Wallem’s greatest strength is our pool of over 6000 regular seastaff. Our manpower planning expertise adds value to your ship’s operations by ensuring that we have the right number, of the right people, in the right place, at the right time, thereby allowing you to concentrate on the technical and commercial areas of your organization.

We recognise that you need capable, competent, well trained, medically fit and highly motivated seastaff on board your ships – Wallem seafarers.

Our belief is that seastaff are our most important asset, in terms of optimizing safety and enhancing shipboard performance. Recruited and selected with great skill and care, trained in our own centres, we give them clear objectives and reinforce this with feedback through our appraisal reporting procedures.

Traditionally, we have employed large numbers of Indian officers and ratings, our commitment to this quality manning source was re-emphasised in 2005 with over a one million US dollar upgrade of our training centre there

We also have our own manning agency in Manila which meets our ongoing supply and quality control needs from that large and very important crew supply centre. From Russia we can offer Ukrainian and Latvian seafarers as well as crews from other Baltic states. We also have a recruitment centre in Constanza, Romania, which we are increasingly utilizing for high quality senior officers.

Chinese seastaff are attracting much interest from Owners today, joint venture with Cosco in Qingdao which ensures that we have control over the quality and training of Chinese seafarers, an opportunity which no other shipmanager presently has. Wallem's initiatives to enhance the English language capabilities of our PRC seastaff has further encouraged interest from Owners particularly for the dry bulk and container trades, and also, tankers.