About us

Shippingcrews.com™

Choose your crew, your way

Welcome to shippingcrews.com™ we thank you for your visit and kindly present you with the first and most pioneering ship manning e-commerce portal. An online database designed and aimed at providing ship managers and agents with top quality crew and manning resources from all over the world.

Our online database is full of information on available seafarers who are qualified and available for your recruitment needs. The seafarers entered in our system are from all over the world and are not limited to one geographical location. Further benefits of the shippingcrews.com online seafarer database are:

• Faster response time of available seafarers for given positions.
• Ability to communicate and keep track of more then one manning agent.
• Ability to also find qualified officers from OECD.
• Easier to keep track of the crew market.
• Cheaper method for finding and employing crew.
• Option to post job offers on the site.
• Site content full of crew related Resources, Regulations and News.

Our database is easy to use and even easier to navigate through. Our search results will provide you instantly and at the click of a button with a variety of seafarers so you can compare and make your choice. The unique part of shippingcrews.com is that it appreciates the work and expertise provided by manning agents in the Far East and Eastern Europe and does not try to bypass them but rather it chooses to use their services as well as give them the opportunity to advertise their firms capabilities and to show ship owners who are the most reliable and best quality service firms in the market.

Even though we co-operate with manning agents we also allow seafarers to be able to enter themselves directly into the system if they feel that they do not need the services provided by manning agents. Therefore companies who wish to avoid or bypass agents can choose to recruit people who are not assigned to manning agents. This way we allow both employees and employers to use the system which ever way they feel better suits their needs.

Shippingcrews.com was designed by Pontoporos Shipping and trading Ltd. as a tool for both shipping owners and manning agents in order to assist in the communication between them and help them solve the growing problems faced in the manning of ships today. Pontoporos was established by a group of highly experienced managers, some of which have been involved in the shipping industry since the early sixties.

This experience potential goes in areas such as bunkering, technical ship management, crewing and even marine technology in countries like the UK, Saudi Arabia and Gibraltar. Our long experience has allowed us to see these problems first hand and thus has left us with a deep understanding of how they affect companies and how it is possible to solve them.

Pontoporos shipping and trading has been involved in the traditional method of crewing ships for some time now while it has been developing its online vision. We have now moved onto the next step which will allow us to take our services into the digital age and thus offer a better service to both our current and future clients. We hope we can provide you with the exact tailored demands of your business so as to always be your first choice. We always appreciate your support and trust, and in exchange we guarantee you our 100% commitment to serving your needs.

Please feel free to navigate through our site in order to get a feel for yourself of what the future of ship crewing is. If you wish to enjoy these benefits or would like to give our service a try for a month please register by following the link above. Our membership starts at less then 80 €* per month for full access to our site. Also on offer through our site is the opportunity to assemble small repair teams for short term contracts as well as assistance in finding highly experienced office staff to help you manage your fleet better.

For more information don't hesitate to contact us

* 80 € per month is for our 1 year subscription option. For other membership options and/or further pricing information refer to our services section on our site.