June 2020
Guinea crew change; mission accomplished!
A big round of applause to all involved in the recent crew change for our vessels involved in SMT"s Guinea transshipment project, including transshipper Conakry Pearl, barges Cape Verga Pearl I and Cape Verga Pearl II, shuttle vessel Honor, and tugs Stork and Polen. This extensive operation included a chartered flight from Amsterdam to Cape Verde Islands, then a full day's trip onboard transport vessel Kasey to a mid-ocean rendezvous point with our SMT flotilla! Once again, this project could not have been successful without the help of so many individuals: SMT's Crewing and Travel Departments were instrumental, as were SMT’s Marc Smeets, Geerten Vreugdenhil, Jacek Kaszubski and all our colleagues at EMAR Offshore Services. We thank Mark A. van Elzakker, Head Immigration Liaison Office & Border Office in the Netherlands once again for his full support, Bruno Silva of Navex - Empresa Portuguesa de Navegação for his great work as our agent in Cape Verde, and the entire flight crew of the A380 we chartered from SmartLynx Airlines Ltd. Above all, we thank our devoted seafarers who go above and beyond expectations every day for the benefit of our SMT community. Let’s keep up the great work!
SMT Shipping and Carisbrooke Shipping partner with Nautilus Labs for collaboration to optimize fleet performance
(New York, USA / Cowes, UK / Limassol, CYPRUS – January 12, 2020) Nautilus Labs, the technology firm advancing the efficiency of ocean commerce through artificial intelligence, announced their partnership to optimize fleet performance with...
Fleet notice – pandemic update 15.01.2021
Shore leave restrictions in Europe According to the previous fleet notice we decided to suspend shore leave permission in the european countries, where number of infected persons per 100,000 citizens is greater than 100. Below...
SMT launches monthly safety bulletin
SMT has launched a monthly safety bulletin to be distributed to all SMT vessels and shore staff. The bulletin is produced by the Crew Welfare Task Force, an interdepartmental team focused on seafarer health and...
SMT announces dates for Virtual Crew Conference!
SMT’s Crewing Department will be hosting Crew Week 2020, its first webinar-based crew conference, on Week 49, 30 November to 4 December. SMT seafarers and shore staff from around the world will share experiences and...
SMT and BAM/Alufer donate PCR & medical equipment to Guinea
On 6 October, SMT and BAM/Alufer donated a Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Machine to the National institute of Public Health of Guinea (NISP) along with the required medical materials and equipment to ensure accurate diagnosis...
Training day for Guinea senior officers!
SMT senior officers and captains have been perfecting their maneuvering skills using fully manned models at the Ilawa Ship Handling Training Center in Poland. Model vessels are used to simulate all our transshipment vessels in...