Wilhelmsen Marine Personnel (Poland)

Wilhelmsen Marine Personnel Sp. z o.o. (WMP) is a crewing agency for seafarers since 1993. Throughout those years we have established our first-class reputation, clients' confidence, and stand out in the forefront of the competition. It is possible thanks to localization of our offices; they are in both Polish biggest "maritime" metropolises (Szczecin and Tricity - Gdansk/Sopot/Gdynia) and covers whole seafarer's market. We were previously known as Polish Manning Services (PMS) - the name change is a result of re-branding process in Wilh. Wilhelmsen (WW Group) corporation, which we are a part of. In 2013 we have received MLC 2006 Approval Certificate issued by Polish Maritime Directorate in Szczecin as well as ISO 9001:2008 Certificate issued by Germanischer Lloyd.

Fleet

Years of experience have taught us that we cannot limit ourselves to a specialized group of vessels. We recruit well qualified seafarers for a large variety of dry-cargo vessels (ro-ros, general cargo and timber carriers, bulk carriers, research and specialized offshore vessels) as well as tankers (rude, product, chemical and bunkers). In total it gives an impressive number of over 100 units. Moreover each year we sign over 2500 permanent and short term contracts with seafarers not only from Poland (however they are majority), but also from Scandinavian countries, Ukraine, Russia, Baltic states, Croatia and others.

The way we work

Wilhelmsen Marine Personnel is a manning agent for ship owners and ship managements from Norway (first and foremost Wilhelmsen Ship Management, previously known as Barber Ship Management - the founder and owner of WMP), Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom and other countries. We are not limited to the above, and we source employees for shore-based jobs in shipyards, marine equipment factories, etc. Thanks to our the daily updated and widely spread advertisements in Internet seafarers are able to give us a feed-back on each offer in person as well as by sending an on-line form from any place on the globe.

Objective and values

Our objective is to provide quality assured and cost effective crew management services to internal and external clients. We shall provide a service to our customers in a quality assured and more economical way than the customer could perform such services themselves. It is fully complementary to five basic values that we share within WW-Group: concentrating to the client; provide the office employees the wide freedom to act and take initiative; adopting to every society change; managing own resources in an optimal way; promoting teamwork over individualism. More about WW-Group values you can read here.

Aditional services

We offer full accounting service for internal and external clients including: issuing of monthly statements of expenses/operating cost reports; preparing the bank payments, allotment notes and other relevant documents for wages, allotments, sick wages, etc; travel disbursement to seafarers and others. We also take care of crew's P&I cases. In the middle of 2005 we established a training and testing facility where we conduct specialized training and competence tests for seafarers from our pool as well as for all other interested in.