Epsilon Maritime Services, Inc.

Crew Manning & Crew Management is our business. We offer services that are tailor-made to our principals' needs and requirements.

Crew Manning
Over the years, Epsilon has developed an extensive pool of over 3500 seafarers in total, 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 shipmanagers endeavoring to establish an excellent working relationship that is to the benefit of our principals and the vessels' smooth sailings.

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 Epsilon Hellas, 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. Epsilon'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:

1. Crew Wages, in accordance with the cover selected and the nationality used
2. Recruiting expenses, inclusive of Visas, PTA collection fees, STCW Documentation,
Medical examinations, Company made uniforms, safety shoes, winter and safety gear.
3. Joining & repatriation ticket expenses and domestic travel expenses for all crew.
4. Crew Victualling Cost.
5. Primary Insurance cover for up to usual P+I deductible
6. Communication charges (Epsilon outgoing) and Bank charges and exchange difference costs for Cash to Master
7. Attendance expenses, including a number of regular visits annually by our staff
(Port Captain or Supt. Engineer) to the ship
8. In-House and CB Training
9. MGA and accounts control
10. 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.

Epsilon Hellas 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.

Worldwide Agencies
Epsilon has developed a network of corporate offices worldwide that are able to provide a good 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 & Ilo Ilo, in The Philippines

• Odessa & Mariupol, in Ukraine

• Novorossiysk, in Russia

Associate offices operate in the following areas:

• Constanta, in Romania

• Crimea, in Ukraine

• Beijing, in China

All Epsilon offices operate under the direct supervision of our Piraeus head-office and are Quality certified. They follow strict selection criteria and computer based programs for the evaluation of our seafarers. Epsilon Hellas Quality Management system is accredited by Bureau Veritas (BV) rules for Crew Manning Offices.

Manning & Management
Crew Manning & Crew Management is our business. We offer services that are tailor-made to our principals' needs and requirements.

Crew Manning
Over the years, Epsilon has developed an extensive pool of over 3500 seafarers in total, 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 shipmanagers endeavoring to establish an excellent working relationship that is to the benefit of our principals and the vessels' smooth sailings.

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 Epsilon Hellas, 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. Epsilon'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:

1. Crew Wages, in accordance with the cover selected and the nationality used
2. Recruiting expenses, inclusive of Visas, PTA collection fees, STCW Documentation,
Medical examinations, Company made uniforms, safety shoes, winter and safety gear.
3. Joining & repatriation ticket expenses and domestic travel expenses for all crew.
4. Crew Victualling Cost.
5. Primary Insurance cover for up to usual P+I deductible
6. Communication charges (Epsilon outgoing) and Bank charges and exchange difference costs for Cash to Master
7. Attendance expenses, including a number of regular visits annually by our staff
(Port Captain or Supt. Engineer) to the ship
8. In-House and CB Training
9. MGA and accounts control
10. 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.

Epsilon Hellas 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.

Training and Quality
The management of Epsilon ever since its foundation strongly considered Training as an integral part of our crewing business. People matter - this is our fundamental belief. Training is very significant for the safety of the vessels, thus we're paying particular attention to the training and upgrading of our seafarers. We operate a dedicated Training & Q.A. department and we make extensive use of Bridge & Engine Simulators and CB training in all our offices.

There are presently two (2) main Epsilon Training Centers ; Veritas Maritime Training Center in Manila, The Philippines and Epsilon Maritime Training Center in Odessa,Ukraine with fully integrated Bridge and Engine simulators while a scaled down Training Center featuring a Liquid Cargo Handling simulator is in operation at our Novorossiysk office in Russia. We also offer ECDIS Specific training programs by Transas, JRC and FURUNO with state-of-the-art equipment and specialized instructors. Veritas Maritime Training Center is the only Training Center in the Philippines offering ECDIS Specific Training by the the Top-3 ECDIS Manufacturers Worldwide. Also Veritas Maritime Training Center offers Plant Maintenance System (PMS) Training based on Microsoft NAVDynamics.

Cadets & Cadet Training
Furthermore, Epsilon through its exclusive contracts with reputable Maritime Academies in the Philippines (PMMA, MAAP, UC) and elsewhere (Novorossiysk) can ensure the supply of Deck & Engine Cadets at very favorable terms; thus actively participating in the shaping up of the future generation of seafarers.

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