The human element

According to the International Chamber of Shipping total seaborne trade is estimated at around 50 trillion tonne-miles a year, constituting seaborne transport by far the most significant mode of trade transport.

Safety is an environmental issue and contributing to a more sustainable shipping requires that safety and care for the environment be placed at the top of our agenda. Acknowledging the significance of this statement, safety and care have been carefully selected to make up for the two of the three distinct pillars of our core values that we have set course to live up to. 

Safety and care make up for the two of the three distinct pillars of our core values that we have set course to live up to.

Life at sea and our champions

Our seafarers play an essential role in the value we deliver to our customers, but more importantly into making sure that operations are conducted under maximum safety.

 

On our part we strive to attract, nurture and retain the best seafarers for our managed vessels. We target to increase retention rate of officers to world-class standards and have spent a considerable amount of time in designing innovative ways to make sure that every seafarer boarding our managed vessels is adequately familiarized with our safety protocol.

Our latest step to tackle this ensures that prior to embarkation all crew members are handed to carry with them a rank-specific, pocket-sized safety handbook that we have compiled for our crews.

This year, for the eleventh time, acting on our initiative to retain and inspire talent on-board, we voted for the best Officer and Rating who served on managed vessels in 2024 based on the following criteria:

  • Commitment to Safety
  • Competence, Knowledge and Skills
  • Positive Influence

In their professional capacities they have both exhibited a strong sense of responsibility for their vessel and the environment.

Officer

Congratulations to our officer Villaflores Andrew (2/O), for being awarded “Officer of the Year 2024”. Andrew Villaflores has served onboard vessels under management for a considerable number of years now and with his hard work, ethics and dedication managed to become a role-model for all seafarers. The decision for his promotion is based on his sincere efforts to promote safety and team-spirit onboard. His career path from A/B to 2/O can be used as a driver for seafarers’ performance onboard IHS fleet.
 
2/O
Villaflores Andrew

Rating

Congratulations to our rating Urma Darylle Jaisel (BSN), for being awarded “Rating of the Year 2024”. By way of consistently developing his work performance and always assisting the rest of the deck crew set a mark for high standard on-board. We congratulate and encourage him to keep moving towards the accomplishment of his most exiting professional aspirations.
 
BSN
Urma Darylle Jaisel

Mental Health At Work

 

 

Prevent work-related mental health conditions through psychosocial risk management which includes using organizational interventions to reshape working conditions, cultures and relationships.

Protect and promote mental health at work, especially through training and interventions that improve mental health literacy, strengthen skills to recognize and act on mental health conditions at work, and empower workers to seek support.

Support workers with mental health conditions to participate fully and equitably in work through reasonable accommodations, return-to-work programmes and supported employment initiatives.   

Create an enabling environment with cross-cutting actions to improve mental health at work through leadership, investment, rights, integration, participation, evidence and compliance.