Personnel

Transatlantic must be able to recruit and retain the best ship’s officers and other highly qualified crew members to conduct long-term international shipping operations from Sweden. Accordingly, in addition to comprehensive recruiting initiatives, Transatlantic focuses on company involvement and information, expansion through new offshore vessels with high standards and customized training.

The supply of personnel is of strategic importance for the shipping line and is met by initiatives that make shipping in general and Transatlantic in particular the natural choices.

A ship’s officer training program specializing in marine engineering has been established in the Philippines together with Walleniusrederierna. This is a four-year program and is arranged in cooperation with the Mapúa Institute of Technology (MAPUA) in Manila. Transatlantic has 16 of its own cadets at the institute, and after completing their training they will be contracted for continued work at the shipping line.

Transatlantic is actively involved in the Swedish Maritime Sector’s recruitment drive known as Sjöfartskaravanen (“the Shipping Caravan”) and the Swedish Shipowner’s Employer Association’s project to increase the number of places on maritime education programs in Sweden. One of Transatlantic’s ACL vessels has been adapted for this purpose so that it can accommodate trainees whose goal is to become ship’s officers.