Omikron Crew Management

Omikron Crew Management, a fully owned subsidiary of Epsilon Hellas, is solely dedicated in offering Quality Crew Management and Training services. Epsilon Hellas is today managing more than 300 vessels of all types and sizes.The aim to establish Omikron at Turkey is to open a gate for quality Turkish officers to work onboard our managed fleet and also to serve Turkish shipowners in order to meet their crew requirements from various nationalities that we offer.

Omikron is a fully computerized enterprise offering round-the-clock service. Our company’s personnel have a proven track record at sea and ashore and are committed to offering professional consultancy and solutions on all matters related to Crew Management and Training. Regardless of the volume of our business, one can always expect our dedicated, personal attendance and unparalleled quality service
World Wide Agencies

Epsilon has developed a network of privately-owned corporate offices worldwide that are able to provide a wide selection of multinational crew for our principals, depending on their type of vessels, trading routes, specific requirements and budgetary limitations.

These offices are located at the following cities:

Manila, Cebu, Davao & Ilo Ilo, in The Philippines
Odessa & Mariupol, in Ukraine
Novorossiysk, in Russia
Constanta, in Romania

Associate offices operate in the following areas:

Crimea, in Ukraine
Beijing, in China

All Epsilon and Omikron offices operate under the direct supervision of our Piraeus head-office and are Quality certified. Omikron Quality Management system is accredited by Bureau Veritas (BV) rules for Crew Manning Offices.

Crew Manning

Over the years, Epsilon has developed an extensive pool of seafarers, at any one time. Strict recruitment and selection criteria ensure the supply of experienced and qualified personnel. Furthermore Epsilon’s own Training centers, see to the continuous upgrading and enhancement of our seafarers’ skills and qualifications. At the same time the attendance paid to our seafarers and their family needs has earned Epsilon an enviable reputation and one of the highest retention and loyalty ratings of the industry worldwide.

Based on third party management, the level of our engagement may vary from just selecting a single seaman under our basic Crew Manning scheme up to the selection of a full crew and their dispatch. Epsilon is working in close synergy with the shipowners and ship managers endeavouring to establish an excellent working relationship that is to the benefit of our principals and the vessels’ smooth sailings. And now Epsilon is bringing this vast experience to Turkey with Omikron Crew Management to serve the Turkish officers and shipowners.
Crew Management

Our all-inclusive Crew Management scheme provides to the ship manager/owner all those time consuming operations related with the selection and deployment of seafarers. Under this scheme Omikron CM, in close co-ordination with all our company’s departments (Crew, Marine Travel, Agency, Training, Accounts etc), simply takes care of all the matters that are related with the human resources side of a vessel. Omikron’s job starts well before a seaman joins the vessel and usually goes on long after he’s back ashore. It’s an ongoing process as there are debriefing procedures to be followed and various training and upgrading courses to be attended by our seamen, necessitating from our part continuous planning and development.

Our principals under this scheme receive at the end of the day a computerized update of the vessel’s crew movements for their records, while full reports on the crew performance are submitted to them on a regular basis.
Outline Of Services

Our Crew Management scheme works under an annually agreed fixed monthly lumpsum amount, and is generally inclusive of the following items:

Crew Wages, in accordance with the cover selected and the nationality used
Recruiting expenses, inclusive of Visas, PTA collection fees, STCW Documentation, Medical examinations, Company made uniforms, safety shoes, winter and safety gear.
Joining & repatriation ticket expenses and domestic travel expenses for all crew.
Crew Victualling Cost.
Primary Insurance cover for up to usual P+I deductible Communication charges (Epsilon outgoing) and Bank charges and exchange difference costs for Cash to Master
Attendance expenses, including a number of regular visits annually by our staff (Port Captain or Supt. Engineer) to the ship
In-House and CB Training
MGA and accounts control
Management Fee

Under this comprehensive scheme and as there’s no need for the Principal to retain a fully fledged crewing department, the benefits are that of better control, minimal capital expenditure and improved availability and retention ratio of officers and crew in general.

Omikron can also arrange for the deployment of Repair Teams or Gas Free Teams. These teams of well-trained professionals can tackle specific jobs on a short or medium term contract period.