
Passenger Ship Management
We also provide crew management for passenger ships. Our passenger ship pool covers a wide range of positions: hotel and steward departments, plumbers, ratings, officers, engineers and doctors.
Our crew are professional, with formal education and training to international standards. To supply properly qualified seafarers, we screen and select every candidate carefully before deployment.
You get the right crew at an efficient cost.
As part of ship management, we deliver cost-effective, efficient crewing for our principals, drawing on a dedicated pool of seafarers for many vessels.
Our seafarer pool
Professional seafarers placed on a wide range of vessels.
Scope
As crew manager, we handle the full scope of crewing work our principals require, so that every vessel is manned by qualified, well-trained officers and ratings.
- Recruitment and selection
- Union relations and long-term planning
- Assessment of competence and English ability
- Crew pool management
- Training and education
- Safety instruction courses
- Pre-employment checks
Recruitment & Selection Process
We verify that each seafarer’s certificates of competency are genuine and valid, and that sea-service records are true and correct.
We assess the authenticity and adequacy of certificates of competency against the requirements of the STCW Code.
We make sure every crew member is trained to the principal’s requirements.
- Medical examination to international requirements, including a full physical examination, chest X-ray, vision and hearing tests, and hepatitis, drug and alcohol, and HIV tests
- Seafarer employment agreement
- Flag state documents and certificates
- Travel arrangements
- Visas for every destination, including US crew visas through the US seafarer visa program in which ABM takes part, plus tickets and local transport
- Processing of all required documents
- Immigration formalities
Evaluation based on crew appraisals from the Master and the principal, with upgrading arranged where needed.





