company: Deep Sea
Length of Tour: 4 months approx
Trading Area: Worldwide
Website: www.lsmuk.co.uk
Operating as Disney Cruise Line, this company specialises in family cruise vacations with two 2,700 passenger vessels sailing 3, 4 and 7 night itineraries in the Bahamas and Caribbean. With the addition of two larger luxury ships in 2011 and 2012, Disney Cruise Line will offer extended itineraries in the Mexican Riviera, Alaska, the Mediterranean and Northern Europe. Disney Cruise Line focuses on providing exceptional service to guests of all ages. It is the Crew and Officers who make the difference. At DCL, all Crew and Officers of over 50 nationalities receive the respect, encouragement and developmental opportunities that will continue to make them a success and Disney Cruise Line a leader in the cruise industry. Upon successful completion of all training and assessments, a DCL cadet will be offered the opportunity to continue their career with this award-winning company.
Type of Company: Deep Sea
Length of Tour: 4 months approx
Trading Area: Worldwide
Website: www.dcljobs.com
The Maritime Educational Foundation is a registered charity which promotes Britain’s interest across the Maritime field. Its purpose is to inform and raise public and parliamentary awareness of the importance of the UK’s Maritime Industries, commerce and defence through education, training and research. One of their many activities is to help your people to take up maritime careers. The Maritime Educational Foundation has very close links with the Chamber of Shipping.
Types of Company: Various arranged through CMT
Length of Tour: Various
Trading Area: Worldwide
The Fleet presently available for our British cadets comprises of RoRo type, Panamax, Bulkers. Most of the vessels have ice class and can operate within the Baltic all year round. The Ro Ro’s generally run on timecharters to major companies such as DFDS, Finnlines, Stora-Enso and Grimaldi and operates within their Liner services. The bulkers spend much of their time transporting lumber from within the Baltic to the Eastern Mediterranean. The Bulkers find their way back to the Baltic area with a variety of spot or contract cargoes either directly or via North and South America.
Type of Company: Deep Sea
Length of Tour: 4 months approx
Trading Area: Worldwide
Website: www.aspships.com
Norbulk Shipping (UK) Ltd manages a diverse fleet of vessels, VLCC's, OBO's, crude, product, chemical and LPG tankers, bulkers, Ro-Ro's, refrigerated cargo and container vessels.
Type of Company: Deep Sea
Length of Tour: 4 months approx
Trading Area: Worldwide
Website: www.norbulkshipping.com
Northern Marine Management Ltd manage a large fleet which would allow a trainee cross sector training including time on board tankers VLCC's, DP shuttle tankers, Ro-Ro, Ro-Pax, high speed passenger, survey and offshore vessels. Additionally the company has undertaken the management of the sail training association vessel the "Stavros S. Niarchos".
Type of Company: Deep Sea
Length of Tour: 4 months approx
Trading Area: Worldwide
Website: www.nmm-stena.com
The new company operates 3 vessels, the MV Hjaltland, MV Hrossey and MV Hamnavoe on the Orkney and Shetland routes. Trainees selected by Northlink will serve their training under the name, ‘David MacBrayne Ltd’. The intention would be that each trainee would experience at least one deep sea voyage during their training.
Type of Company: Short Sea
Length of Tour: 4 weeks approx (Short Sea)
Trading Area: UK
Website: www.northlinkferries.co.uk
Odfjell (UK) Ltd is a leading company in the global market of transporting chemicals and other speciality bulk liquids alone with providing related logistical services. Odfjell owns and operates parcel tankers in global and regional trade as well as a network of tank terminals
Type of Company: Deep Sea
Length of Tour: 4 months approx
Trading Area: Worldwide
Website: www.odfjell.com
Orkney Islands Council Marine Services manages the fleets of Orkney Ferries Ltd and Orkney Towage Ltd. Orkney Towage Ltd operates azimuth stern drive tugs for berthing tankers at the Flotta Oil terminal and carries out coastal towage. Orkney Ferries Ltd operates the passenger Ro-Ro service between the islands of Orkney. Deck Officer trainees will be primarily assigned to Orkney ferries and Engineering Officer trainees to the tug fleet but there will be opportunities to for all trainees to sail in either fleet. Where possible it is the intention that each trainee would be able to experience at least one deep sea voyage during their training.
Type of Company: Short Sea
Length of Tour: 3 - 4 weeks approx
Trading Area: UK Coast
Website: www.orkneyferries.co.uk www.orkneyharbours.com
P&0 Ferries currently operate a fleet of conventional ships and one fast ferry between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The company operates routes between Northern Ireland and Scotland and between Portsmouth and Bilbao.
