V. Klimov Maritime Agency

V. Klimov Maritime Agency is one of the biggest in Ukraine the crew manning agencies which was established in 1998. The agency is duly licensed by the Ukrainian Government, its office is duly registered in Mariupol city.

The agency performs all spectrums of services concerning in the crew manning for both the Ukrainian and foreign shipowners. We can propose all kind of services for the owners as follow:
- to prepare the drafts of the wage scale and the budget for any type of the vessel with the Ukrainian crew, the drafts of the Crew manning agreement and the Contract of employment,
- to carry out full crew management,
- to supply all crew or the individual crew members upon crew request of the owners (the operators, the crew manning agencies),
- to arrange the transit visa to the country of crew change,
- to arrange transportation of the crew members to the ports of Black sea or to the nearest international airport,
- to carry out any other requests of the owners.

Our database contains about 1.500 files of the qualified seafarers of all ranks. All crew members are experienced, duly trained and certified in accordance with STCW 78 Amended. All candidates are familiar with the ISM Code, the ISPS Code and agreed with the Drag & Alcohol Policy of our agency. For time being our aim is not to enlarge our database but to improve its quality, to select the best candidates for the ships of our principals.
Our candidates are mainly familiar with the types of vessels as follow:
- the general cargo and the multipurpose vessels (DWT 2.000 - 15.000),
- the bulk carriers ( DWT 3.000 - 70.000),
- the container carriers (till 600 TEU),
- the coasters and the "river-sea" type vessels,
- the oil tankers (DWT 3.000 - 20.000),
- the fishing ships.
Of course, we have the candidates experienced in all types of the vessels but their quantity is not very big. Our motto is: "We do not promise everything, but carry out everything we have promised".

Our crew manning service is free for the owners and the foreign crewing agencies ( it does not forbidden by the Ukrainian legislation). As for the wage scale we can propose the crew for any reasonable salaries including the low-cost crew.

If You are qualified Ukrainian or Russian seafarer -
Although our database is big enough we are interesting in experienced qualified officers of both deck and engine departments, fitters, welders, chief cooks. You must have experience in rank no less 2 years, the certificates in accordance with STCW 78, positive references. Good English is essential.
For your primary consideration as the candidate for the employment please fill our application form in accordance with our requirements as follow:
- your name, family name, place of birth mast be written as in your Seaman's book,
- "Previous sea service" part mast be filled beginning since your last ship,
- do not forget to fill the cell "Minimum salary, $", we shall not disturb you if proposed salary will be less than indicated one. Also please note the application form will not be considered if this cell is empty.
- do not send the copies of your certificates, references, etc. without our request. .

To download our application form please
click here.

N.B. Filling of the application form and entering data of the candidate to the database does not guarantee his employment !
After primary consideration the suitable candidates will be invited to our office for the interview and testing in accordance with our selection system.

If You are Ukrainian or Russian crew manning agency -
You are welcome for co-operation! Although we have had good links with some crewing agencies of Odessa, Kherson, Sevastopol we are interesting in new good partners.