The renowned shipping and management company Eastern Pacific Shipping from Singapore (EPS) has opened 60 positions on its ships for young seafarers from Montenegro - engine assistants and deck cadets who, after finishing high school, have to complete a one-year sailing practice before passing the exam for obtaining officer titles.
Apart from the fact that high school graduates from Kotor and Bar will get the opportunity to complete their cadetship and assistantships in this way, they also have the opportunity, if they perform well, to get a permanent job on EPS ships.
The opening of this new significant market niche for the employment of our seafarers is the result of the efforts made by the Seamen's Union of Montenegro from Kotor in recent months, which, in cooperation with the Marie Shipping agency from Split, which represents EPS in this region, managed to animate the management of the Singaporean company to this gives the opportunity to a large number of young Montenegrin sailors to start a professional career on its ships.
"This company guarantees a secure job on its fleet after completing a cadetship or assistantship, of course if expectations, attitude towards work and representative behavior are met. This is an exceptional opportunity for all future young colleagues, which will provide them and open up a wide range of opportunities in the future, bearing in mind the fact that these are newer ships and technologies - mostly powered by Dual Fuel drives with clean alternative fuels (LNG, Methanol, Ethanol and second). Considering that ships of this type are the future of shipping, we must emphasize that a cadet or assistant who completes his initial internship on these types of ships, having a huge advantage in the future over his colleagues who did not have the opportunity to encounter such technology during their internship, they announced. are from the Union of Seafarers of Montenegro, adding that they should register their candidacies by the middle of this month.
EPS currently has its own fleet of about forty ships, and by 2028 the fleet owned by EPS will grow to 80 vessels, as numerous new ships have already been ordered in various shipyards in the Far East. By 2030, EPS' own fleet will exceed 100 ships. This company owns or manages ships for the transportation of containers, bulk cargo, classic oil tankers and gas tankers, as well as large PCTC ships for the transportation of cars, trucks and construction machinery.
In addition to its own, EPS also manages ships that are not owned by that company, so currently the fleet they control has over 300 ships with a total displacement of about 31 million tons, and about 6.000 sailors from all over the world sail on them. Their plan is to employ a total of up to 8.000 seafarers, from several markets, in the coming years.
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