Type of Company: Short Sea
Length of Tour: 6 weeks approx
Trading Area: UK
Website: www.poferries.com
Red Funnel Group is an organisation operating primarily in the transport sector, with sites at Southampton and on the Isle of Wight. The company employs around 500 people across 2 main divisions (ferries and road transport).
Website: www.redfunnel.co.uk
Currently operate a fleet of cruise ships sailing to more than 160 destinations worldwide.
Type of Company: Deep Sea
Length of Tour: 4 months approx
Trading Area: Worldwide
Website: www.royalcarib.com
The company operates 6 platform supply vessels (PSV). It has a modern fleet of medium to large vessels. The main office can be found in Aberdeen, Scotland.
Type of Company: Offshore
Length of Tour: 8 weeks approx
Trading Area: Mainly North Sea but with worldwide Offshore locations
Website: www.sbsmarine.com
The fleet consists of 48 fully owned/jointly owned and leased vessels plus 3 vessels under construction (2 in Norway and 1 through Nor Offshore Ltd) in Singapore. 38 of the vessels are operated from the main office in Skudesneshavn and the subsidiary office in Aberdeen. The company's new builds in Norway include a CSV and a LNG PSV, which emphasizes the company's continued focus on the construction service market as well as drilling and development in unsheltered and deep waters.
Type of Company: Offshore
Length of Tour: 8 weeks approx
Trading Area: Worldwide
Website: www.solstad.com
We are a seabed-to-surface engineering, construction and services contractor to the offshore energy industry worldwide. Subsea 7 operates one of the world's most versatile fleets comprising high-specification pipelay, construction, remote intervention and diving support vessels. Our fleet is capable of operating in the world's most challenging environments.
Type of Company: Offshore
Length of Tour: 8 weeks approx
Trading Area: Worldwide
Website: www.subsea7.com
The company manages four small to mid-size luxury cruise ships in Regent Seven Seas Cruises' six-star fleet.
Type of Company: Deep Sea
Length of Tour: 4 months approx
Trading Area: Worldwide
Website: www.rssc.com
From its base in Aberdeen, the Company operates six vessels. Consisting of Anchor Handling Tug Supply (AHTS), and Platform Supply Vessels (PSV), the fleet is currently operating from Aberdeen, Bergen, Stavanger and Heysham (in the Morecambe Bay gas fields).
Type of Company: Offshore
Length of Tour: 8 weeks approx
Trading Area: Worldwide Offshore Locations
Website: www.tricomarine.com
The fleet comprise 5 vessels, 2 bulk carriers and 3 oil / gas tankers. The tankers operate mostly in and around Africa. The bulk carriers trade to the Mediterranean, Brazil and African Coast.
Type of Company: Deep Sea
Length of Tour: 4 months approx
Trading Area: Worldwide
Website: Not available
A subsidiary of UltraPetrol. Operating 3 large PSVs from its Aberdeen office. After successful completion of training the trainee may have the chance to work on any of the vessels managed by Ravenscroft Ship Management.
Type of Company: Offshore
Length of Tour: 8 weeks approx
Trading Area: North Sea
Website: Not available
Vroon Offshore Services Ltd - Aberdeen is one of the leading Maritime Offshore suppliers in the North Sea and has been in the business for over 40 years. At present they have approximately 50 vessels.
Type of Company: Offshore
Length of Tour: 6 weeks approx
Trading Area: North Sea
Website: www.vroon.nl
Western Ferries (Clyde) Ltd operate the short-sea crossing between Dunoon and Gourock. At present they operate 4 vessels with a carrying capacity of up to 140 cars per hour.
Website: www.western-ferries.co.uk
With its headquarters in Oslo, Norway, Wilhelmsen Ship Management operate 166 Ro/Ro (Roll On / Roll Off) and PCTC (Pure Car Truck Carriers). The UK office is based in Southampton.
Type of Company: Deep Sea
Length of Tour: 4 months approx
Trading Area: Worldwide
Website: www.wilhelmsen.com
Zodiac Maritime Agencies Ltd is an international ship management company specialising in the management of cape-size and handy-size bulk carriers; chemical tankers, LPG tankers, container ships and pure car (truck) carriers.
Zodiac manages over 130 ships. An excellent training programme has been introduced with substantial numbers being recruited each year in order to ensure a professional workforce well into the future.
Type of Company: Deep Sea
Length of Tour: 4 months approx
Trading Area: Worldwide
Website: www.zodiac-maritime.com
