Liepaja Trading & Shipping Agency Ltd

Liepaja Trading & Shipping Agency Ltd is located in North-eastern part of Europe, in Latvia, in the port city of Liepaja.

LTSA was established in 1994, as crewing and ship supply company by Mr. Vadims Jeronins, who has been company’s managing director ever since.

Since 1995 the core business of the company was crew manning services and since then it’s been developing business relations with various shipping companies in Europe and now the company is recognized as one of the reliable and professional Crew Management Service provider in Baltic States. The Company now employs seafarers from Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Estonia, Serbia, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Montenegro, Romania, Czech, Nigeria, Ghana and Poland and enjoys a stable growth and in numbers of more then satisfied clients.

Since 2014 LTSA operates its own general cargo vessel with the gross tonnage 851 t and provides full range of general cargo shipping services in the Baltic Sea and North Sea.

LTSA providing shipping solutions with the highest customer service standards.

The exceptionally high quality and reliability of our transportation services and crew manning services create lasting values for our customers, giving us excellent prospects for balanced growth.

Crew Management

We undertake the full scope of Crew managing operations required by our clients. Combination of professionalism, efficiency and speed allows us to ensure that we are always in the position to supply our clients with qualified and well-trained officers and ratings. We perform all crew-related functions including:

Reference checks on crew
Applicant screening
Recruitment
Maintenance of personnel records
Grievance and disciplinary procedures
Redundancy situations
Union negotiations
Arranging travel and crew scheduling
Medicals
Provision of training courses / training records
Payroll duties
Statutory reporting
Reporting to Clients

Our Crew Management Services with its exclusive approach and flexibility is designed to relieve the Ship Owner / Manager of any workload connected with the manning of vessels. LTSA is independent crew managers with necessary experience to handle the needs of our clients needs in professional and cost efficient manner.

We offer services that Maritime industry requires and expects.

With highly qualified and well-trained personnel both ashore and at sea LTSA can meet new challenges and explore new opportunities.

Crew Manning

We at LTSA are happy to do what we do best, either we supply single crew or whole crew, the quality of our services is constant.

Our services include, but not limited to:

Recruitment of qualified crewmembers or on-shore personnel
Tests for English communications skills.
Coordination of the entire hiring process for new and rehired marine crewmembers
Certificate verification, physical examinations and drug & alcohol tests, etc;
Briefing of contract requirements and client rules and regulations prior to joining;
Necessary travel arrangements;
The fastest response to staffing needs especially on the unexpected occasions.
Maintenance of accurate vacation/rotation schedules.
Maintenance of proper files and check lists on all candidates and employees.
Collection of performance reviews on all shipboard personnel.

LTSA pays great attention to close control of the recruitment procedures, and that ensures only suitably qualified personnel are supplied to the clients vessels.
With a good reputation in the market, skills, energy and devotion to fulfill a request of the Client, our staff is always happy to assist in finding the right specialist.