Crash Course in Advance Crew Management

Course Description

The course is about crew management. Crew management for ships incorporates a variety of activities handled by inhouse crew managers and crew management companies. This includes the sourcing, recruitment, selection, deployment, scheduling, training/upgrading programs, and on-going management of seafarers engaged on vessels under crew management contracts, special circumstances management (like COVID) and administrative aspects. While operating in a very volatile shipping industry, irrelevant of the handling size each company / operator is dealing with, at the same time is very important to understand the core elements that compose, modify and classify a balanced crew management. Crew management is the combination of balanced time management and seafarers’ availability, good knowledge of all updated crew related conventions, soft skills and happiness achievement, in an era where the most skillful should be retained and the new comers should be upgraded. All the above mentioned issues, along with restrains of finance (i.e. budget), will be discussed accordingly.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this crash course, the participant will be able to:

To acquire fundamental knowledge of the crew related conventions and their characteristics;
To synthesize a recruitment policy fully streamlined with the vessel’s safe manning requirements;
To evaluate the risk exposed on a crew change in line with the overall financial planning;
To develop seafarers employment and recruitment techniques; and
To formulate proactive mechanisms in order to retain, train, evaluate and upgrade skilled seafarers.

Modules & Materials

The course consists of four session. Session 1: Introduction to Crew Conventions Session 2: Crew Management Operations Session 3: P&I cover, Financing and Crew Budget Issues Session 4: Happiness Index, KPIs & Soft Skills

Course Video Presentation, Check your Knowledge Questions, Course Instructor to reply to questions, and Course Forum

Course Instructors

Artemios Alifragkis

HR and Crewing

Duration & Certification

Note:

There are no fixed course start dates. You can start your course ANYTIME, from ANYWHERE adapting the duration of the course to your needs.
The duration for the Crash Course on Advance Crew Management is 125 Minutes in total, (with Session 1: 39 minutes, Session 2: 30 minutes, Session 3: 22 minutes and Session 4: 34 minutes.)
There is a time limit of access to the course of 3 months in order to fulfill this course starting from the time of your registration.

Upon successful completion certification of attendance is provided by the World Maritime Academy.

Entry Requirements

The Crash Course on Advance Crew Management is open to those willing to acquire knowledge on the specialized shipping topic, irrespective of educational background or experience.

$220.00

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Duration: 2 hours
Number of modules: 4
Fees: $220
Language: English
Course Tools: Course Video Presentation, Check your Knowledge Questions, Course Instructor to reply to questions, and Course Forum