“It is worthwhile to visit trade union before employment”

Recently, several seamen addressed to the SUR Kaliningrad Territorial Organization (SUR KTO) to make inquiries about the shipowner. And rightly so, because they were interested in the notorious ships "GALILEO" (IMO 8721088), "FRIO SEVEN" (IMO 8215936) and "VERACRUZ" (IMO 7508300), all of them  are flag of convenience vessels. The representatives of  SUR KTO have found out which crewing agency offers the seafarers to work at the  unscrupulous employers.

-The seafarers pointed to the crewing agency “Atlantic Staff”. It is a startup though an ambitious company: it does not has a license yet, which means  it does not have the right to engage seafarers for work on ships under the foreign flags. At present, they are just at the stage of the signing a contract with the fast-growing OOO PKF "Yuzhno-Kurilskiy Rybokombinat". They seek to obtain official  authority to recruit personnel", -  Pyotr Dzendzelyuk, head of SUR KTO Legal Department.

Meanwhile, the director of  “Atlantic Staff” was surprised to the fact that the seafarers referred  to their crewing agency. On the contrary, according to him, their agency do not deal with employment under the foreign flags. However, he promised to find out where these job offers had come from.

Based upon the information from  the web-site, Yuzhno-Kurilskiy Rybokombinat is  really a large, modern and promising enterprise. Its fleet comprises  about 13 vessels that need to be manned with qualified crews.

- It is just one thing that remains unclear:  why don't seamen and fishermen from the Sakhalin region and other  Far-Eastern regions eager to fill the vacancies available? -  Pyotr Dzendzeluk wonders. - It is always worthwhile to visit  the trade union before employment. Of course, we provided the seafarers with the information they had asked for - about the ships and the employers, but  it is ultimately up to them to decide whether  to join the offered vessel or not.

The source: SUR KTO