East Star Shipping Company Ltd.

East Star Shipping Co., Ltd is a manning company established in the year 2011. The company was founded and has grown up as a result of its founder’s plentiful achievements and experience after his long engagement in the crew manning field at the Vietnam National Shipping Lines (Vinalines) since 1997. During this period he was involved in planning and carrying out the supply of Vietnamese crew for renowned shipping companies, such as, Inlaco Japan, Nissho Shipping Co., of Japan, and Pos Ship Management of South Korea, and Dania Marine of Denmark. Consequently, the company has expansive connections among the crew pool in Vietnam and can easily mobilize good seafarers to meet an order from Principals.

Staffed with highly skilled professionals and competent crewmembers who have extensive experience and expertise in the crew manning agency respect, the company is always available at all times to meet Principals’ crewing needs. East Star Shipping Co., Ltd. lives up to its commitment to serve Principals whenever and wherever they need most efficiently. East Star Shipping Co., Ltd would like to emphasize that providing a perfect service to Principals in the respect of manning agency is our top goal. We commit ourselves to providing fast, reliable and competitive agency service to all Principals without compromising on quality.

The company is now supplying Vietnamese engineers/officers for vessels of Pacific International Lines (PIL) managed by Apex Ship Management Pte., Ltd in Singapore, with our crew working onboard three vessels, namely, Kota Berlian, Kota Berani and Kota Berjaya, which are trading between China and South African area, transporting mostly heavy lift project cargoes. The company is working toward having full Vietnamese crew complements onboard vessels managed by Apex.

SERVICES

Over the years of our work we have formed an extensive database of marine specialists and established close contacts with marine educational institutions and training centers.

Professional approach, responsibility, attentive and friendly attitude to seafarers and ability to solve arising problems quickly are the qualities which distinguish our Company.

We recognize that vessel performance and the management of risk depends upon the effective selection and retention of competent seafarers.

We select qualified personnel to work on a diverse range of vessels including all types of container carriers, dry cargo vessels, bulk carriers. Today, our extensive connections and database of Vietnamese seafarers allows us to react quickly to any requests from Principals.

Understanding the market development tendencies, we are widening our services, giving our Company an opportunity to operate in the tightening conditions of crewing market and the growing competition.

East Star Shipping Co., Ltd offers the following services to its Principals:

Recruiting specialists, namely, officers, engineers and ratings whose experience and qualification comply with Principals' requirements;
Recruiting marine educational institution cadets and graduates for shipboard training and further employment on our Principals' ships;
Checking that candidates have appropriate marine documents in accordance with SWTC 78/95 and those documents are valid for the entire duration of the contract;
Organizing additional training for seafarers;
Executing any documents required by the ship flag state administration;
Assisting in getting necessary visas, drawing up crew lists;
Ordering and arranging tickets using marine tariffs;
Planning schedules of crew changes;
Accounting and payment of wages to ships' crewmembers;
Full crew management.

Working with a high number of companies, we deal with different types of staff management contract every day. Learning many valuable practices from our partners and adding our own experience, we offer true partnership based on our professional approach, deep knowledge of our Principals' business and a focus on their interests.